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Middletown transcript., 1903-03-28
sAssAFRAs ITEMS

Mr.. Hampton Johns has been seriousl,
i'll for the past ten days.
Mrs. Rachel Stradley visited Mrs. Char
les Fillingame last week.
The Diamond State Telephone Com.
paay has 275 phones in Cecil County.
Mrs. Rachel Stradley is visiting her
brother, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Johnston.
The heavy rains of the past several
days have badly washed the wheat fields.
Master Paul Rosin who has been quite
sick We are pleased to state is improved.
Duck shooting on the flats is reported
to have been good during the past week.
There are twice as many boys as girls
in the graduating class of the public
school.
Misses Bessie and Emma Stradley were
entertained by Mrs. Raymond Thornley,
Tuesday.
J. P. Ahern, W. C. Rolph and G. B.
Taylor have been elected commissioners
of Millington.
Miss Bessie Gunkil, of Warwick, was
entertained Wednesday by her sister,
Mrs John Ernest.
Miss Carrie Sinickson, of near Massey,
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert s.
Griffith on Sunday.
Messrs. Arnold Ste wart and Alexander
I. Laws visited the Townsend lodge on
Friday evening last
Mrs. R. Melick, of Philadelphia, visited
her mother, Mrs. Caroline Johns, from
Saturday until Monday.
The business men of Cecilton have
started movement looking to the estab.
lishment OF a saving bank.
Mr.. Stephen Boyer has been very i'll |
for sometime and We are sorry to state is |
no better at this writing.
Miss Fannie McIntire, of Galena, is |
being entertained by her sister, Mr.. and |
Mrs. Raymond Thornley,.
Wednesday being Maryland Day" it
was generally observed throughout Cecil
County by the public schools.
Commissioner and Mrs. Louis P. At
well and little son visited his brother,
MIR. and Mrs. Joseph Atwell several days
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Griffith and
daughters were entertained Saturday and
Sunday by her sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
er Schriver, near Port Penn.
Dir. and Mrs. Alexander 7. Laws we're
from Saturday until Tuesday
oy her brother, Mr.. and Mrs. William
'tuckert Ellison, of near st. Georges.
The Colonial Tea' held at the home
# Mr.. George S. Biddle, under the au-
pices of the St. James NJ. P. Church
vas great success. About $50 was rea-
lied. ii
Rev. Thomas H. Lewis will preach the
pening sermon at the convention of the =
laryland Annual Conference of the
lethodist Protestant Church in POGO
loke City on April 1st.
A resolution has been passed by Elkton
ouncil, Jr. o. U. A. NJ, to be laid be- =
IRE the annual meeting of the State Coun- h
| OF Maryland, requesting that body to
old its meetings in 1904 at Elkton. T
The annual meeting of the New Castle o
resbytesy, which is composed of the II
resbyterian Churches in Cecil County, Sc
I'd New Castle County, Del. will be "
I'D on Wednesday next, April 1st, at
ewark, Del.
Rock Hall Council No 149, Jr. O. U. U
NJ. presented the public school with al
bible and flag last Friday afternoon. ot
le presentation speech was delivered by Ut
ev. ]. W. Talley of the NJ. Z. Church. 10
of. J. A. Greenwood thanked the order ci
behalf of the school. About 20 mem. WI
RS of the order were present. Appro- al
late addresses were made. Gil
Middletown transcript., 1903-03-28
Clothes Like Paint

You know how paint i'm
proves a house or building
New Spring Clothes will dc
the same for you. We are
ready not only with new
Clothing, but with Hats,
Shoes and Furnishings.
New Spring Overcoats and
Suits, $40, $12 and SIS.
Made by up-to-d date tailors,
with all the style possible.
We expect to do more busi-
ness than ever this Spring,
and we want you to help US.
We will take care of you,
will save you money, and
will sell you Clothing that
you will be proud of.
JAS. 7. MULLM 4 SONS,
9th and Market, Wilmington.
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Spring Fertilizers

Stored in our Warehouses by bag or
ton, for Oats, Potatoes, Tomatoes, As
paragns, Corn, Berries, Peach Trees and
General Trucking. Send your teams and
orders along. Prompt attention.
JESSE L. SHEPHERD.
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Mails Close as Follows.

Going North-7.3O q. m, 1905 a. M, $50 p.n.,
5.45 p. m. and 9p. m.
Going South-S. 10 q M, I35 p. M, and pm
For OdessR-930 a. M. IL 40 a. m. 5.05 p. m.
For Warwick, Cecilton, Earlville and Sassa-
fras-e.40 O. m.
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The Middletown Transcript

Trains Leave Middlstowu as Follows:
North Bound|.so, 7.s2, s.0 and 1927 q. m;
south Bouui-I24s, ssl. s2l and l1.Ao a. m;
2.56. 4 "a and 5cp. N.
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Our
Spring
Showing
Dress Gingham.


Classics striped and
checked patterns in green,
blue, red, pink and black
colors at &c. a yard.
Amoskeag A. F. G. Seer.
sucker 10c. a yard.
Bates mills Seersncker
12c. a yard.
Laces and Embroidery
from 1c. a yard up to 4oc. a
yard. A full line, of silk
Ties, all shades on hand at
25c. a yard.
A full line of silk Ribbon
all over laces and embroid-
cry.
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THE TRAsscRIrr sl.oO per year.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-06
CHEMICAL ALCOHOL is CHEAT

New Process Which Decreases Great
Iy the Cost of Production.
Advices received by the Sta>e De-
partment at Washington from United
States Consul Haynes at Rouen,
France, throw more light on the new
process that has been discovered by
which alcohol may be produced by
chemical synthesis. 1t is predicted
that the cost of such production can
be reduced to less than 10 cents a gal
Ion. Thus far the cheapest alcohol
produced has cost nearly 20 cents a
gallon. At this price Germany pro-
duces quantities of alcohol, potatoes
being used as the vegetable base. BY
the French process no vegetable mat
ter is employed. From Carburet of
calcium direct combination of car
bon and hydrogen in the electric arc
-aetylene is obtained. Sufficient
hydrogen then is added to produce
ethylene, and by combining water
with ethylene alcohol is obtained.
While the cost of alcohol by the new
process has not yet been reduced
much below its cost as produced from
vegetable matter, it is predicted with
confidence by eminent French chem
lists that in the near future it may be
produced by the new process at a
cost of about half that which Germany
pays to obtain it from potatoes
Philadelphia Record
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How Families Were Divided.

The civil war saw many divisions IN
families, it being no uncommon thing
for members of one family to be fight
example:
Capt. William A Winder, U. s. A,
died at Omaha, Neb., last week, at the
age of 80 years. Capt. Winder was
a grandson of Gen. William H. Win
der, who led an expedition into Can
ada il the war of 1872, repealed the
British attack at Stony Creek in 1913,
but was himself captured. Gen. Win
der's son, and the father of the soldier
who died last week, was John H. Win
der, graduate of West Point in 1920,
twice breveted for gallantry in the
Mexican war, who resigned from the
United States army on April 27, 1851,
and entered the service Of the Con-
federacy. Made a brigadier general
and given command of Richmond, he
had charge of the prisons at Libby
and Belle Isle, and was subsequently
placed in command at AndersOnville.
To what extent he was justly charge
able with the cruelties practiced upon
the Union soldiers imprisoned there
has been disputed, his friends claim
ing that he was villified beyond mis-
deserts. There is no doubt that in
the North he was regarded as a mon
ster of cruelty. His son, who died the
other day, went into the army in 1S4S,
remained true to the Union and served
with distinction during the civil war.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-06
OIL MAeNATE's GREAT BRAIN.
The Reason for John .. Rockefeller'a
Business Success.

Business Success.
A copper mining engineer says: 81
consider John d. Rockefeller one of
the most underestimated men in this
country The man who has done
what he has done must possess brains
that are not easily compared with the
ordinary mind Mr.. Rockefeller can
no more miss the point of financial
problem than an artist can fail to see
a picture when harmonious lines or
color fall under his eye.
q will illustrate the Rockefeller
financial capacity by something which
occurred within my personal knowI
edge. John D. Rockefeller few years
Igo was enjoying his bread and mill
IN the Adirondacks upon a large dairy
farm. An ordinary business man
might have said, What is the profit
on this milk or What does it
cost and what do you get for it?'
Not SO. however, with Mr.. Rockefeller.
He said to the farmer. What do you
pay for your silo and what do you pay
for your labor ETC., and few other
innocent questions. Then he took a
paper and pencil and in a few min
utes looked up from his figures and
said, Mr.. Smith, your milk costs you
- cents per quart and Farmer
Smith replied, Thunder and guns; it
took us eleven years to find that out,
and you have found it out in eleven
minutes
Now" continued the mining engin-
eer, IF you will take your own lead
pencil and figure the relative efficiency
of that Rockefeller lead pencil as com
pared with most farm lead pencils at
Eleven Minutes VS.. Eleven Years, and
multiply the organization ability be
hind the lead pencil as expressed in
the tens of thousand of brain units it
has organized and efficiently directed
you will get the mathematical answer
to the problem of why one man dis
tances all competitors in the race for
billion-dollar goal, although starting
from the base of a $7-a-week clerk
ship -Wall Street Journal.
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free air outside of the walled tenn.
pies.
Filth and poverty swarm in the city
life, and one is little prepared for the
beauty, serene and chaste, which IL
revealed in the Temple of Heaven.
Through the thick of the dirty town
under the heavy wall. beyond the mar
ket reeking with vile odors, humping
the ridges of deep ruts, the riksha
flies to the great Enclosure of a thOus.
and acres, where one treads the quiet
fields, fragrant with herbs, to the CO
lossal structure where the gods pa
raded from the near-go-down, for the
annual worship of the emperor 1t il
a silent and deserted thronercom, ex.
-cept when crowded with idols on the
opening day of each new year. Giant
pillars in red and gilt support the
dome, and color and carving are a
marked feature. Here, alone with his
thoughts and his gods, the ruler bows
to the world and entreats blessing
on his vast domain. Does responsible
ty Cypress him? Does love for his
myriad millions Cypress him? Does
the burden of ignorance, poverty.
degradation of the teeming multitudes
prey upon the ruler and fill him with
longing for the uplift of needy race?
Perhaps he feels that he is helpless
in the thraldom of old China, for we
find no evident results of that annual
prayer.
A ride in Pekin is sure cure for
torpid liver. Tattered beggars try to
keep pace, and the springless gocart
jolts out of an alley. at a sharp angle
with the flying machine. The nation
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lives in the streets. Humps of human
ity crouch on bales of rags. Junk
vendors spread their goods in the dirt
Old leather rubs against rusty iron.
Griddle cakes are q favorite dish, and
chop sticks heap up the steaming rice.
Chestnuts and peanuts roast by the
way, bowls are filled with sauces and
preserves, candied fruits cling to the
yardstick, cauldrons are redolent with
hot potatoes, steaks are frying, and
sweets made from cereal tickle the
taste.
Nothing like law or order prevails
in Pekin- Never does the traveller
feel SO utterly helpless and without
protection as in this bewildering
throng of packed and jostling natives.
where no one understands, and no one
is responsible. The embodiment of
the law is barely recognizable from
the rank and fle. so stupid, SO indif-
ferent, so needless he seems, and the
soldier looks a dressed-up rufian-
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When Lee Surrendered.

The Washington correspondent of
The Richmond (Va-) Times-Dispatch
wrote under date of April 8:
Tomorrow is the anniversary of
the surrender of Appomattox, said
Senator Daniel, in his committee room
at the Capitol. We who followed the
fortunes of the Confederacy for four
years cannot help feeling sad as we re-
call that day. he continued. We can
not forget the cause we loved, and love
still, though it was lost
I had been at my home in Lynch.
burg for some months getting well of
wounds when the end came said the
Senator. I was able to hobble around
4 little on that 9Th of April. The old
darby who woke me up when he
brought in my breakfast was dread
fully scared His face was ashy and
his voice trembled. "Marse John, amt
dem cannons what's boomin' down de
river?" he asked
listened a moment and could
distinctly hear artillery firing, though
It is twenty-six miles from Lynchburg
10 Appomattox. They are cannon.
sure enough" / told him, and he went
out highly excited and scared. I
dressed as quickly as could and got
outdoors, where the sound OF guns
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-06

and a worldwide interest in the last
three years.
One reads the motto of the people,
isolation and seclusion, in the great
rampant that towers around Pekin,
running many miles and reaching high
it's solid walls, which forbid and defy
the foreign hordes. But modern prog
ress has pushed through the city
stronghold, and the insistent tourist
forces his way under the impregna-
BILE North Gate, across which no rik-
man may urge his claims. At the gate
the battle RACES. Belinda had heard
how one must bully and browbeat
celestial John on his own domains,
and she had her own methods of oily
smoothness to prove. But she did not
have a change to try them. The mob
fell nightly upon her. Cutthroats
they looked, and tatterdemalions they
were, swarming like a pack of hungry
wolves upon their prey, belching their
claims, and stabbing the shafts of the
rik into her helpless being. She
sprawled among a dozen riks, but she
pulled herself into one, dirty, de-
PRAYED, like all the rest, and with a
flying pigtail fore and aft, she was
bolted to the quaint Hotel du Nord.
Lif in that hosiery repaid the long
and irksome journey. 1t was a Chi
nese compound, walled in and walled
up. The center of life was the sanded
bar, through which passed high and
low en- route to their dens. The din
ing hall was the center of q dense
stockade, around which was a network
of crosscuts and alleys, where the
passer rubbed shoulders with the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-06
The stars on the FLAG.

The Stars on the Flag.
Count the stars the flag as it passes
by,
And then number the stars in yon dis
tant sky
The number would be the brave hearts
that would die
For the stars the flag.
Count the stripes on the fiag-we weave
into one
The tears and the signs for the lives that
are done,
But out of the shadows of each setting
Shine the stars on the flag.
Count the tears for the flag! Were they
shed in vain?
What now seeneth loss even yet will
seem gain,
For the nations great heart will suffer
no strain
On the stars of the flag
Hats Off to the flag For its life breathe
a prayer
That brave hearts and brave hands its
loved folds may bear,
Till the stars in their courses, their
glory shall share
With the stars the flag.
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walls, and never slid twice the same
way to his den- Little detached
houses of one or two rooms, filled up
the court, and every boarder lived
alone in his separate villa = A tintin-
nabulator swung outside the window.
and responded to a rusty wire from
within Silent, unobtrusive, John
never missed the tinkle and
when he fred up the alright
roons, the occupant caught a fiery
hint of what it would mean to die in
his sins. The bed was built for ones
forefathers. but it was not conducive
to Sleep 1t seemed a slice from the
Chinese wall, and however one lay, it
took down grade, and one slid with
the pillow to the footboard.
In the great Lamassery live over
one thousand priests. the Thibetan
Buddhists, who founded here their re-
treat, eleven hundred years before
Christ They are dirty and unkempt.
beggarly and importunate They be-
siege the victim with specious relics.
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(d dl alPflr6Idles

could be heard with great distinctness
About 2 O'Clock in the afternoon,
1 went out into the street 1 could not
get along very well, but l managed to
get to the top of the hill overlooking
the river, where I met Baptist min
lister hurrying toward me. 1 asked him
the news He was greatly disturbed
Eminently unsatisfactory, sir;
eminently So" he replied. 1T is re-
ported that Gen. Lee has surrendered
to Gen Grant down at Appomattox
Court House. And he hurried on evil
IDENTIFY in great distress.
made my way on toward the bot
tom. When not far from the raflroak
1 saw a group of Confederate soldiers,
who evidently had a prisoner. When
1 drew closer recognized that they
were guarding an old friend of mine.
Lieut. John Stockton of the Monticello
Guard of Albemarle county. was
astonished, and as soon as got to the
men I asked why they had arrested
my friend, Lieut. Stockton.
81 got reply at once. One Of the
men said he was deserter. For Gods
sake, John, how is this?" asked.
well, just told them Gen.. Lee had
surrendered said Stockton, cooIly,
land they thought must be desert
err"
1.-The men took up the conversation
and argued that there could be no
doubt that their prisoner had deserted.
OF course, Gen. Lee had not quit fight
ing. I asked Stockton to explain, and
he said that while the actual ceremony
of surrender had not taken place when
he left the field, yet the white flags
were out at that time. He had man
aged to slip into the bushes and get
away. Like a number of others who
had fought under Lee, he could not
witness the surrender. OF course. we
saw then that the news of the surren-
der was true. That night we had full
confirmation.
81 determined at once to join Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston in North Carolina,
and began to arrange for departure,
said the Senator, with reminiscent
smile, but when / found I would have
to travel in buggy, being unable to
ride, concluded that my joining any
army woul1 be a joke, SO l gave up
the idea and faced the music with the
rest of the boys.
Ibid you ever hear how Fitz Lee
surrendered? You know he managed
to escape from the field at Appomat-
tox. He and several companions got
down to Farmville, and Fitz went into
the hotel, where Gen. Meade had his
headquarters. Fitz said he found out
the room in which Gen. Meade was,
and when he discovered that it was
unguarded, he thought it would be a
good thing to capture the Union COM
mander and make off with him. But
he soon saw this could not be done,
so he walked boldly in and introduced
himself. OF course, Gen. Meade was
greatly surprised, but 1 imagined he
was glad to receive the surrender Of
a man whose cavalry had been hitting
him such hard blows. Fitz sat and
talked with Gen. Meade for some time,
and 1 expect they enjoyed each others
conversation
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-06
Monuments at chickamauoa.

The Chickamauga Park commission,
consisting of Gen. H. ". Boynton of
Washington, who commanded the
Thirty-f1fth Ohio infantry in the battle
and was wounded in the assault upon
Missionary Ridge; Major General
Alexander P. Stewart, who commanded
a division in Breckinridge's corps of
the confederate army, assisted by E.
E. Belts, an engineer, and ]. P. Smart,
a historian of Chattanooga, have been
working for eleven years to ascertain
the truth and fix the correct locations
for each regiment engaged on either
side in the conflict. They have, of
course, been assisted by many of the
officers and soldiers engaged, but the
enormous labor they have performed
can scarcely be appreciated without
personal observation of the seven bat
tlefields in this vicinity which are en-
parked in the park project. extending
thirty miles from Chattanooga to
Ringgold. the scene of the final battle
of the campaign for the control of
Chattanooga and the Tennessee river
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The globe trotter, worn with varied
sights in many lands, who says that
Pekin is not worth the time and trou-
bic, since the Imperial City is shut on.
forgets that during only one short
year of foreign occupation was the
Imperial City ever open to the great
unwashed; he forgets the natural odd
fly of the Celestial capital. and the
wondrous march of modern story
which has given that capital a vital
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THE X. c. S. ALMANAC FOR 1908

Almanac for 1908 is now ready for dis
tribution. Farmers, stock-raisers.
fruit-growers, truck gardeners, manu-
facturers, merchants and others seek
ing a new field of action or a new
tain reliable Information concerning
Southwestern Missouri. the Cherokee
and Choctaw Nations In the Indian
Territory, Western Arkansas. Eastern
Texas, Northwestern Louisiana and the
Coast country, and or the business OPP
portunittes offered therein.
Write for a copy of the x. C. S. AL
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IMMENSE TOBACc0 PURCHASE.

Forty Eight Thousand Dollars Pale
for n Fancy Lot OF Tobacco.
The biggest purchase Of high grade
tobacco ever made in the West by a
cigar manufacturer was made last
Wednesday by Frank p. Lewis, Peoria
ILL.,, for his celebrated Single Binder
cigar. A written guarantee was given
that the entire amount was to be fancy
selected tobacco. This, no doubt,
makes the Lewis factory the largest
holder in the United States Of tobacco
Of so high a grading.-Herold Tran
script, Dec. Fl, 1909.
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SIGHTS OF PEKIN CITY
STRANGE TO WESTERN EYES
Celestial Capital Has Now An Interest That Is World
Wonderful Beauty of the Buildings and Surround
inas Of the Temple of Heaven-A Ride Through Streets.
Especial Correspondence

and Belinda felt an uncanny thrill as
they chased her about the ramify1ng
courtyards of their temples and pago-
das, claiming cash for entry and for
exit Scores of them knelt in yellow
robes and pentagonal tiaras, wildly
beating their drums, and wailing an
inhuman liant to their pagan gods.
Their grOanS were wonderfully bass
and it was good to lose the din of
their prayers on the ear and to breathe
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Do You Know

that Tey-7 is a State of unexaggerat-
ed POSSIBILITIES? No one can foretell
its great future. II you want to know
what it is and what is being done to
make it better known and appreciat-
ed, write for copy of book entitled
TEXAS" and pamphlet TIMELY
TOPICS No. g." Address
Katy" 5U2 Wainwright. st. Louis Mo.
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Everybody knows that Admiral
Dewey is as fine sailor as ever paced
the weather plank. but not many are
aware that the hero of Manila Is also
a clever whip. The admiral owns =
pair of the most spirited horses in
Washington and he handles them with
the skill of a veteran stage driver.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-06

Monument to Carrier Pigeons
A number of persons in Paris are
trying to raise funds for a monument
to the carrier pigeons used during the
siege OF that city in 1870-'71.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-06

ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADEDP
Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them
white again. Large o. package, cents.
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When 4 Girl Anale..


Say, pa" queried little Johnny
Bumpernickle, what's q possibility -
"A possibility, my boy" replied the
old man, els something . man wants
to happen. but which refuses to d
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-06

If man doesn't know when he's well
on some of his fool friends will tell
him
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When men mix religion with politics
shuttle
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Ewes fondness for apples was good
thing for tailors and dressmakers.