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Middletown transcript., 1904-07-02
COUNTY TAX
FIFTY CENTS
Reduction of Fifteen Cents on
the Hundred Dollars
LOWEST RATE FOR YEARS

The county tax rate for the fiscal year
beginning on Friday will be but 30 cents
on the hundred dollars. This is a reduc-
ton of Is cents on the hundred dollars,
as the rate for the year now ending was
65 cents. This action was taken at the
meeting of the Levy Court Tuesday MORN
ing in the shape of the following resolu-
ton, which was offered by Mr.. Hopkins,
chairman of the finance committee, and
passed.;
Resolved, That the tax rate for the fis-
cal year commencing Jnly 1st, 1904, be
40 cents on the hundred dollars for comfy
purposes and 10 cents on the hundred
dollars for poor purposes.
Respectfully submitted,
c. Candy Hopkins,
M. N. Willis,
John G. Armstrong,
Finance Committee.
This action OF the court is proof of the
economical manner in which the inan-
cial affairs of the county have been con-
Quoted during the past few years. When
the Republicans gained control OF the
court in 1900 the rate was s. cents on the
hundred dollars, and it has been reduced
until now it has reached the low figure of
so cents.
Notwithstanding the extra expense
during the year the court ends the year
with a surplus of $l50,000,
The appropriations set aside for the
next fiscal year follows:
Loan for funding floating debt No. 2,
$4,000; loan for benefit of trustees of
poor, $4,000; loan for construction of
Washington street bridge, $4,000; board
of trustees of county workhouse, $50, 600;
pest house, $1,000; trustees of the poor,
$35, 900; salaries, $4,000; interest on
bonds, $4,000; Third district, $4,000; |
First and Second district, Wilmington,
$4,000; Fouth district, $4,000; Fifth dis
trict, ,$4, 900; Sixth district, So, 900; Seventh
district, $500; allowance to assessors, 81 900 |
coroners and physicians, 81, 000;rebates on
taxes, 1000; magistrate and constable,
$1,000; officers of the court, 81, 900; print
ing and stationary, s., 600; court expense,
l0,000; light, power and water, $1,000;
good roads, $4,000; Ferris Industrial
School, $8, 800; county morgue, 5000; over
paid taxes, $500; insurance., 500; audi
tors, $500; telephone, 500; Wilmington
lieence enumerators, $400.
This amounts to $245, 400, which with
the unappropriated funds, $4,S75.40
makes $3.50, ,075. 40 surplus.
The following resolutions was offered
by Mr. Willitts:
Resolved, That the sum of 80 cents per
hundred dollars is ordered to be levied
upon the real estate and personal assess
ment to colored people for school pur-
poses in the several hundreds of New
Castle county for the year 1904.
The following resolution was also
passed:
Resolved, That the comptroller be and
is hereby directed to charge unappro-
priated funds with the sum of $50, 1864
and credit the same to appropriation as
followsi Salaries, $50, 746 "a; rebates on
taxes, $4,000; court expenses, $4,000.
The following bid for erecting house
for the bridgetender at Seventh street
bridge were received; Thomas Samworth,
$500; John B, Johnson, $l89S; George S.
Mckee, Jr., $2050; J. B. Haddock & Com
pany, $l925; S. G. Blackwell, $l653; Will
nington Construction Company, 1854 so;
P. F. Martin 4 Son.
Middletown transcript., 1904-07-02
MAGAZINE NOTES

There are few topics more interesting
to the agriculturist and fruit-grower than
the question of plant breeding. Some
recent experiment in crossing oranges
and other citrus fruits made under gov
ernment auspices have proved very sue
cessful. Not only have fruits with new
fiayors been the result, but the trees
themselves will be able to exist in more
northern latitudes. The whole matter
is fully described and illustrated by H.
Gibson Gardner in the July "Cosn, opoli-
tan."
Middletown transcript., 1904-07-02
FRED E. BACH, Register Of Wills
. EGfsTER's ORDER.
- REGISTER OF WILLS OFFICE.

NEW CASTLE COUNTY. DEL, May {, 1904
Upon the application OF hichard L. Price
Executor of Lydia A. Price, late of st. Geor-
ges Hundred. in said county, deceased
1t is ordered and directed by the Register OF
Wills that the Executor aforesaid give
notice OF granting Of Letters Testamenfary
upon the estate of the deceased. with the date
Of granting thereof by causing advertise
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 dema,ls against the estate
to present tile same or Jide by an act of
Assembly in such case made and provided !:
and also cause the same to be inserted within
the same period in The MIDDLET0wN TRAM
SCRIPT, a newspaper published in Middletown,
Del. and to be continued therein two months
49,, Given under the hand and seal of
SEAL office of the Register of Wills afore-
t~-r~) said, at Wilmington, in New Castle
Comfy aforesaid. the day and year above
FRED r. BACH, Register Of wills.
NoTicE-Notice is hereby given that Letters
Testamentary. were in due form of law
granted unto the undersigned, on the 7th day
OF May, A. ID. fy05, and that all persons
having claims against the estate OF the de-
ceased must present the same, duly attesfed
TO the said fxecutor, ON or before the
7th day Of May, 1s0j,. or abide the Act of
Assembly in such case made and provided
RICHARD l., PRICE.
Executor
Address. Martin B. Bunis. Esq !, Attorney st'
law, MIddlefoWn, Delaware. - 80 ~
Middletown transcript., 1904-07-02
Corner Stone LAYING

On Sunday afternoon next the corner
stone OF st. Hedwig' new church at Cedar
and Harrison streets, Wilmington, will be
laid by Bishop Monaghan. He will be
assisted by several Of the priests of the
city Under the leadership Of Mr. Pres
ton, choir from the different churches
will present musical program. It isex-
pected at least 5, 900 persons from Chester,
Philadelphia and Reading will be pres
emf.
Middletown transcript., 1904-07-02
Woman will Hang

For numbering her babe by tying a
cloth over its face until it smothered to
death, Lizzie Primrose, negress, was
sentenced to hang by Chief Justice
Pearee, in the Circuit Court for Talbot
County, Friday of last week. After kill
ing the child the mother buried it in
shed back of her house.
Middletown transcript., 1904-07-02
Worlds Fair Excursions

Low-rate ten-day excursions via Penn.
sylvania Railroad, July 2, 7, IA, 2l, and
rs. Rate, $3.50 from Middletown.
Train leaves.Middletown at 9.22 A. M,
connecting with special train from New
York arriving St. Louis 4.l5 P. NJ. hext
day.
Middletown transcript., 1904-07-02

Democratic National Convention, St. Louis,
No., July 8, One Fare for the Round
Trip via Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad.
Tickets on sale July to 5, incIus.,
good returning leaving ST. Louis not later
than fifteen days, including date ii sale.
Call OH Ticket Agents for full imforml-
fion.
Middletown transcript., 1904-07-02

Yesterday there hurried through here
for the twentieth time since adjournment
that Republican orator and peace.maker
Hon. Edward de " MorrelI the member
whom Philadelphia sent down with 25.-
600 majority. Gen. Morfell is always
warmly received here because he is a yip-
liant member of the District Committee
in Congress and because lie las not found
the possession OF great wealth incompa-
tible with tremendous activity and
energy as a publicist. He founded the
st. Francis Industrial School at Eddine-
ton, Pa, where over 800 boys receive 4
practical industrial education. He has
greatly interested himself in the progress
Of the colored race, having now before
Congress bill to prevent discrimination
by railroads earring passengers between
states. A few years ago he and MI
Morrell bought OF Philip st. George Cooke
the magnificent manor of "Belmead,, m
Va, with its 5000 acres, and esiabl shed
there an industrial school where Is col
ored bows are taught practical farmi 10
blacksmithing, carriage and wagon bn Id-
ing. tailoring, shoemoking, painting ana
milling.
Middletown transcript., 1904-07-02

The recent visit of Cardinal SatoIi, to
the President was quite a remarkable
incident He was received in the Blue
Room of the White House, and besides
the clergy of the Catholic Church who
were present, the President was sur
rounded by Secretaries Taft, Moody and
Hitchcock. He was felicitated by the
Cardinal on his example Of the highest
wisdom and equity in those things which
concerned the Government and religion
in the Philippines. Because of this, and
other things, the late Pope died blessing
the American public.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-23
Cures Cancer and Blood Poison.

Ifyou have blood poison producing
eruptions, pimples, ulcers, swollen
glands, bumps and risings, burning,
itching skin, copper-colored spots or
rash on the skin, mucous patches in
mouth or throat, falling hair, bone
pains, old rheumatism or foul catarrh
take Botanic Blood Balm. (B. B. b.
1t kills the poison in the blood: soon
all sores, eruptions heal, hard swell,
ings subside, aches and pains stop and
a perfect cure is made of the worst
cases of Blood Poison.
For cancer, tumors, swellings. eat
ing sores, ugly ulcers, persistent
pimples of all kinds, take B. B. B.
1t destroys the cancer poison in the
blood, heals cancer of all kinds, cures
the worst humors or suppurating
swellings. Thousands cured by B. B.,
B. after all else fails. B. B. B. is com.
posed of pure botanic ingredients.
Improves the Digestion, makes the
blood pure and rich, stops the awful
itching and all sharp, shooting pains.
Thoroughly tested for thirty years.
Druggists, 81 per large bottle, with
complete directions for home cure.
Sample free and prepaid by writing
Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. De-
scribe trouble and free medical advice
also sent in sealed letter.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-23
2O.OOO,OOO DESCENDANTS.
That's the Number a Fly Is Re.
sDonsibIe for in Season.

The common house fly does not, In
the ordinary sense of the word, mi
CRATE, though of course individuals OF
the species frequently fV long dis
tapces. The remarkable fecundity OF
the fly is quite sufficient to account for
it's numbers during the early summer
A few individuals in the torpid states
survive even the coolest winter, and
with the first warm days of summer
Law their eggs. When deposited under
favorable conditions these are Matched
in from twelve to twenty-four hours,
and in twelve days the worm changes
into nymph, and in ten days more into
a perfect fly.
A fly will lay four times during the
summer, about eighty eggs each time,
and careful calculations have demon
strated that the descendants OF a single
insect may from the first of June to
the end september exceed 20, 0OO, 200.
We're it not for bats, insect eating
birds and the innumerable microscopic
PARASITES with which the fly is afflicted
there would be no worse pest In Inc
world
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-23
Do You Want Strength?

Ifvou want to increase your strength
Won must add to and not take from the
physical. IL other words, the food
that YOU eat must be digested, asslm-
Hated and appropriated by the nerves,
blood and tissues before being expell-
ed from the intestines. Kodol Dyspep-
sia Cure adds TO the physical. 1t
gives strength to and builds up
strength in the human system; IL is
nIaasant to .he taste and palatable,
and the only Inclination of digestants
that will digest the food and enable
the system to appropriate all of its
health and strengthening qualities
Sold by DAWSON DhoU W.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-23
LITTLE ANNIE TOM DILLARD
Loving Tribute to Her Memory
by Her Mother.

In Terrell county, Ca, on November
9, 1908, the spirit of little Annie Tom,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Dill
lard, passed from earth to heaven,
aged four years and ten months. She
was an unusually bright child with a
loving disposition. While so young
she seemed to understand that she
must die. Oh, how it grieved US to
give up our darling. Our home is so
lonely without her, yet the Lord doeth
all things we'll for those who trust
Him.
Her little busy, helping hands are
still the praGtle of her little feet is
silent, her bright blue eyes arc closed,
her sweet voice is hushed, and we can
hear it no more on earth. She has
gone to join the band in the heavenly
land, and we feel that our sorrow will
some day turn to JOY. Then there will
be no grievipg and weeping for me.
Darling Annie, she. has left US,
Left us, yes, forever more.
But we hope to meet our loved one
On that bright and happy shore.
There was an angel band in heaven
That was not quite complete,
So God took our darling Annie
To fill the vacant seat. MAMA.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-23
FACTS ABOUT LAKE BAIKAL'
Scene of Death TO Many Russian Soldiers
and Terror to Travellers.

Lake Bafkal, where 600 Russian
troops are reported to have frozen to
death, is situated in eastern Siberia,
at an altitude of 1,400 feet, surround
ed by wild mountains which rise to
1000 feet, says the Chicago News. 1t
is crescent shaped. Its greatest length
Is $40 miles, it's greatest breadth about
20 miles, its greatest depth 1880 feet,
and it's average depth about 800 feet
Three large rivers and many streams
discharge into the lake, which empties
through the lower Angara into the
Yenisei. The lake is frozen from jan
uary to the beginning of May. 1t forms
part of the line of communication be-
tween Russia, the Amur and China.
In winter the lake is crossed on the
ice, and temporary station is estab-
ltshed halfway. Many people have
lost their lives in the wild storms that
sweep over the ice and sometimes
partly break it up. A road has been
built round the south coast. The
Transsiberian railway will follow this
road, but it is not yet complete, COM
munication being maintained in sum-
mer by steamer and in winter by
means Of q temporary railway on the
ice. This temporary railway has not
been finished this year. The lake is
great fishing ground, 10000 hundred
weight of salmon being cured annually,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-23
jim is MIGHTY SHIFTY.
Don't Fool Yourself About Him
in the Hearst Business.

From the Albany Herald.
The Hon. Jim Grggs appears to have made the
mistake of not sounding public sentiment at
home before he sounded his horn at Washington
Augusta Chronicle
This, presuma bly,, has reference to
Congressman Griggs having committed
himself to Mr.. Hearst as presidential
candidate. Jim didn't have to sound
public sentiment at home before de-
c!aring for Hearst; for it does not ap-
pear from anything he has said or
done that be pretended to commit any
body but himself to the New YORKER.
But say, esteemed contemporary, don't
YOU fool yourself about Jim Grggs
and this Hearst business. We are not
saving the people of Georgia are for
Hearst, but we feel reasonably safe IN
saving that they are in receptive
frame of mind with reference to the
choice of the next democratic candl-
date for the presidency, and If Jim
Griggs makes up his mind to do
about" a little and tell them why be is
for Hearst and why he believes he is
the man for the democrats TO nominate
YOU NAV be surprised. Jim Grlggs Is
as shifty in politics as the old deacon
of camp meeting fame was IN prayer,
and stranger things have happened in
Georgia politics than the landing OF
Georgia in the Hearst column would
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-23
GEO3GIA'S SHARE 100000.
army and Navy Cost the People Of This
State That Much Annually.

WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator
Bacon showed how much the cost to
GeCrgia-the cost of IT'D share OF sup
port Of the army and navy according
70 tle size of the appropriations car
fled IN the pending supply bills-in a
speech he made on the navy appropri-
a1lon bill. In this same connection he
made another interesting comparison.
as their share of the cost involved in
tle army and navy appropriation bills
!9St passed by congress the people of
georgia will be called upon to pay no
less than $4,000
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-23

Henry Morgan and Sidney Harrell,
the white prisoners charged with
burning the town of Preston, an &C
count of which has been published in
The News, are still in the Sumter
county Jail, where they will be kept
until Webster court convenes at Pres
ton on the frss Monday in next
month.
1t seems that the Americas military
reached Preston not minute too soon,
as the prisoners otherwise might have
been lynched, Conservative citizens
were counseling large assemblage OF
determined men when the special
train bearing Judge z. A. Lfttlejohn
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-23
LIFE PAYS FOR HIS TREASON.
Russian Officer Shot for Selling
Secrets to japan.

Captain Ivkov of the Manchuriau
service has been summarilY court,
martialed and shot for acting as a spy
in the pay of the Japanese. When
arrested on suspicion of espionage
documents found in Ivkov's possession
left no doubt of the truth of the
charges that he had long been reveal
ing military secrets to the Japanese.
The tragic story became public
through simple announcement in the
army organ that IvkoV has been ex-
cluded from the service.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-23
PREFER TOWN TO COUNTRY
NEGROES CAN NOT BE INDUCED TO
WORK IN THE FIELDS.
Mississippi Planters Complain of Scarcity
of Labor, and Planting of Cotton Crop
Will Be Seriously Interfered With.

OF LABOR, anu framing OF COttOn crop
Will Be Seriously Interfered With.
A Jackson dispatch says with the
season ripe for cotton planting and the
farmers desiring to plant the largest
acreage in the history of the state the
plaintiye cry is coming from all sectio 8
of Mississippi that the negroes cannot
be induced to leave the towns and go
to the fields to plant the seasons crop.
In years past this complaint has been
confined chiefly to the delta section
where large landed estates are titled,
but this year the cry seems to be uni
versal, coming equally strong from the
hill counties, and with particular force
from the southwestern section of the
state, where the negroes have been
driven out of the rural communities by
whitecappers.
Fancy wages are being offered and
seldom accepted by the negroes. They
prefer to remain in town and pick up
such labor as may be offered, which is
particularly plentiful just now on ac
count of the general building boom
being enjoyed by The ithlckly sSettled
communities. In every town in the
state, however, there are hundreds of
idle negroes.who have no employment
whatever nor do they desire to obtain
work. Apparently they have plenty
of money with which to salty their
modest wants and are content to
lounge about, and repudiate with scorn
all offers made by labor agents or
planters searching for field hands.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-23
ROCkefeIIeT'S Fake Honey.

A Philadelphia paper has dispatch
describing Mr.. John d. Rockefellers
new business of making "honey" out
of glucose. Sulphuric acid is employed
in the preparation of the fake honey,
which the dispatch says retains a
noticeable trace of the sulphuric acid,
no matter how much it may be refined.
The ,dispatch goes on: Commission
men say they can taste the acid. Chem
lists declare that the acid rots the
teeth. In another generation or two,
from this cause alone, they contend,
there will hardly be child with sound
teeth" In that event the Rockefellers
can form an artificial tooth trust, and
add something more to their modest
fortunes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-23
HARRELL DENIES COMPLETELY in THE CRIME
He Did Not Hire Morgan Apply the Torch to Preston
House and Churches Were Also Meant for the Flames

and the military arrived, thus insuring
the safety of the prisoners.
Harrell, who denies completely in
the crime to which his nephew, Nor
gan, confesses, is nephew of the late
Judge David B. Harrell, a former
Judge of the superior court of this cir
cult, and one of the best known and
most prominent citizens of this section
Morgan alleges that Harrell employed
him to apply the torch. Morgan ex-
presses sorrow that they did not burn
out Samps Bell, father of Messrs.
John M. and Jesse Bell of Dawson, and
says they intended to burn the court
house and two churches.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-23
Left Lions Cage Open.

Alfred J. Perrino, well-known lion
tanner of Jacksonville Fla, has been
adiudged insane and will be sent 10
the state insane rsylum.
He went into the lions cage aud
came out, leaving the door open ana
saving that God would keep the hons
from coming out.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-23
HAMMACK GETS LIBERTY.
Young Randolph County Man
Released from Penitentiary.

John Bernard Hammock of Randolph
county, who in November, 1901, was
convicted of stealing a horse aud bug
gy in that county and given term of
four years, has been pardoned from
the penitentiary. Evidence was pro,
duced before the board of pardons that
the man did not intend to steal the
horse and buggy, but only wanted to
take ride.
Hammack belongs to one of the most
prominent families in Randolph coun-
tV
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-23
'NlyG OUT THE HYMNS
.ou,ouABLE CHURCH INDUCES
=, rue SOULFUL OLD PRACTICE.
II, Centennial Celebration of Wash
Iootop Church it Is Initiated The
Inference Now and Then.

,, atmosphere resembling that OF
aorIv church was sought to be
PIE ca "a when the preacher lined out
PF01 INNS" So concludes news dis
l' ~ relating to the centennial cele-
pS'. ,inn Of the New York Avenue
|pD'. @: church in Washington,
[ ,,,naor generations probably do
l '.aom what 'lining-out the hymns"
i ,n. saws the Savannah News. The
l.'.rom, once universal, has now fallen
ato disu8e except in isolated sections
NV va congregations are small and
~ is not abundant. But persons
w. or mast the half-century mark in
y, Ill recall the soulful old practice
|rirb varied emotions-most OF them
,,a.ont Occasionally, indeed, the
E1,nino out" by the minister was &C
~, nanied by humorous incident; but
.ho main it WAS a very serious bust
hess from the point OF vie" OF ootn
bsstor and people.
Tbo custom of ''lining out" the
,rmns had its origin in the early days
two facts: that neither education
~ capltal was so widely distributed
Of nrpsent. Many a devout soul and
Enstr singer had no hymn book, be-
oonse he couldn't afford to buy one,
ID he couldn't have read the hymn if
f. had owned the book. To bridge
his double difficulty the preacher
adopted the expedient of reading out
10 lines at a time, which the congre-
cation would sing, and so on to the
| md of the hymn-hence the term,
|liDing out"
The declamatory effort that the
PREACHER often employed was no less
IMPRESSIVE than the rendition of the
hymn by the congregation. There
Ras no idle holding of books before
make believe singers. The cOngrega-
lion leaned back In their seats, closed
their ewes, absorbed the "lined out"
words of the preacher, then praised
God with their voices with such en-.
thusiasm and in su 3h manner as are
hot possible by paid choir with in
leadership. From an artist
Il point of view there is, of course, no |
COMPARISON between the old "lined |
out congregational singing and the
prasent-day symphonies by highly |
trained Quartettes, quin 5ettes, sex
tettes or octettes. But sincerity, faith |
and depth of purpose have lost where |
musical art has gained, with respect to
this particular matter. There is room
Tor an honest doubt, too, whether the |
Effect of modern hymn rendering is as
beneciaI as the old fashioned style.
When the hymns were "lined out" the |
singers had time to ponder the
words and their meaning. The repe- |
-itiOn served to make the matriX in |
The brain deeper and more lasting. |
Today the hymns best remembered by |
nen of 50 or more are doubtless those |
they heard the preacher Zine out"
with acute rising and falling infection
the days of their youth. The choir |
md the big organ are pleasing to the |
ar; the lining out" and cOngrega.
lOnal singing therefrom were direct
ppea.s to the religious nature.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-23
You Know What You Are Taking

When you take Groves Tasueless Chill
Tonic, because the formula is plainly
printed on every bottle showing that
it is simply iron and quinine in taste
less form. No cure, no pay. so cents.