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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-06-06
TIE POSTAL INQUIRY.
Members of ii F'"lctI" Firm Suspected
of GoHipiicit! in .;IIeve,i Crooked
Practices of NI;ci,cn,

Washington. June 3.-rhe yo-be-
tweens who. il is alleged. figured in
transactions which led to the arrest of
August w. Machen. the former general
superintendent OF the free delivery
system. are understood to be members
Ola firm in Toledo. o.. the former home
OF Mr.. Marhrn. Although ii is known
au1horlta'ively hat there are several
parties whose arrests may be decided
on at any time. Postmaster General
Payne said Tuesday night HAT so far
as he is advised no Immediate arrests
are in CONCENTRATIONS.
Postmaster General PAYNE some
weeks ago hoped that he would be able
to make at least Il preliminary report
to President Roosevelt ON his return
TO Washington. but to, Investigation
has extended so much more widely
than was Originally contemplated and
the end is .Ir1 so far If that no formal
statement AT his inc is likely,
Though soon after the PRESIDENTS re-
turn Mr.. Payne will report 10 him in
formerly ON the work that he has done,
Lady Somer,ct tneirrSocs Operation,
Lnn@"n june 3. Lacy Henry Somer-
set. win" has been dangerously i'll from
rupi u"e OF tn" bowels has Undergone
an operation and will be Unable to at
trnG the convention of the Worlds
W"m'n'S Christian Temperance union,
at Geneva. Switzerland, June Q. II de-
veloprd Tuesday hat Lady Henry SOM
erse1 was superseded in the presidency
of the National British Women's
Temperance a. association because She
advocated municipal ownership of pub
lie houses
The Newark journal., 1903-10-16
GERM THEORY.
No Microbe Discoverable for Certain
 Contagious Diseases.

The germ theory as an explana- tion of contagious diseases has occasionally met with set backs. There have been communicable diseases in which it was admitted that no microbe could be found. For instance, says an exchange, a disease of the tobacco leaf. The juice of the sick leaves could be made to infect other leaves, and the yirulence of the juice remain many months intact, yet no cul. ture could be made from this juice, nor was any microbe visible. Again, in case of infectious dis ease among horses, known as horse sickness. While the blood serum of an infected horse is ca pablo of transmitting this disease to any other horse, no micrObc could be found. Neither could any culture be made from the blood serum.
 The supposition that these mi. crobes are so small as to be invisi. ble under the microscope is one way of accounting for this. Another way is that the contagion existed i'll soluble form in the fluid (contagium vivium fluidium).
 If we would lay aside all Latin phrases and circumlocution. and just be frank with each other a few minutes, we would very soon reach the conclusion that each one of us knows little less than the other about the matter, and that all of us put together do not know enough to hurt us any.
The Newark journal., 1903-10-16
CowBIRD'S STRANGE HABITS.
Builds No Nest and Does Not Rear
 Its Own Family.

Its Own Family.
 The cowbird is black and little smaller than the red winged black bird, says Country Life in Amer ica. There are three species, two of which-the common and red eyed..migrate to our northern states and are found associated together. The male of the common cowbird has a head and neck of deep wood brown, while the red eyed is wholly black and very lus trous. The females are smaller than the males and duller in color, although the red eyed female is quite black.
 The bird receives it's name from it's association with cows, beside which it feeds, snatching up the insects that are disturbed by their heavy tread. About half a dozen usually attend a single animal or a bunch of cattle, part of which may be of one species and part of the other. Indeed, the two asso ciate together as peacefully as though they were of the same spe, ies.
 The most serious indictment against the cowbird is that it builds no nests and does not rear it's own family. It's eggs are laid Tn the nests of greenlets, wablers, finches and other blackbirds, most of which are smaller than itself. Of the first five redwinks' nests examined in 1902 four contained the eggs of the cowbird. The sum. mer warbler was one day found burying the detestable egg in the bottom of her nest. together with one of her own. Two orchard orioles nests, not 50 feet apart. each contained the egg of the para site, probably of the same breed.
The Newark journal., 1903-10-16
Thief's Kiss.

A magistrates clerk has been known to have his tie-pin stolen while in court, and one in Birming. ham a few years ago lost his coat in this way; but a more remark able example, perhaps, of a thief's cleyerness under the very eyes of the police was that of the burglar at Clerkenwell, who managed to conceal two diamond rings while the police were searching him, and passed one of them to his wife in the cells while the police were looking on. The rings were under his tongue, and one of them passed from his mouth to his wife's when he was kissing her good-by.
The Newark journal., 1903-10-16

been ordered.
 Mrs. Dwight l.. Moody, widow of the famous evangelist, died at Ter home in East Northfeld, Mass, on the 10th inst.
 Three members of the St. Louis police force were found guilty by a jury of shooting craps while on duty and fined $10O each.
 On the 9th inst. the heaviest rain fall in the the history of New York City flooded the streets and de- stroyed thousands of dollars in property.
 Over 2,000 non-union miners are now employed in the Cripple Creek district, and the strike which was declared about three months ago has been a failure
 Thomas r. Ward, vice president of bank at Sioux City, la, plead cd guilty of embedding $30,oo0, and escaped with a jail sentence of thirty days.
 The last quarterly dividend de- clared by the United States steel trust was only 1 3-4 per cent, just half of that declared quarterly heretofore.
 George Formon and C. J. John son, federal officials stationed on the island of Mindanao, P l., whose accounts are under investigation, took S6,oo0 of the government funds, seized a steamer and started for Barneo. A steamer has been sent to intercept the daring fugi- tiyes.
 The trustees of the estate of Mrs. Maybrick, the American woman now in q British prison serving q life sentence for the murder of her husband, are staid to have failed to account for about ST 1000 of the funds. The original estate, com posed of lands located in Virginia, West Virginia, Illinois and Ken lucky, is valued at several millions. Mrs. Maybrick will be granted a pardon next year and will at once return to this country 10 claim her property. This has been one of the most noted cases in the criminal his tory of the world. Her husband, an Englishman, died from arsenic poisoning and after sensational trial his young American wife was convicted and given life sentence. Her friends have been untiring Ill their efforts to prove her innocence and secure her release, and have been rewarded with the promise that she shall go free next July.
 An increase in the death rate of the army from 1891 per 1000 in 1901 to 15.49 per 1000 Ill 1909 IS shown in the annual report of Sur geon General R. NJ. O'Reilly for the fiscal year ending June 30. This increase Is attributed to cholera, which caused 3.54 deaths per 1000. 4 slight improvement appears III the admission rate for disease and injury, which declined from 1s91.5 per 1000 in 1901 to 1s15.5f per 1000 in 1909. Gen. O'Reiiiy, speaking of the abolishment of the army canteen, says: Ut Is lmpos- sible not to attribute a large part of the steadily increasing venereal disease of the army to the loss of the canteen, where the soldier, II he so desired, could get his beer throughout the month, but was not subjected to the temptations to in- temperance and vice now attendant upon the expenditure of full months pay at the low resorts in festing the outskirts of our military reservations.
 A gang of blacLmailers recently notified officials of the Northern Pacific that unless a certain sum of money was left for them at a desig- mated spot on given date, that I1. ..-4. x,,o,,lI lo Ioe+ro,,o1
The Newark journal., 1903-10-16
Don't Overdo It.

"know thyself," but don't over. do the thing by being too exclu. siye.-Chicago Daily News.
The Newark journal., 1903-10-16
News of the World


 II. Hacklay capsized and eleven passengers were drowned.
 Over 100 cases of yellow fever have been reported at Laredo, Tex, since the disease made its appear ance at that place about four weeks ago.
 As a result of a we'll organized and partly successful attempt at wholesale delivery of prisoners at the Utah state penitentiary, che prisoner was killed, one guard was shot and wounded and another man was beaten into insensibility and three prisoners were wounded and two others under death sentence cs- capped.
 A Fort Worth, Texas, fire com pany recently lowered the worlds record in making connection for a fire. The contest was to run 290 feet lay 100 feet of hose, total run, 380 feet, make plug connections and get water. The time made was 22 4-5 seconds. Up to last year Kansas City held the worlds cham pionship. its time being 2G seconds, making the run 200 feet, laying 100 feet hose.
 The czar has appointed a commis- sion to investigate the disappear ance of a large share of the huge treasure contained in the so-called Russian war chest. Russia has been always supposed to have an enor- nous store of gold ready for any war emergency. \ sensation has been created in St. Petersburg by the discovery that fully one-half of the treasure has disappeared. Neith- CT theft nor cmbezzlement Is sus- pected, but the ezar Is anxious to discover what has become of the treasure.
 The United States geological sur yey will have parties next year in- yestigating the mining resources of southeastern Alaska, the formation in the Yukon country and the oil deposits in Alaska. If the appro- priation is ample parties will con- tinue the study of the geology of the Nome district and will conduct an investigation of the coal supply of Nome. The Copper river coun- try is also demanding investigation. but 1t is not likely that any work will be done in that district during the coming year.
 The monthly report of the chief of the bureau of statistics of the de- partment of agriculture shows the condition of corn on October 1 to have been sos, as compared with SOL one month ago. 79.6 on Octo- Der l, 1902; 52.1 at the correspond ing date in 1901, and a ten-year av- craze of 7i.7. The preliminary es- innate of the average yield per acre of spring wheat is 1f4 bushels, sGb- ject to revision when the final wheat estimate Is made. The average quality of spring wheat is S5.5, as i compared with Ss.7 one year ago. The preliminary returns indicate an oat crop of about 7S1,000,o0O bushels, or an average of 28.4 bush els per acre, as compared with 34 , bushels a year ago; 25.1 in 1901 and a ten-ycar average of 27.S. The average for quality Is 79.9, against S6.s in 1902, and s3.7 in 1901. The preliminary estimates of the yield per acre of barley is 26.4 bush els, against 29.0 one year ago; 24.7 in 1901 and q ten-year average of 23.S. The average for quality is 85.4, against Ss.3 last year and S9.6 in 1901.
 A cali for a boil weevil conven- ton, to be held at Dallas, Texas November ,, has been issued. The object is to discuss means of fight ing the cotton boil weevil, which
Middletown transcript., 1903-11-21
to go. I only regret one thing.
Whot ia khot9 che ocbad

10 go. only regret one thing.
What is that? she asked.
One thing besides the loss OF yourself, |
should say, he replied; and that is, that
you will be compelled to lose this place,
of which you seem SO proud and fond.
Yes, she said thoughtfully, unless we
came to terms, and so made an arrange
ment which would save the property.
Our marriage is the only arrangement
possible for US to make, he answered.
Yes, of course; that was what I meant,
she said coolly.
Gladys! he exclaimed.
Pray do not excite yourself, she said
coldly. think there can be no doubt
that our uncle made very awkward and
a very foolish will.
Exactly, Gerard agreed. He would
have agreed to any remark she chose to
make at any time; and just now he was SO
bewildered that he could not think at all.
So, for lack of anything better to say, he
said, Exactly.
Yes, it was very foolish, she continued
taking no heed of his interjectional re-
mark; and, in a certain degree, am to
blame for it.
How was that?
Never mind. she answered quickly. I
need only tell you that I do, to certain
extent, consider myself to blame for it;
and therefore am willing to do what |
can to make amends to you.
I beg you will not annoy yourself for
me, he said eagerly.
Oh, well-with quick sigh-I too think
it a pity for the property to be lost, though
doubtless the hospitals would make better
use of it than we should!
We! 1t was wonderful how that simple
little word reused the almost expiring
hope in Gerard's heart.
Then what do you propose? lie asked.
l think it is not for me to propose, she
replied, smiling slightly. However, if
you like, will marry you.
Gladysl he cried again.
On one condition, she said quickly.
Yes?
That is that no word of love is ever
spoken between us.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK
Middletown transcript., 1903-11-21

stations 10 80 a m 6.1O p m week days. Return.
ing train leaves Franklin City $40 a. r. and
I.5S a. m. week days.
steamer) l.30 and 10 p. m. week days Return.
ing leave Chincoteague l0.45 q. M, a d $50 D,
m, weekdays.
Leave Harrington for Georgetown and Rebo.
both at 1925 q m ,6.l0 p. M, week days; 40 q.
m. saturdays only. Returning. leave Reho.
both 6.3S a. m and LIS d. m. week days.
lO.30 p. m. Saturdays only.
Leave Harrington for Berlin, 10 SO a. m. and
6l0 p. m. week days. Returning, leave Berlin
6.56 m and l258 p. m. week days.
Leave Massey for Chestertown and way sta
tions 9.59 2. m. and 5.33 p. m. week days.
Returning, leave Chestertown 7.l8 a. m, and
2.35 p. m, weekdays.
QUEEN ANNE 4 KENT R. R-Leave Townsend
for Centreville and way stations Q 80 g. ,,,., and
5.Of p m, week days Returning, leayr Centre
Vile 7.46 a. m. and a. p. M. weekday
DELAWARE CHEsAPEAKE R. R.-I.esve Clay
ton for Oxford and way stations 9.43 u m an
6.l7 p. M, week days Returning, leave Oxforu
6 d a M. and ~ p. M. Week-days.
CAMBRIDGE & SEAFoRD R. R-Leaye Seaford
for Cambridge and intermediate stations II Is a
m and 6.46 p. m. weekdays, Returning. leave
Cambridge 700 am. and 2.32 D. m. week-days
CoNFECTI0N.-At Porter, with Newark and
Delaware City Railroad. At Townsend, with
Queen Anne's & Kent Railroad. AT Massey.
for stations on Baltimore & Delaware Raw
Railroad At Clayton. with Delaware & Chesa-
Maryland Virginia Railroad. AT Seaford. with
Cambridge 3 seaford Railroad. At Deimar,
with New York. PHILADELPHIA Norfolk.
w. w. ATTERBURY. General Manager.
J. r. WOOD, PasaenRer Traffic Agent.
GEo. W. BOYD, Gen Passenger Agent.
Middletown transcript., 1903-11-21
~ RAILROAD.

Schedule in effect May II, 1903.
All trains illuminated with Pintsch light.
~ Express trains.
I ains leave Wilmington, Delaware A venue
NEW YORK, week days, t5s6, 1910. ITO. 1S
tIO.55, p m: sundays, t5sS ia ), ills, a. IN. H.,
1880. t5.l9, (koyal Iimi ed), t7.42, floss p m
oPHlLADELPHIA, wees days. t5.26, 80.
fI;ss lso' + set4.5s, isis iRosa al imiicdj ,:62s'
ts4o: tloa8, q .s5 m t3.3o iso, t5.is, (Royal
Chester week days. $50, tt45, 40. 1902 1910.
tl0.5s, lO.57 u. m; ii 2' o. ass 6.22 t6.4C. Il A.
tin-53 H., m. 81 sundays, 20, ss4; ta.4O. tlo.5s
m Il22I tbs, t3.5O f5.ls p m tkoyal Limiledl.
Sundays, 2Oa m; 1870 p: m.
tape May lay and Ocean City, week days, 1915
Sea Isle City. week days. t6.4i a. m; IL 80 p
M: Sundays, L i.26 r. ni.; t.: 10 p. IN.
IS Ralti%9se ,s and Washing h week days LIB
lRnyal l,imiird). ts0i, ITO 10 p NJ. sundays,
t4.ls, IS: l6a, M. II z. t22i ts4o. 1920, (Koyai
Limitedl, IS 0l, tl0.I0 p. III.
Baltimore ana Way stations, week dals 6 25
a. m :2.s0 p. M sundays S.l6 a. n.; q 81 y M.
Newark, week days, Abs y, Is l6 lu.OS i'll 3
am; ~ ~, ;55,6 IA + .0l ITO l0p. m sun
aays' la.'S' iSio, S.l6 a. M t!.22 6S7, i OIL 30
Pittsburg week days, 1915 a m.; IA s., tI0lO
p. m; sunda!s 8, j.; ;l6a. m; t3.40 tlO.l0 p III.
SSi'o.s-N' uaiit, lo.io a. III > ID q u. M.
Cincinnati and st. Louis, is Il a. H.; tl.22,
tl0.lO p. m, daily.
Singerly Accommodation. week DAYS. 625,
i0O8 a. m: 80. Gil p. IN. Suld vs. g. l6 a M;
6.37, II 80 p. m.
Landenberg Accommodation, week days,
8 s.29 a. m; $3.50, 6.O p. m. sundays, 10 Is NJ;
LEAVE PHIiADELPHI for Wilmington,
week days. t3 70, 7.0O, II. Q, s45, ITO. - a n !;
l20, 81. 2l5 1908. II 20. 90 t5s0 t'.is
(Royal Limited), 500, $50, I. a6 1888, n rs p.
m. sundays. tsS5, 7.l5, 7i0. O. 10 a. m; tl2is,
fi:52, 2l5, 0s, $50. IS 4s. (Royul Lin,ited),
Royal Limited" is composed exclusively of
pullman parlor observation and dining cars
NO extra fare except regular Pnlln,an charge.
other line.
H. A. MILLER, Trav. Passenger Agent
Del
D. B. MARTIN. CIV RASSkTT
M. +. l. g. A.
Middletown transcript., 1903-11-21

*on Saturdays arrives at Ocean City at $50
p. m.
Daily. Daily except canday.
'c' Regular stop to receive passengers
"f' Stops only on notice to c. aductor or agel t..
OF on signal.
"g" Connects at Delmar with New York,
Philadelphia & Norfolk KY.
''h" Stops to let off passengers from points
north Of Wilmington and from points on
Maryland Division via Porler.
"i' Connects at Harrington for and from
stations on DEL, Md, q Vir. r. K.
'.j'' Stops to take on passengers for Cape
Charles and beyond.
"k" Stops to leave passengers from Whining.
ton and points north, or take passengers for
points south Of Delmar.
"P' Connects at Townsend for ana from
stations on Baltimore & Delaware Bay Ry.
mi Connects at Porter for Delaware tfty.
"n" Connects at Porter with Newark & Del
aware City Railroad.
20" Connects at Harrington for stations on
d NJ & VRR
..p'' Stops to leave leave passengers rom Midtle-
..r,, Stops to leave passengers from New
York Division.
"t" Connects at Sea rord for and from all
stations on ambridge & Seaford
~" Connects at Townsend for ana from al
stations on the Queen Anne Kent Railroad.
"v'' Connects at Harrington from stations
between Lewes and Harrington.
"x'' Connects at Cla yton for and from al
stations on Delaware Chesapeake Ry.
wv" Connects at Delmer with New York,
Philadelphia norfolk Railroad to and from
all points between Delmar and Pocomoke.
BRANCH ROADS.
DELAWARE, MARYLAND & VIRGINIA r. r.
Leave Harrington for Franklin City and way
Middletown transcript., 1903-11-21

DELAWARE, MARYLAND & VIRGINIA r. r.
Leave Harrington for Franklin City and way
Middletown transcript., 1903-11-21
FRED E. BACH, Register of Wills.
. EG I.TEi.'~ ORDER.


H..
New a>tle t'ounty, del October %, 1903
Upon the application of Elizabeth Marin, ,Ad
ministrat tx of Richard Marin. late of Black
bird HID. in said county. deceased, ii is order
ell and di ected by the Register of Wills thatthe
Observation-Disclosures noLiceof granting
etters of Adniinistrationupon theestate of the
deceased with the date of granting thereof, by
causing advertisements TO be posted within
forty days from the date of such Letters in six
of the most public places of the County of
New Castle, requiring all persons having de-
mands against the estate to present the same,
or u abide by an act of Assembly in such case
made and provided and also cause the same
10 be inserted within the same period in The
Mlddetown Transcript, a newspaper pub.
lished in Middetown, Del. and to be continued
therein two months.
~ Given under the Land and seal of
}SEAL office of the Register of Willis afore-
~ said at Wilmington, in New Castle
County aforesaid, the day and year above
written.
FRED f BACH, Register of Wills.
NoTICF. Notice is hereby given that Letters
ofAdmin .stration were in due formoflawgrant
ed unto the undersigned, ,on the twenty-eighth
day of oct A. -, 1903. and all persons hav-
ing ella inns against the estate of the deceased
must present the same, duly attested. to the
said Administrators, ON or before the TWEEN "
eighth day of Oct, 1891, or abide the Act of AS
sembly in such case made and provided
ELIZABrTH MARIN, Administia airix.
Address Martin b. Burr Esq, Attorney-at-
law, Middletown, Delaware.
Middletown transcript., 1903-11-21

We promptly obtain q. s. and Foreign
Middletown transcript., 1903-11-21
ID EGIsTER'S ORDER.
REGISTER OF WILLS OFFICE,


NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DEL, Sep IA 1903
and William f. Somers, Junior, Executors
of Benjamin +. Lippincott, late of st.
Georges Hundred. in said county, deceased
it is ordered and directed by the Register of
Wills that the Executors aforesaid give
notice of granting Of Letters Testamentary
upon The estate of the deceased. with the date
of granting thereof, by causing advartise-
ments to be posted within forty days from the
date of such etters in six of the most public
place Of the County of New Castle, requiring
all persons having demands against the estate
to present the same or abide by an act of
Assembly in such case made and rovided :;
and also cause the same to be inserted within
the same period in THE MIDDLEToWN TRAN
SCRIPT, a newspap per published in Middletown,
Del, and to be continued therein two months.
~-, Given under the hand and seal of
! SEAL office of the Register of Wills atore-
49, sad. at Wilmington, in New Castle
Comfy aforesaid, the day and year above
FRED E. BACH, Register of Wills.
Not CE-Noticc is hereby given that Letters
Testamentary were in due form of law
granted unto the undersigned, on the nth day
uf September. A. u 1903, and that all persons
having claims against the estate of the de-
ceased must present the same, duly attested,
To the said Executors, on or before the l4th
day of september, 1904, or abide the Act of
4 ssembiy in such case made and provided.
fIIZ METH SOMERS,
w LLIAM E. SOMEnS, JR,,
Executors.
Addrcs-, Francis C. Adler, Esq,
~ Bourse building, Philadelphia, Pa.
Middletown transcript., 1903-11-21
Fine Fruit Trees Offered

Peach Trees, 4c., &c., &c. each.
Plum Trees, l2c., 15c., zoe. each.
Cherry Trees, 35c. each, or So. 90 for ten.
English Walnut Trees, 6Oc. each.
Grape Vines, 10c. each.
Asparagus Plants, e years old, $4.OO
per 1000.
. Crimson Rambler Rose Bushes, 25c.
each.
We have the latest improved varieties
of Peach and Plum Trees in large assort-
ment.
We fumigate all stock.
Will be glad to have you see our nur-
series, and inquire about stock desired.