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Middletown transcript., 1903-08-29
sAssAFRAs

Il is reported that hog cholera is almost
an epidemic.
The Kent and Queen Anne's Fair be-
gan on Tuesday.
Mrs. Herman B. Massey. Of Massey,
visited Sassafras on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John F. Ernest are en-
tertaining Baltimore relatives.
Miss Bessie Merritt, Of Colts, is being
entertained by Miss Mamie Pearce.
The sale Of Mr. Peter Donohoe was
very largely attended on Monday.
We are pleased to state that Miss Lille
Pearce and brother are improving.
Mrs. William H. Spry who has been
quite sick for some weeks is improving.
Miss Mary Dreka left on Monday for a
visit TO Miss Anna Howarth, of Chester,
Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Tarbutton are en-
tertaining a house party of Baltimore
relatives.
Quite a number OF our young folks
held picnic at Dewey Park on Monday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Rosin are enter
tanning a house party Of relatives from
Wilmington.
Mrs. Coverdale and children, OF Will
mington, are visiting her brother, Jacob
7. Shallcross.
Although Wednesday evening was very
stormy there was very large attendance
at Dewey Park.
The family reunion of the Howar5
family was held at shellpot Park, Will
mington this week.
Mrs. Louis Dreka visited her brother,
Mr.. and Mrs. Agustus Mallsburger, of
Massey, on Wednesday.
Miss Alice Dreka visited Miss M. Wal
ters at the home of her uncle, Mr. 7.
Othoson, several days last week.
Mrs. Edward Purnell who has been
visiting Mrs. John F. Ernest for the past
fortnight returned to her home in Smyrna
on Monday.
Mrs. Caroline Johns is entertaining her
daughters, Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Ford, of
Philadelphia, and Mrs. Harry Toul, of
Wilmington.
/ Mrs. Frederick Shibles and daughter,
Miss Virginia, and son, Frederick, Jr.,
are visiting her brother, Mr. and Mrs.
Alexander 7. Laws.
Miss Bessie Pipen, Of Philadelphia,
who has been visiting Miss Alice Dreka
for the past fortnight at "Water Ledge"
left on Wednesday for her home.
We earned with pleasure to-day Of the
great improvement of Mr.. Stephen Boyer,
Jr., one Of our young farmers, who has
been at Ashville, N. G., since June.
Mrs. Frank Sylvester and daughter,
Miss Anna, returned on Sunday in COM
pany with Mr.. Frank Sylvester and Miss
Rosin, of Wilmington, from weeks visit
to her parents near Kennedyville.
Mrs. John Howarth and daughters,
Miss Meta and Miss Anna, with Miss
Mabel Kennedy, all Of Chester, Pa,
who have been visiting her sister, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert S. Griffith, for the past
six weeks returned to their homes on
Monday.
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BOHEMIA MANOR

Miss Sadie Gray spent last week with
st. Georges friends.
Miss Halle Gray, of Elkton, is spend
ing the month of August at her home
here.
Miss Ethel Ellison has been spending
week with Miss Maud Clark in st.
Georges.
Miss Elizabeth Swing is entertaining
Misses Ethel and Mabel Hibbet, of Phi
ladelphia.
Master John Clark, of Pocomoke City,
is the guest Of his grandmother, Mrs.
James Clark.
Mrs. Frank Bloomer, of Philadelphia,
spent last week with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Bloomer.
Misses Laura Rudder and Emily Ben
ford, of Philadelphia, are being enter
tanned by Miss Matte Cleaver.
Mr.. Harry Ribler is seriously i'll with
typhoid maleria, at the home of his
father, Mr.. George Kibler, at Town
Point.
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SECRET SOCIETIES

Middletown Council, No. 2, Jr. o. U. A. M.
Meets every Monday night in McWhorter's
Hall at O'Clock.
Union Lodge, No. S, A. F. & A. M. Meets
first Tuesday of each month In Town Hall.
Good Samaritan Lodge, No. 8, L. .. o. F.
Meets every Thursday night in McWhorter's
Hall at O'Clock.
Damon Lodge, No. IL, K. Of P. Meets every
Wednesday night in McWhorter's Hall at
8o'clock.
Welcome Conclave Heptasophs. Meets
every second and fourth Friday night In K
of P. Hall.
Union Lodge, No. 6, A. o. U. w., meets every
I'd and 4th Tuesday night in McWhorter's
Hall
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- EGISTEk's ORDER.
S REGISTER OF WILLS OFFICE,

REGISTER OF WILLS OFFICE,
New castle County, Del. August Is, 1908.
Upon the application of John III Lester
Executor of Henry s Lester, late of Red Lion
Hundred. in said county. deceased, 1t is order
ed and di ected by the Register of Wills thai
the Executor aforesaid give notice of granting
of Letters Parliamentary upon the estate of the
deceased with the date of granting thereof, by
causing advertisements 10 be posted within
forty days from the date of such Letters in 81 Z
of the most public places of the County oi
New Castle, requiring all persons having de-
mands against the estate to present the same
or abide by an act of Assembly in such case
made and provided and also cause the same
10 De Inserted WItfIIH the saIH6 ptTIOu III i ne
Middletown Transcript, a newspaper pub
lshed in Middletown, Del. land to be continued
therein two months.
49,, Given under the hand and seal OF
SEAL office of the Register of Wills afore-
t@-) said at Wilmington, in New Castle
County aforesaid, the day and year above
FRED BACH, Register of Wills.
NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that Letters
Testamentary were in due form of law granted
unto the undersigned, on the fifteenth day OF
August, A. ID !, 1903 and that all persons hav-
ing claims against the estate of tine deceased
must present the same, duly atLested. to the
said Executor,on or before the fifteenth day OF
August. 1904, or abide the Act of Assembly in
such case made and provided
JOHN II. LESTER, Executor.
Address, Winterthus p. o., Delaware.
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A POSITIVE
GUARANTEED!

guarantee to relieve all nervous head
aches which are caused from eye straining
by any error of refraction, or by weak
condition of the optic nerve, with the
aid of proper glasses. Poor eyesight re-
stored to its normal condition I have
had life time experience with the very
best facilities. Consultation and ex-
animation FREE.
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WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY,
WILMINGTON, DEL.
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL...$1 ,O0O, 900
SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL 49,. 100000

AUTHORIZED CAPITAL.....$1, 900, ,O0C
SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL 49,. 100000
DIRECTORS.
T. COLEMAN DU PONT, HENRY p. SCOTT,
GEORGE S. cAPELLE, PIERRE S. DU PoNT,
A. j. MOXHAM, WILLIAM S. HILLES,
JAMES P. WINCHESTER, HARLAN G. SCOTT.
The Wilmington Trust Co. on July Sth
occupied its temporary offices at 9l5 Mar
ket street, and solicits your patronage.
The Wilmington Trust Co. transacts a
general trust and banking business, acts
as Executor, Administrator, Guardian,
Assignee, Receiver, Registrar, Trustee
and Transfer Agent.
Loans money or mortgage or other
good securities.
Attends to the management of Real
Estate.
Issues letters OF Credit.
ALLOWS INTEREST ON DEPOSITS.
T. COLEMAN DU POINT. Pres.
HENRY p. SCOTT, vice-Pres.
s. ID. TOWNSEND, Treas.
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Ralt;more. Md. Seventy Ninth Annual
Session nf the Sovereign Grand Lodge,
100. F., September 21-26. Tickets
on sale September 10th, 10th and 21st,
good returned until September 2Stb,
inclusive.
For detailed information, write
H. A. miller, 7. P. A.,
Wilmington, Del.
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rIiddletown Directory.
MUNICIpAI oFEIcERs
BANKS

| Prs dent, William r. Cochran; Secretary,
George G. Rowe; Ii. L.. Davis, L.. G. Scatt, w.
j. Wi'son.
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Peoples National Bank.-President, Geo.
M. d. Hart; Cashier, Geo. d. Kelley; Teller
w. G.. Lockwood. Bank Building on East
Main Street.
Citizens National Bank.-PresideEt, Joserh
Biggs; Cashier, John s. Crouch; Teller, +.
Davis. Bank Building on South Broad
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LOCAL CONCENTRATIONS
Volunteer Hose Company, meets 6rst Fri
day night OF each month in Hose House.
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Principal Conventions to be Held in VAR
ious Portions of the United States for
which Special Rates will be in Effect
via Baltimore Ohio Railroad.
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NEWARK, DELAWARE.
LARGE PUBLIC SALE
HORSES, CATTLE and FARM
ING IMPLEMENTS.

Robert Anderson will sell at Public
Salo, 2! miles northeast of Ceciton, Nd,
on the road to Budd's Landing, on
Sassafras River, in the First Election
District, Cecil County,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-16
The uaIE

The wolf came snifing at my door, But the wolf had provided on my track be- And his sniff, snifr. snin at my lodge door
 sill Only made me laugh at his deviIish will. I stirred my fire and read my book, And joyed my soul at my ingle-nOOk; His snih and his snarl were always there, But my heart was not the heart of hare. I cursed the beast and drove him away, But he came with the fall of night each
 day; And his sniff, sniff, sniff the whole night
 through I could hear between the winds that blew. And the time came when laughed no more, But glanced with fear at my frail lodge
 door. For now I knew that the wolf at bay Sooner or later would have his way. The Fates were three, and I was one, My soul grew faint in the deadly snare, And the shrewd wolf knew my hearts de-
 s0air. A crash, and my door flew open wide; My strength was not as the beasts at my
 side. That night on my hearthstone cold and He licked his paw and made his lair.
 By John Fl. Bouer,
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nEATHs aoN THE rr onr, :,

The first took place close upon noon of midsummer day, and was impress sive from the fact that the stricken man was the viee-president of the Ex- change, who had just announced the death of another member, and was des- cending from the rostrum, when he staggered and grew pale, was assisted to the hallway, was laid down and forthwith breathed his last. This, in deed, was brokers final "call to the door," but as the Dark Summoner had without the gateway the event, how ever startling, was less spectacular than his return and actual intrusion upon the floor three yearse afterward and at the same hour of the day. A favorfta old-time member seated by pillar in the centre of the room, slipped without warning to the floor. It was a day of financial alarms, the room was
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H4BfTU4L.

Mrs. Goode-"Tell me at once how you learned that vile hebiti" Tuffy McNutt-"Couldn't do it fur nuttin, mum. but I'll teach yer how to smoke fer 10 cents.' ts.'-Chicago Daily News.
 MT. Smalltalk-''Let's see. believe when she married him he was a strug- gling young man, wasn't he" Mrs. Lit tlebit-"He was. He struggled as hard as he could, but she got him. "-Chicago News.
 The Husband-"What! You don't mean to say those furs were sS00?" ''Yes: but I'm going to be very careful of them. In fact, ordered another set Cor only $1OO, so as to keep these for best. Life.
 "How do you like civilization?' "Civ- ilization," answered the sultan of Nor occo. lis like the bicycle I have been learning to ride. It's great, as long as you can manage to stay on top" Washington Star.
 Kippax-"And who is your favorite author, Mrs. Softy?'' Mrs. Softly-"My husband" Kippax-"Pardon me; I did, n't know he wrote" Mrs. Softly-"oh, but he does. and 50 nicely-checks! Town and Country.
 What is your opinion of the secret ballot?" asked the citizen after cleo tion. Well. it is my opinion" replied the defeated candidate, If it were kept secret longer some of us would be hap pier. ."-Yonkers Statesman
 Lady Customer Gin book store)-"Give me a copy of Romeo and Juliet " Clerk-"Yes, miss. A dollar and a half, please" Lady Customer-"I find I've only got 75 cents. Just give me Romeo" St. Paul Pioneer Press. .l
 Hewitt-"I had poem accepted to- day, but these magazine editors are so slow that I don't suppose it will be published until after I'm dead" levitt
 '' How true it Is that the evil that men do lives after them. Brooklyn Life.
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4 PROPER PROTEST.

Some citizens of Geneva, Illinois. who are seeking change in the ar engagements for the execution of con- demned criminals are entitled to the en- eouragement and support of all thoughtful persons. 4 convicted mur- derer is about to be hanged in Geneva and the excitement which is caused by the prospective hanging has induced the board of education to pass resolutions demanding the enactment of law pro- viding that all executions shall take place in the State penitentiaries and in strict privacy. The signers of the res- olutions declare that ''the proposed hanging of human being in this com rnunity has excited and aroused a mor- bid curiosity among the people, and es- peciaily among the children, the tenden- cy O. which has been, in the judgment of this board, to produce harmful re- sults."
 Of course. How could it be otherwise? :? The less the attention called to the ex- ecution of condemned criminals the bet ter. Such executions have little or no deterrent effects and sometimes they seem to stimulate criminality instead of repressing it.
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HISTORY OF THE ANCHOR.
Various Improvements That Have Beer
 Made in Its Shape.

Various Improvements That Have Been
 Made in Its Shape.
 The ships anchors in general use up to the beginning of the last century consisted of a long, round iron shank, having two comparatively short straight arms, or fiukes, inclined to the shank at an angle of about 40 degrees, and meeting it in a somewhat shape point at the crown. In large anchors the bulky wooden stock was built up or several pieces, llooped together the whole tapering outward to the ends, es- pecially on the aft or cable side. About the beginning of the last century a clerk in the Plymouth navy yard, Per ing by name, suggested certain in- provements, the most important of which was making the arms curved in- stead of straight. At first sight this simple change may seem of little value, but consideration will show that this is not the case. The holding power of an anchor depends on two principal conditions namely, the extent of useful holding surface, and the amount of ver- tical penetration. The latter quality is necessary on account of the nature of ordinary sea bottoms, the surface lay- CTS of which are generally less tenac- ious and resisting than is the ground short distance below.
 In the year 1881 chain cables began to supersede the hempen ones, with the re- suit that the long shanked anchors hitherto in vogue were no longer nec- essary, and anchors will shorter shanks and with heavier and stronger crowns gradually came into use. In consequence of these changes, a com- mission was appointed in the year 1888 to inquire into the holding power of anchors, and principal result of its labors was the adoption of the so-call- ed admiralty pattern anchor, which continued to be used in the navy up to the year 1860. The invention of the steam hammer in 1s42 made the weld- ing of heavy masses of iron a compara- tievly easy and reliable process, so tn t from this time onward the strength oi anchors fully kept pace with that of the chain cables, which had come into general use.
 A number of patents for anchors were taken out prior to the great exhibition of 1851, and public attention having been called to the models there shown, in the following year a committee was appointed by the admiralty to report on the qualifications of anchors of the various ginds. Practical trials were then instituted, and as a result, Trot- mems anchor took the highest place, Rodgers anchor being second on the list Some of the tests to which the anchors were substituted were of doubtful value, such, for instance as facility for sweeping" Nowadays, however at all events for deep ships in shallow harbors, it is considered an advantage for an anchor to offer as lit- tie obscruction as possible above the ground.-Seience Siftings.
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crowded, gloomi ana .w....
 prevailed. SuddAnlv tha Hs...-ilzl ts-iisls ha1 S,,'-,, ,, -, ssl.s lhfn began that strange side. Trading eAases ss ,,..,-,' - ste.s -, ~ 1a s. y pr now. And there a .' .-. s --- ,..o "a tFemor. with one or s.u,s.s- .,eS- pisiering and others s T,..-- s-eliASetNfs back to give him ~ eteher, borne by two the entire assemblape for,,ad 1. e;reie e1eehoias 70 me Boundaries of the iooh. % uleu at snce a colleague be- lots lhs sgsS oA sA The silence, the naring oI heaas' tnf Hitting of the dead. the solemn sturuy march of his car riers 10 me exlt' NEk like nothing so much as a scene on tlhe stage of some great theatre m soa& historic play. It was followed lmneqately by that &C., ton taken only upol imperative occa- sions-tne temporars Adjournment of the board-and the fsnk was silent for an hour. When it's fnktions were re- neWed for the days fnhncial malaise had in some way been Allayed. as if, appeased by human adrifice. the ad- verse arbiters had ff the moment ceased their spleen.-Emund Clarence Stedman, in The centuR.
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AsorHER KANs4s EPISODE.

It is a cold and also a warm day when something isn't happening in Kansas. Tn Atchison the other day young wife alleged extreme cruelty against her husband because he had maintained her and his mother in the same establishment. As the complain ant related: 'Well knowing. owing to the peculiarities of his mother, it would be impossible for the plaintiff to live in the same house with her, with any thing like peace and comfort, he insist ed on bringing his mother to live with them shortly after moving into their own home, and did so over the protest and objection of the plaintiff; tha. his mother at once assumed absolute dolni- nation, gave directions to servants, took control of domestic affairs and commenced series of prosecutions of the plaintiff, with the result that On June q she fell dangerously i'll from nervous prostration, and for 8 long time remained at deaths door,
 She got her verdict and the popular mother-in-law theory got another boost. And yet how many good moth ers-ira-law there are who bless instead of persecute. Their virtues are not of- ten publicly recognized while the faults of the other kind are spread ali abroad, as the old hymn hath it.
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PREPOSTEROUS PRFJUDICE

There is, it appears, race prejudice in Africa. This is the way it struck a traveller in the interior. My appearance on this occasion, as on many others, ex- cited universal shriek of surprise and horror, especially among the women, who were not a little terrified at seeing such an outcast of nature as they con- sidered a white man to be peeping into their hr1ts and asking for little water or milk. The chief feeling that my ap- pearance inspired I could easily per- ceive to be disgust, for they were firm ly persuaded that the whiteness of the skin is the effect of disease and a sign of weakness, and there is not the least doubt that the white man is looked up- on by them as being greatly inferior to themselves. On market days I often terrified the people by turning short up- on them, when their exclamation gen. orally was, Preserve us from the deyil!" One day, after bargaining for some onions with country girl, she told me that if would take off my turban and show her my head she would give me five onions. I insisted upon having eight, which she gave me. When I removed my turban she started back at the sight of my shayen crown, and when I jocularly asked her whether she would like to have a husband with
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-------.----------- AN EDUcaTYON4L NEED

More imagination in teaching engi- Eeering is called for. In the Engineer ing Magazine Dr. Louis Duncan con- tends that present modes of instruction not only in our engineering schools, but in ether schools. as far down as the kindergartens, kill the imagination, which is an indispensable qualification of the real engineer. At present the student, he says, insists upon having a machine or drawing to assist him in the simplest problems, and he does not develop the faculty of pieturing to him. self the conditions of the problem. The trouble probably starts in the primary school, or even in the Kindergarten. The child is taught not to count, but to count blocks, and the teacher will not venture to talk about a cat unless she can show one to the class, and the same system is used too much throughout all the schools. This is wrong, for training the imagination is important in all edu- cation, but particularly so in develop ing an engineer. Real engineering work consists in solving new problems. in deyising and perfecting new machinery and methods, and in this work well- trained imagination is essential for suc- cess. .7s-
 This looks reasonable, but just now what is most needed in this region is some way of training students so that efficiency in football will coincide with the imagination.
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such head she expressed the greatest surprise and disgust and started back, and declared she would rather have the ugliest black slave for a husband.
 Other races, other prejudices. But doesn't the idea of black men having a race prejudice seem preposterous?
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quickly become cold; and since nothing is wanting to us but to be Babylonians it follows that being Babylonians is the true cause why the eggs became cooked and not to the friction of the air, which is what wish to prove"
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THE TOWER OF. LoNpoN.

Most people take as read the ancient history of the Tower; possibly few are aware that in comparison with it the palaces and prisons throughout Europe are modern creations, Hepworth Dixon establishes this fact clearly in his ad-
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ApYERTIsING 4 RATEa

sltnatIens. Wants. Rents. and other small s6Feetisements. One Cent q Word eAcn ln- kerIaoa. Else Cents Word for fnE Hsek
 EiispIay advertisements. peg inch. ore in1 Ferrio1. Si.20. each suoseq1ens insertion. ~ reDrs: que Aesk. s3.x0; one mouth, s2,6 ons year: ss0 -. u.... IN eenfc per line. Notices of Births. Marsr ages, Deaths, and Funeral. 50 cents eaen Local Notices. 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to tnes own immediate business fall matter to pc unoDjefcsonablej, and their contracts do nor incinde Wants. To Let. For Sale etc.
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This isn't the only country where there is race prejudice. In Australia, under new law, no contract can be made for the carrying of mails by any steamship line which allows a coiored man to work on any of the ships. The mail steamers hitherto have been large iy manned by dark skinned British sub jects from India. -..
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In recently published biography of Calico some stories are told Of the calstic humor of that bold investigator. Lotario Sarsi, a writer on science, hav- ing said that the Babylonians used to cook eggs by whirling them in a sling, Calico replied: "The cause of such an effect is very remote from that to which 1t is attributed sand to find the true cause shall reason thus: If an effect does not follow with us which followed with others at another time it is be- cause in our experiments something is wanting which was the cause of the former success; and if only one thing is wanting to us that one thing is the true cause. Now we have eggs and sings and strong men to whirl them, and yet they will not become cooked;
 nay. if they were hot at first they more
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A wine cask has just been built in California to hold 97,OOO gallons. Its iron hoops weigh 4e,oe0 pounds.
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< Six hundred thousand acres of 1n- dia's best land. says circular issued by the Christian Union against the opium traffic, are used by the govern ment for the cultivation of opium, the great bulk of which goes to China.
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Bishop Potter is telling a story on an Irish cook who once served in his fam lily. "one day heard the cook swear il. at great rate at an Italian gard ener we had and I rebuked her for it. i. But, yer riverince.' she said, he is nothin' but an ole dago anyway You should not speak that way of an Ital- ian protested. You know that your pope is dago, as you call them, and you consider him infallibie.' Wis, I know that she answered. And as a dago he is infallible, but if he was an 1rishman he would be twice as infalli- ble.' 1"