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Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-09-16
HILL TO THE FARMERS

James J. Hills attended the meeting
OF the Old Settlers Association of North
Dakota at Grand Forks and made an ad-
dress, saying:
"a good farm of 160 to 320 acres is a
comfortable, happy home. A man can
be a prince on his own farm. You rob
your children of this heritage when you
sell your farm. Keep the boys on the
farm. The state of North Dakota could
not raise grain enough to bake ten bis
cults per capita for the inhabitants Of
China. Now ten biscuits would be short
for years supply and | don't know
that you could raise enough grain-you
certainly don't raise enough grain-to
make two biscuits per capita. That Is a
market that seems to me to be unlimited.
Il want to. see better farming, because
If in the state OF Minnesota they got the
same annual return per acre of cultivated
land that they get in Iowa the state Of
Minnesota would have $4,000, 900 year
more money and that is is too much to
waste. The agricultural people of the
United States find in Russia their great
est competitor. Russia raises what we
raise; she exports what we export. In
the transcaspian country she is operating
through irrigation great areas of country
where she can raise cotton in competition
with us, and she will"
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-09-16
NIAGARA FALLS EXCURSIONS

The remaining dates of the popular
Pennsylvania Railroad tenday excursions
to Niagara Falls from Philadelphia, Bal
timore, and Washington are September
s and 22, and October Is.
The excursions from Philadelphia will
be run by two routes. Those on Septem-
Der 5 and %, going via Harrisburg and
the picturesque valley of the Susque-
hanna, special train leaving Philadelphia
at $40 A. NJ; excursion of October 13
running via Trenton, Mamma Chunk,
and the Delaware Valley, leaving Phila-
delphia on special train at S.07 A. NJ.
Excursion tickets, good for return pas
sage or any regular train, exclusive of
limited express trains, within ten days,
will be sold at $1,000 from Philadelphia
and all points on the Delaware Division !;
SLIPS from Atlantic City; $500 from
Lancaster; and at proportionate rates
from other points, including Trenton,
Bordentown, Mt. Holly, Cape May,
Salem, Wilmington, West Chester, Read
ing, and principal intermediate stations.
A stop-over will be allowed at Buffalo
within the limit of ticket returning.
The special trains OF Pullman parlor
cars and day c,aches will be run with
each excursion running through to Mag
ara Falls. An extra charge will be made
for parlor-car seats.
An experienced tourist agent and chap
eron will accompany each excursion.
For descriptive pamphlet, time of con-
Meeting trains, and further information
apply to nearest ticket agent, or address
Geo. w. Boyd, General Passenger Agent.
Broad Street Station, Philadelphia.
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ABOUT RAILROAD TICKETS

TO the traveller who appears at rail-
road ticket office about a minute before
train time and hurriedly demands ticket
to one OF the 800 or 700 stations along the
road there seems to be no special reason
why the agent should not have the par
ticular little slip of pasteboard be wants
ready and waiting for him, with the price
at the tip of his tongue. Few people
realize how complicated is the system by
which these valuable tokens are provided
nor how almost endless is their number.
Take, for instance, what is probably the
shortest though one of the busiest railway
systems in the country-the New York,
New Haven and Hartford. 1t is estimated
that 4, 100000 tickets are supplied each
month to the various agents along its
lines 100000 tickets year. in other
words. All these millions of tickets in
clude $500 distinct varieties, exclusive of
simple "card tickets" used for local travel
between different stations of the road.
The number of these latter is Of course
almost incalculable, for tickets from every
station to every other station on the road
with which it is likely to have any con-
siderable amount of traffic are printed in
large numbers, and it would take math-
ematician we'll versed in the law of COM
binations to determine the total quantity
issued.
Foreign tickets is, tickets en-.
titling the holder to travel over other
lines than those of the company that is
sues thenl-present an interesting prob
lem for the general ticket agent. He
must see that his representatives at all
stations are supplied with the familiar
strips of paper that entitle the purchaser
to travel to one or another of the impor-
tant strategic transportation points in the
United States. For those persons whose
peculiar tastes may lead them to some
little known or unfrequented corner of
the country blank coupons are attached
to certain number of these tickets
which the agent who sells them fills out
in writing.
As soon as foreign ticket is sold the
company that issues it sends each of the
various companies concerned in the
transaction its share of the fare paid
without waiting to see whether any use
is made of the transportation or not. In
other words, all this kind of business be-
tween different lines is conducted on
what is called in commercial language
The basis of sales. Naturally the book
keeping involved is something enormous
1t the season of the year when travel is
at its height.
Many people wonder what becomes of
Ill the old tickets collected by conductors
lfter they have been punched by multi
ude of officials. These little pieces of
paper are all turned over to the general
.uditor and after lie is through with
hem and bundled into great sacks,
hipped off to mills and ground into pulp
o be made into paper again. Once they
,aye passed through the hands OF the
Iuditor they have no other value, and the
money they bring as raw material is OF
ess importance than the necessity Of dis
,osing of them in some safe way.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-09-16
THE YELLOWSTONE PARK, LEWIS AND
CLARK EXPOSITION, AND THE ROCKY
MOUNTAINS

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has arranged special personally y-con-
Quoted tour to visit the Pacific Coast, in.
Guiding the Yellowstone Park, Portland
dor the Lewis and Clark Exposition)
and the beautiful resorts among the Colo
RADIO Rockies. This tour will leave New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore. Washing
ton, and other cities on the Pennsylvania
Railroad Saturday, September 2, by a
| special train of high grade Pullman equip
ment. The itinerary will cover period
Of three weeks, the party reaching the
East on the homeward journey Septem-
Der %. The special train will be used by
the party over the entire route, except
during the five and one-half days in the
Yellowstone Park, when the fine hotels
now in service in the Great Preserve will
be utilized. The train will be side tracked
in Portland for occupancy there, and all
meals en- route, in the Yellowstone Park
and in Denver, will be served in the
special dining car.
Round-trip tickets, covering all neces-
sary expenses for twenty-one days, 5000
from all points on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road except Pittsburg, from which the
rate will be $l95.
For itineraries and further information
apply to ticket agents /: G. Studds, Eastern
Passenger Agent, 263 Fifth Avenue, New
York ; Hugh Hasson, Jr., Passenger
Agent Baltimore District, Baltimore, Md;
B. NJ. Newbold, Passenger Agent South
eastern District, Washington, D. c.;
Thos. E. Watt, Passenger Agent Western
District, PittsbHrg, Pa; Or al 4ress Geo.
w. Boyd, General Passenger Agent,
PHILADELPHIA.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There


: Italy has the largest murder rate.
Every sixty-ninth birth it is twins.
Widowers remarry more frequently
than widows.
10 swim with the fingers close together
prevents cramps.
A mans hair turns gray five wears
sooner than woman's.
Everybody loves to boost booster /!
Don't forget this-and keep boosting
| Sixty thousand elephants are annually
slaughtered to give the world its ivory.
"A full mail, as carried by big At
lantic liner, average 100000 letters and
300 sacks of newspapers.
The English flag floats on II 1866 mer-
chant vessels. The total number of such
vessels in the world is given at 90, 756.
Gasoline engines generally consume
from one-tenth to one-eighth of a gallon
of gasoline an hour for each horsepower.
1t is estimated that 500, ,OOO,O00 is spent
annually for silk hosiery by women who
fear that they may figure in wreck.
Any person who is lied about in public
may console himself by rejecting that he
must be of some importance or people
wouldn't take the trouble.
More than $4,000 people went to the
union depot in Cleveland, Ohio, the other
| day to welcome home the local baseball
nine. After al, the greatest modern hero is
the one drawing princely league salary.
There is no such thing as mans rights
and woman's rights separate and distinct
from each other. Woman's rights are
simply human rights. The sexes belong
to each other; what benefits one helps the
other; what elevates either uplifts both.
Man is the outdoor and woman the in
door partner in the firm of humanity.
''Talk about Col. Mann's safe full of
scandals" said the telephone girl, che
doesn't know what scandal is. He ought
to be telephone girl for little while if
ne wants to know what people are doing.
| tell You it is amazing what grown
people will trust to telephone girls ears.
There isn't day but that we do not hear
appointments and discussions of things
done the night before that would turn af-
fairs upside down if we ever told them.
Men and women talk as freely over the
phone as though they were marooned on
an uninhabited island. They use their
own names and the names of others inter-
ested with the most startling freedom and
frankness.
Here are few we'll defined words and
it may do you good to remember them:
Appendicitis modern pain costing 5000
more than the old.fashioned stomach
ache. Collector-a man whom few care
to see but many ask to call again. Echo
the only thing that can cheat a woman
out of the last word. Evolution-clever
trick performed by one Darwin who made
a monkey out of Adam. Hug-a round
about way of expressing affection. Jury
twelve men chosen to decide who is the
best lawyer. Love-a mans insane de-
sire to become woman's meal ticket.
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IMPROVEMENT OF THE HUMAN RACE

To make the human race physically
and morally perfect, and to accomplish
that end by rearing children by the ap
plication of scientific principles which h
have wrought miracles with plants, is the
one great ambition of Luther Burbank,
the famous California horticulturist.
MIR. Burbank believes that every person
could become physically, spiritually and
morally perfect if subjected to the same
care and treatment which he has given to
plants. 'rhe natures of growing children,
he said in an interview with Rev. DIR.
James W. Lee, of st. Louis, should be
brought in relation with all elements in
their environment to which they are po-
tentially responsive"
Burbank declares that plants, weeds
and trees are responsive to only a few in
fluences in their environment, while chill
dren are infinitely more responsive and a
failure to recognize certain spiritual ele-
ments, i'll their surroundings has been the
fatal lack of dealing with growing chill
dren
DIR. Lee told Burbank that some 6O,OOO
waits had been educated in London
homes in the last few years, and only 2
per cent. OF them had turned out bad.
This was due to Thos. J. Bernardo, OF
London, and Burbank replied that he was
doing the same thing with plants that
Bernardo was doing with children. Bur-
bank hopes he may be able to dupli-
cate the work of Bernardo and carry it far
ther.
Or. Gertrude Bodtish, president of the
Ladies Physiological Institute, says: 'The
only way the human race can be i'm
proved is by carefully reared children;
yes, call them scientifically cultured, if
you choose. We are raising criminals,
now, just as fast as we can. A perfect
marriage is the beginning. l believe,
with Mr.. Burbank, that children should
be raised by the same scientific methods
that plants are"
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-09-16
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
THE SUNBEAM
BY A. !. BUCHANAN

BY A. !. BUCHANAN
Down it came dancing, dancing,
Straight from the land Of light,
In through poor attic window,
Making the darkness bright.
Glanced off broken mirror
On to an old armchair,
Lit up pale-faced sufferer,
YEARLY tossing there.
Brought with it hope and gladness,
Soothing the restless boy,
Lulled him to sleep with bright visions
Whispered Of health and joy.
And to far-off country,
Washed by refreshing streams,
Guided his slumbering spirit
Into the land Of dreams.
Then when its task was over,
Softly fioated away,
Back to its home in the sunshine,
Its mission fulfilled that day.
Oh ! to be like that sunbeam,
Shedding forth light and love,
Then when our labor is ended,
To pass to the light above.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-09-16
MILK AND KINDNESS

If you work at the dairy farm Of Mrs.
Addie +. Howie you must say "Good
Morning" to her cows.
Eleven years ago Mrs. Howie was Mil
waukee society woman. Now she is the
acknowledged authority on Jersey cattle
breeding i'll this country.
More than that She is on the staff Of
the Wisconsin Agricultural college as a
lecturer and students OF dairy work and
stock breeding come from all over the
country to attend her lectures. Eleven
years ago she was 'afraid to look at a
cow" as she puts it,
What new thing has this successful wo
man contributed to the science of cattle
breeding? Chiefly this: She employs
kindness.
Now you would scarcely suppose that
the yield of cows milk could be doubled
BY kindness Mrs. Howie has proved
that to be true
She says every stroke of petting, every
word OF love and every bit of apprecia-
ton and attention bestowed on COW will
come back to you in dollars and cents.
"Put in affection with your scientific
feeding and promise it will pay you."
For instance: Mrs. Howie coaxed and
caressed twenty-five pounds and five
ounces OF butter out Of Sadie LIE Pet, one
OF her favorites, in seven days. She sells
calves for $500 apiece and they are be-
spoken before they are born. And her
cows take first prizes wherever they are
shown.
VI course you must really love your
COW II you want to double her yield of
milk by kindness. Mrs. HOWE is in love
with her pretty creatures.
Isn't the wolnan's theory fine? And it
has its uses
You may lecture brutal owner of a,
COW about being kind to all of Gods
creatures and it will never get under his
skin. But show him that he is cheating
himself out Of dollars-that's another
story.
II can't do it'' never did ANYTHING.
'I'll try" has worked wonders. and II
will do it" has performed miracles.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-09-16

The diarymen around little town in
Wisconsin have over 100000 in one little
bank.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-09-16
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN

A woman is a puzzle that there is n
answer to.
The plain gored skirt is becoming NOR
popular.
Wash fannels are out in hundreds o
new designs.
When tie stork visits home it leaye
/ a how ling reminder behind.
A woman doesn't have to be thin to gt
through her husbands pockets.
It's the most difficult thing in the
world to forget what you want TO forget.
There are three things that few women
can keep-youth, money and secrets.
1t is not at all necessary for woman
to learn jiu jitsu in order to know how to
| throw man down.
Over one fourth of China's population
of 100000 is slaves. Every family OF
means keeps its girl slaves.
California women's clubs have decided
this year to study their own state and
will study the poets and scientists.
When girls return from the sea beach
they never show the extent of their tan.
| They don't wear the bathing suits in
| town.
Mrs. Ellis Rowan, the famous flower
artist, has been offered $4,000 by the
German government for her 500 Austria
liam flower pictures.
Over $4,000 women are organized in
the United Presbyterian Church of the
United States. Last year they raised and
administered over 100000.
Miss Nell Haven of San Francisco, CAL,
is said to be the only woman in the
United States who is recognized by the
government as an expert of photography.
Miss Elizabeth O'Neill is supervisor OF
the school summer Fairgrounds of Phila-
delphia. There are thirty-ive play
grounds, annually attended by 10000
children.
The Japs excel in cooking rice and
their method is exceedingly simple. Put
one cupfui OF rice which has been thor
oughly washed over the fire with five of
fast boiling water. Add salt, and when
it has boiled fast for fifteen minutes, set
the saucepan, uncovered, in moderate
oven. In fifteen minutes the water will
have completely evaporated and every
grain be distinct and fluffy. Not grain
will stick to the saucepan.
1t is about time to end this Edward
Atkinson talk about woman dressing on
$65 year. The proprieties and the law
requires that she wear something besides
hat.
More than o50,0O0 girls in India, five
years of age or less, were already married
when the last census was taken, and of
these necessarily many have become
widows.
The princess gown is gaining in popular |
ity, fact strongly evidenced at summer |
resorts, where every well-dressed woman
includes at least one gown OF this sort in |
her wardrobe.
''It appears" said Mr.. Henpeck, "that |
the female mosquito is the one that |
spreads yellow fever" "Of course" re-
piled his wife. "You couldn't expect
male to get out and show any spunk.n
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-06-21
SAFE BLOWER
SHOOTS A
POLICEMAN

Chicago. Ill, June 21.-I ma pistol hght
early today between alleged safe blowers
and policemen. Patrolman William Nc
Geohegan was probably fatally injured
and John Maloney. alleged TO have been
one OF the cracksmen, was wounded In
the stomach and leg.
Six policemen answered the alarm OF
an explosion In the butcher shop or David
schontz in the stock yards district. Two
men were trying 10 make their escape
when the policemen arrived. McGeohegan
rushed up 10 Maloney, both firing their
revolvers rapidly.
Maloney was hit twice and the officer
received wounds I'm the right arm and
mouth McGeohegan was found uncon-
scious. Maloneys companion, who gave
his name as John O'Hearn, was captured
by the other officer and beaten into sub
mission.
The robbers used an overcharge OF
nitro glycerine. which blew out one side
of the building and shattered several
windows In the neighborhood.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-06-21

From the extreme secrecy observed the
matter beyond doubt is one OF the great
est delicacy, but as the statement is
vouchsafed at the foreign office that the
negotiations are proceeding without a
hitch, the inference follows that 1t re-
lates 10 a new phase in which the presi-
dent has again taken the initiative.
THIS is the more certain since the com
muncstions between the belligerents Ie-
lating strictly TO the questions OF the Sc
lection OF place, time and the number Of
plenipotentiaries were conducted natural
ly through Ambassador Cassini and Min
lister Tskafira, through the intermediary
OF the Washington government. whereas
according TO diplomatic procedure only
communications from the Washington
government reach Foreign Minister Lams-
dorff through Ambassador Meyer.
WITH JOYFUL ACCLAIM
ST. Petersburg. June H.-The impression
produced by Emperor Nicholas speech
Monday at Petershof 10 the delegate
representing the all Russian congress of
Zemstvoists and Mayors. which assembled
at Moscow is reflected in the joyful ac-
claim with which IL has been received by
the Russian press
The question OF peace and the reports
that another great battle has begun in
Manchuria have become OF secondary inn
portance in the public mind before the
great fact that the Emperor has again
pledged himself TO popular representa-
tion.
The Russ declares that the history of
representative government in Russia
dates from Whitmonday
"A hundred commissions celebrating
schemes for reform, the paper continues.
could not inspire the people with as
much hope in the future of Russia. as the
emperor's words TO the delegation whose
members were characterized as traitors,
conspirators and revolutionists by the re-
actionaries. The fight is not yet won.
The bureaucracy will not capitulate with
out further struggle, but the most i'm
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-06-21
SNATCHEO WRIST BAG
ThIsfs Capture Was Aided by the Efforts Of
a Blind Man.

An attempt to steal a wrist bag from
Elnor Daverson, a restaurant employe,
was made on Canal street at 1910 o'clock
this morning
When the bag had been appropriated
and the thief was running away with II,
the woman screamed
Her outcry attracted the attention of
a blind musician, who standing in the
middle Of browne street, swung his cane
so vigorously that the thief could not get
by him.
Patromen McCartin and Perkins saw
the thief throw away the bag and chased
him 10 North Main street, where they
effected a capture.
In the police court today the culpr,t.
Daniel Jones. was fined 81 and costs and
was then held until the wrist bag cpl
sode could be investigated.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-06-21
LAST EFFORT,
FOR ROGERS
WOMAN

Windsor. VT, June 21.-Upon request of
Attorney General Clarke c. Fits the
hearing on the writ OF habeas corpus in
the case of Mrs. Mary NJ Rogers was
arranged to be held in Brattleboro this
afternoon, rather than at the court house
in Windsor.
II was understood that Mrs. Rogers
would be escorted to Brattleboro on the
1920 p. N. train in order that she might
be present in person at the hearing before
Judge II, II. Wheeler sitting as n justice
OF the United States circuit court
The change OF the place of hearing
caused considerable activity at the state
prison, In the midst OF this SHperinten-
dent Lowell received typewriter letter
from Boston. containing n package OF
poison and an offer OF $1,000 provided he
administered the poison 10 Mrs. Rogers
Mr.. Lowell Immediately made the letter
public and retained the poison powder.
at the same time turning the entire mat
ter over 20 the United States authorities
for investigation.
The envelope containing the letter,
showed that The communication was mail
ed at Boston at 2 o'clock yesterday after
noon IL was addressed 10 Supt Lowell at
the state prison and was also marked
Immediate and personal"
The letter itself was as follows:
Boston, June 1s.-Dear Supt: Now
that there appears to be little hope for
poor Mrs. Rogers, ! feel constrained TO
make this appeal even though this should
be the last act OF my life I wish TO make
the effort TO save the state OF Vermont
and all womankind from this intended dis
grace. Will you listen. and will you act?
Arrange for her 10 take the enclosed
powder and II the gallows are cheated next
Friday I will mail you the day after two
one thousand dollar billsCs2OoO) 10 be sent
20 you in such a way as TO eliminate all
suspicion. This is no hoax. Try me and
see. Should further details he desired in
sert a personal I'm the Boston Globe. ad-
dressed TO Justice"
The letter bore no signature
Shortly after noon Mrs. Rogers was
made ready for the journey to Brattle-
bOrc under the escort or Superintendent
Lowell. Sheriff Henry II, Peck and
deputies. The woman was conducted 90
a closed carriage from the prison Office
Residents and visitors generally ac-
ceded TO the request of the officials not
q group about the prison doors when
tho woman left. Mrs. Rogers wore a
dark dress and her face was concealed by
a veil.
At the station number OF people con-
gTegHrpd. but The offIcoTs saw 10 ID that
the condemned woman was submitted TO
little public notice
The train was due at Brattleboro short
ly after 2 O'Clock.