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Middletown transcript., 1905-06-24
| Communicated.
THE MAN ABOUT TOWN

lie still sees the Saturday night nui-
sance continued. Why is this? That's
a fair question, when thing becomes
nuisance, and the authorities are made
aware Of it, there should be some action
taken by them to stop it or at least abate
IT. II their Police are not capable of
performing plain duty, then get some
who are capable and will do it. This
nuisance | will name again-the crowd
ing and lining up on our sidewalks and
crossings and near them. by the negro
element. 1t is getting more and more Of a
nuisance all the time The writer can .,ot
understand why some action is not taken
to stop it. 1t without doubt, seriously
interiors with tile business OF the ice
cream and refreshment parlors. Many
ladies 20 without things they would like
TO purchase OH Saturday evening, sooner
than push and crowd their way through
lot Of impudent negroes. Some few
merchants may think they are netting
profit by catering to these darkies, but
they are mistaken. BY keeping their
stores clear Of loafing crowd OF darkies
they would be the gamers. It is exceed
lngy unpleasant for a white man or
woman to 90 in store with crowd Of
darkies lined lip against the counters, to
say nothing Of the sidewalk and doorway.
Mr.. Merchant, why should they not |
be waited upon as others people and be
requested to pass out Of the way? Seem
lngly ynn are allowing them liberty you'll
would not allow Others. You can help
abate this nuisance, and if the authorities
take the matter in hand in proper man.
her, this nuisance will cease to exist. II /
all viii study this question carefully they
will see that the hotels are the only gain
ers by the existing conditions. Let the /
white man or woman have an equal right
as well as comfort in walking our streets
any evening. No class has any right,
any lawful right, to monopoly of our
streets or any part Of them. CITIZEN.
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uates are those of Bishop McVickar OF
Rhode Island in his address to the grad
uating class OF Bryn Mawr College aud
Supreme Court Justice David ]. Brewer
in his address at Vassar College. Bishop
McVickar said:
II hope and pray that We may see
woman suffrage come to pass soon. In
this fuller citizenship there is no chance
that woman would unsex herself. | be-
lieve that the paths she would walk in
would not only be frightened, but they
would be Strengthened"
Justice Brewer after expressing his be-
lief in woman suffrage said:
"Who shall say that before gray hair
shall cover the heads of the women here
tonight there may not sit in the White
House a woman who, like Queen Vic
toria, will shed lustre upon this country
as Victoria shed lustre upon England. !"
ELNoRA MONROE BABcocK.
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UNITED STATES JURORS

In the United States Court on Tuesday
petit jury for the present term Of the
Circuit Court was drawn by Jury Com
missioners William G. Mahaffv and J..
Wilkins Cooch. For the first time in
several years the name OF colored man
was drawn but the man is dead. The
name was that Of Daniel P. Hamilton, at
one time well known colored resident
Of Wilmington. The jury drawn was as
follows:
Wilmington-James S. Dobb, James
N. Bryan, ]. Smith Bremen, Joseph 2.
Cross, Charles q. Phillips, James |. Ford,
Jesse K. Baylis, G. Parke Postles, Daniel
Hamilton, colored, Peter A. Horty, Ell
wood G. Jackson, Edgar Chandler, Lewis
Sasse, J. Morton Poole, Elmer L. Nit
chell, Samuel ]. White, Victor dupont.
Sr.
Christiana hundred-Thomas d. Ly-
nam, Philip F. dupont.
White Clay Creek-James L. Crossan.
James Hosslnger.
Mill Creek-John M. Ball.
Pencader-T. Roseby McMuIlen.
New Castle-John I. Hayes.
APPOINTMENTS n. Moore.
South Murderkill hundred, Kent
Hughes.
Duck Creek-Harry A. Tschudy.
Mispillion-Willis Lytton.
Seaford hundred, Sussex county-David
NJ. Johnson, Samuel B. Pusey, Isaac ).
Giles, Thomas II. Rawlins.
Little Creek-Emory B. Rigein, ).
Walter Anderson.
Northwest Fork-George w. Willin.
July 9th was fixed as the date for hear
ing the suit of Bashor IS. the Peoples
Railway Company, and July 10Th ~ tile
time for hearing the suit of Annie Butler
known as Annie Oakley, against the !
Every Evening Printing Company, for !
libel. No date has been fixed for the
hearing of the other numerous cases
which are pending in tile court.
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WARWICK

The Rev. Frank S. Cain was in Bati
more last week.
Mr., John 7. Manlove visited Mr.. w.
7. Vineyard on Sunday.
Miss Helen Eaton visited Mrs. Harry
L. Simmons, near Sassafras, Saturday
and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Uric P. CHM, Of near
Odessa, visited Mrs. Verena C. Vineyard
on Saturday.
Washington Camp, No. s, P 0. 5. OF
A., meets every Tuesday evening in Mer-
ritts Hall at o'clock.
Mesxrs E. E. Marsh and John Fl. NJ.
Garner visited Mr.. R. Delbert Akin in
Delaware City on Sunday.
Mrs. John Ernest, Of Sassafras, ac-
companied by her son John, were the
guests OF Mrs. Sallie Gunkle Monday.
Miss Ella G. Lynch, of EIkton, who
has been the guest Of Mrs Wilson Mer.
rift returned to her home on Tuesday.
few of our young people attended
the commencement exercises at tile
Middletown Opera House last Monday
evening.
The reaper has been running constantly
in this ne ighborhood since Monday
morni ng, and we imagine that there is
but little wheat standing.
George Savin who was employed BY
Herbert Conner about one and one-half
miles from town, took his life on Tues
day by hanging himself in the barn.
The Junior Christian Endeavor Society
held their annual picnic in Mr.. John
McCrone's woods, near town. The chill
dren all express themselves as having
spent a most pleasant afternoon.
Owing to the re-opening of the church
at sassafras there will be no preaching or
G. L. meeting at Warwick on Sunday
next 18th inst. Sunday School at A.
NJ, instead of the usual hour 9.30
The re-opening Of Rehoboth Methodist
Protestant Church will take place on
Sunday next, June 25th Services,
morning, 1890 preaching"by Rev. F. T.
Tagg, d. d., Of Baltimore. Evening at
s O'Clock, preaching by visiting minis
ter. Public cordially invited to come
and worship with US. No services will
be held in afternoon, only morning and
evening.
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in PHILADELPHIA

1.-The Philadelphia gang is
growing more demoralized every
hour, and the mayor and his sup
porters more confident. The
machine signifies its willingness
TO take down its ticket, nominate
another of the kind the People
want and institute every reform
demanded. 1t even offers to call
an extra session Of the Legisla-
ture to pass personal registra-
ton law and repeal the "ripper :
bills.
But hemayoris notinterested
in these assurances of a change
Of heart. Every day he orders
o new arrest. and every 1lav
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BUY YOUR OWN PAPER

man who was too economical to SUBJ
scribe for his home paper sent his little
boy to borrow the copy taken by his
neigllbor. In his haste the boy ran over
81 stand of bees and in ten minutes
looked like warty summer squash. His
cries reached lis father, who ran to his
assistance. and, failing to notice a barbsd
wire fence, ran into it, breaking it down,
cutting handful of flesh from his anat-
omy and running S. pair Of pants. The
old COW took advantage Of the gap in the
fence and got into the corn field and
killed herself eating green corn. Hear
ing the racket, the wife ran, upset four
gallon cllurn OF rich cream into bas-
ket Of kittens, drowning the whole flock.
In her hurry size dropped SIS setof false
teeth: The baby, left alone, crawled
through the spilled cream and into the
parlor, running $40 carpet. During the
excitement the oldest daughter ran away
with the hired man, the dog broke up
eleven setting hens, and the calves got
ont and ehewed the tails off fonr fine
shirts,
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PENINSULA SHIP CANAL

The revival Of the proposition to build
| the Maryland and Delaware Ship Canal
SO as to bring the port Of Baltimore nearer
the ocean and save the long trip to and
from the Capes, is being received with
favor. 1t is probable that some definite
steps toward carrying out the project will
| be taken in the near future and the prop
osition be made fact.
In discussing this proposed ship canal,
there are only three routes to be consid-
cred. The first is the Choptank route,
the second direct route via Centreville
and the third the Sassafras route.
By the Choptank the distance from
Baltimore to the ocean is $50 miles, the
number of miles saved over the present
route to the ocean via the Chesapeake
Bay entirely being l75 miles and the es-
timated cost So, 10000
BY the Sassafras River route the dis
lance to the sea is 129 miles, saving Of
1856 miles, and the cost will not be over
100000.
The Sassafras River and Blackbird
Creek, on this last route are partially ex-
cavated by nature and the waterway can
be constructed for the price mentioned
and lower, figure, owing to the modern
methods employed in excavating.
Tie United States engineers have re-
ported that the Sassafras River route has
no obstacles, no quick sand and no rock,
the soil being chiefly clay and other soils
admirably adapted to the present system
Of hydraulic dredgings.
The question of ice in the winter and
its obstruction to navigation is not greater
in the bay for 80 miles north of North
Point.
A canal by the Choptank route would |
cost double that of Sassafras River and is
20 miles further and four and one half |
hours longer each trip. 1t would require |
bridges and tide locks. This route would |
also require miles Of breakwater and its |
ocean outlet would be at one Of the most /
dangerous points on the coast.
The mouth OF the Sassafras River is rs |
miles from Seyen-Foot Knoll and % miles \
to Townsend. The canal itself would be
is miles from water to water. From Bal
timore via the Chesapeake capes to the
capes Of Delaware at the mouth OF Della
ware Bay the distance is 325 miles, as it
can be seen what great saving Of time
would be made if Baltimore had the Della
ware and Maryland ship canals.
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THAT REBATE

AS a surprise, comes the an
nouncement that the last Legis.
lature so amended our tax laws
that the rebate of five per cent. is
only operative in July. When
the law was first passed in 1901,
the above provision applied. but,
as the large taxpayers Of Will
mington, having their city taxes
to pay in July, complained, the
legislature extended the time
until September both, which date
had given entire satisfaction.
No good reason has yet been as
signed for the change, and had
the proposition have been under
stood when it was before the
Legislature, it could have been
defeated. Now it is too late.
The statement or explanation
was given out that the Levy
Court desired to get the taxes in.
This would be a good excuse, if,
as was formerly the case, the
county needed the money at this
time. But with a cash balance
Of approximately 100000 at all
times, laying in the bank and
drawing no interest, it really
seems like an imposition to re-
quire taxpayers to advance about
as much more. Many Of the
people who have been in the
habit Of paying their taxes
promptly TO save the five per
cent. are poor, and it is serious
matter to them whether they
shall pay all their taxes in one
month or have the time spread
over three months. If they had
known It was coming, some pro-
vision could have been made.
Fortunately, it does nota affect the
taxables Of Middletown SO much,
as our town taxes run till Sep
TENDER Both, for the rebate, and
1t will be necessary only to pay
the county, road and poor taxes
in the next month.
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ST. GEORGES

Miss Ida Wright spent Sunday in
Philadelphia.
Miss Florence Cox is visiting Miss
Edna Lilly in Newark.
Mrs. Henry Lester, OF Philadelphia, is
visiting her son, John Lester.
Mrs. Abbie Buckson, Of Stanton, is
visiting her son, Harry v Buckson.
Miss Fife White, of Clayton, is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Frank Peterson.
]. Chandler Pyle, of Wilmington, spent
Sunday With. w. Carrow and family.
Miss Ida Gray spent Sunday with her
sister, Mrs. Albert Grimes, of Damascus.
Mrs. Annie Price, of Millington, Md,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. John II. Nell
son.
Miss Bessie Davidson was the guest of
Misses Blanche and Maybel Jores on
Sunday.
Ralph Clark, Of Philadelphia, spent
Sunday with his parents, Miles Clark
and wife.
Mrs. kellogg and Mrs Charles McNamee,
Of near Newark, spent Sunday with Mrs.
Laura Jones.
Mrs. Wilson Hopkins and son Robert
are spending sometime with her brother,
John Lester.
Miss M. Gertrude Swain is spending
this week with relatives and friends in
Philadelphia.
Miss Katherine B. Swain, of Philadel-
phia, was Sunday visitor at the home
OF her parents.
William Walt and wife, Of New York,
are spending few days with his mother,
Mrs. Charles Stewart.
Miss Mollie Taylor has returned home
from Philadelphia after spending several
weeks with her brother.
Mrs. Howard Othoson and son
Howard, of Philadelphia, are visiting
relatives and friends here.
Rev. w. Beal, of Rock and Zion
Churches, was the guest of Rev. J. R.
Milligan and family last week.
Messrs. Ralph and Arthur Gravett, OF
Glasgow, spent Sunday with their grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Fl. Swain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Buckson on Sun
day entertained Mr.. Hannah and Mr..
Cooling, of Wilmington, and Mr.. Horace
Simmons.
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M1DDLErowN, DEL, JUNE "a, 1905.
THE SCHEME WILL NOT WORK

A prominent resident of the
First Ward in the City Of Will
mington said to US the other day,
II have been living and voting in
the First Ward for twenty years,
and the City Election always
comes in the odd numbered year.
There have been twenty cleo
tions, at nineteen of which the
Democrats carried the ward.
Nineteen times, when the count
was made, the election was over.
But the Republicans carried the
ward this time and the election
has only commenced" Taking
advantage of an old provision Of
the charter, applying to a time
when the eAieefs newly elected
took their positions on the day
following the election, the Demo
Gratis have filed a contest against
Howard D. Ross, the Council
man-elect from the First Ward.
Of course, the true reason for the
contest lies in the fact that Mr..
Ross election makes the Council
Republican, in spite of the Demo
cratic gerrymander. tits now
proposed to have the old Council
pass upon the qualifications Of
the new Council which does not
meet until July LIST. This is SO
absurd as to be positively silly.
If there is any one feature Of the
American system Of government
that is well established, it is that
each legislative body is the sole
judge of the election and qualifi-
cation of its own members. TO
admit any other principle would
be to turn the country over to
anarchy. If the present Council
of Wilmington has the right to
pass upon Mr.. Ross election
from the First Ward, and to seat
his Democratic opponent, the
next Council with it's Democratic
majority thus made, can pass
upon the election Of all Republi-
can members elected to the sue.
ceeding Council, and declare all |
Democratic opponents seated,
and so on, ad libitum. Thus
government would be
come a farce, and elections worse
than useless.
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.oLD DELAWARE CLOSES
With Drill by Cadets, Alumni Meeting
and Commencement Dance

Once more has "Old Delaware" closed
her doors for the summer months alter
having turned out into the world a class
Of twenty-five graduates who will work
out their paths in life in the different
branches of pursuits for which they have
become qualified.
Following the graduating exercises
Wednesday morning the Delaware Col
lege Cadets, Captain Z. W. McCaskey,
military instructor of the institution in
command, gave an exhibition drill in the
field in the rear of the college.
The competition for the Roberts medal
covered the entire maneuvers and Com
pany A was declared the winner. The
judges we're Captain S. II. Hossinger and
Captain Medil and Lieutenant Bowen Of
Company E, First Delaware Infantry,
stationed at Newark.
Promotions Announced
Captain McCaskey issued all order, an
nouncing the following promotions in the
cadet battalion
Major-Moore.
Captains-Company A, Griffith; Com
pany B, Stewart.
Adjutant-Crames.
Quartermaster-
First Lieutenant-Company A, Fader !;
Lewes, Company B, Clash and Taggart.
Artillery, Lovett and Murray; signal
corps, Fulton and Hardness,
Second Lieutenant Company A, Wyatt
and Shaffer; Company B, Foster and
Derby; artillery, Ward and Hauber; sig
nal corps, Lawson and Edwards.
Sergeant Major-Messick.
Quartermaster Sergeant-Keppell.
Color Sergeant-Griffin.
sergeant-Company A, Warrington, F.
Smith, Hudson, Perkins, Homewood.
Company B-Rossell, McFarlin. Bell,
Buckmaster, Diffenderfer. lArtillery, Ste
vens, ]. Smith, Singles, Crossan, Cooper.
Signal-Francis, Voss, Ridgely, Price,
Blake.
Corporals Company A, Collins, Tay-
Tor, Stokley, Evans. Company B-Kil-
len, Herman, Torbert, Tinney. Artillery
-McCaskey, Atkins, Brown, Ward.
Signal-Taubenhaus, Stubs, Draper,
Mulligan.
Delaware Alumni
During the afternoon the annual meet
ing Of the Delaware College Alumni As
ISOLATION was held and officers for the en-
suing years were elected.
They were as follows: President, Rich
ard I. Pilling; vice-president, William FL.
Head, of Wilmington; secretary and
treasurer, Clarence A. Short, Of Newark.
A committee comprising f. w. Curtis,
Lucien Green and the Rev. J. I'll. Nit
chell was appointed to devise ways and
means Of making the Alumni Associa-
ton more active in behalf Of its alma
mater, and also to cooperate with the
athletic committee comprising Mr.. Short,
DIR. w. H. Steel, Joseph H. Hossinger
and Lee 0. Willis, in trying to establish
an athletic fund for the college.
Commencement Dance
The commencement dance given in the
drill room in recitation hall "Wednesday |
evening by the junior class in honor Of
The graduating class closed the exercises
If the year.
The large room was decorated with the |
college colors and with ferns, palms and |
laisies in profusion, while FRONT he out
tide Of the building the letter "D'' blazed
orth in electric lights.
About two hundred persons attended
he dance in the course Of the night, and
music was furnished by the orchestra
rom the Bellevue Stratford II otel, Phil
Idelphia.
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EGGS FOR HATCHING.-Sinele
Comb Brown Leghorns seventy five cents
per setting of 10 from my great laying
strain. Send for circular and prices by
the hundred. L. E. CLAYTON,
Mt. Pleasant, DEL.
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THE WOMAN'S PAPER

THE Sun is the best type of news
paper, morally and intellectually. In
addition to the news of the day, it pub
fishes the best features that can be pre-
sented, such as fashion articles, and mis-
cellaneous writings from men and women
of note and prominence. 1t is an educa-
tor of the highest character, constantly
stimulating to noble ideals in individual
and national life.
THE Sun is published on Sunday as
we'll as every other day of the week
BY. Mail the Daily Sun, SO a year in
Guiding the Sunday Sun, 81. The Sunday
Sun alone, 81 a year.
Address
A. s. ABEL COMPANY,
Publishers and Proprietors,
BALTIMORE, MD.
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THE FARMERS PAPER

THE Suns market reports and com
mercial columns are complete and re-
liable, and put the farmer, the merchant
and the broker in touch with the markets
of Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston, New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia and all other
important points in the United States
and other countries. All of which the
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THE SUN AT ONE CENT
Is The Cheapest High-Class PAPER !
The United States

THE SUNS special correspondents
throughout the United States, as well as
in Europe, China, South Africa, sthe
Philippines, Porto Rico, Gu ba and in
every other part of the world, make it
the greatest newspaper that can he
printed.
Its Washington and New York bureaus
are among the best in the United States,
and give THE Suns readers the earliest
information upon all important events in
the legislative and financial centers of
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FOR SALE

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Milford, Delaware.
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JAMES B. GARRISON, Vice President,
JOHN S. RossELL, Secy and TIq,st Officer,
L. ScoTr TOWNSEND, Treasurer.
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-11-04
Desde Washington
Octubre 10 de 1905.

OCluOIC = 10 QC 1905.
*Agreed as to Asia" es ell tftulo de
Jun despacho de Paris, hoy publicade
|aqui. De San Petersburgo han diche
Il IN peri6dico parisiense que Ingla
terra y Russia Sc han entendido acercs
de los asuntos asiaticos; 10 cual sig
|nifica que Sc ha llegado a una delimi
tacion de las esferas britanica russ
de infiuencia. Grap noticia, ST es cier
ta. porque v1ene reforzar ia situa-
|ci6n de pa2, en- que, al parecer, sc
|ha entrado desde que Sc acab6 Ia
guerra ruso-ja ponesa.
Siempre ha habido en- Inglaterra
asi entire los conservadores como en-
tire los liberales, partidarios de ur
|acuerdo con Russia. Hasta ahora. nc
|ha sido possible, por culpa de amba:
|naciones; atcra, Sc 10 impone q 10:
|ingleses, la necesidad de aplacar
|Rusia, de hacerla olvidar que aqua
ron al Jap6n contra ella y de utilizar-
la contra Alemania y, tambien. la fuer
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|bo de la rotaci6n del globo. como las
|baudas ecuatoriales del planeta uplter
Y despuss de hab1ar sobre las gran
des corrientes marinas; creo oportuno
llamar la atencion sobre otras peque
6as corrientes 6 manchss que Sc OBJ
servan en- la super6cie del mar. Mu
chos curiosos 10 habran notado. Cuan-
do estan las aguas relativsmente sose
sadas dibujandose en- la planicie del
mar unas manchas 6 vetas de d1teren-
tie brillo. Observadas de cerca. vesej
que las de tono mate oscuro tlenen UNI
oleaje rizado mas pequeho y las de
aspecto brillante suelen formar ondas
I'm As extensas suaves. "a que ODE
deceran estas manchas? No he podi
do averiguarlo, nj 10 he visto explica
|do en- ning1n libro. No son permaa
|nentes. Suelen variar en- question de
|horas. pero es precise fjar mucho la
|atencion para yer como cambian.
No son corrientes, porque mucna'
kienen forma oval circular. Algunas
parecen largas y estrechas Por uh
efecto de perspective.
Me inclino pensar que la causa del
estas manchas es debida corTientes|
aisladas y suaves, que
rozan el mar tangencialmente en- ciei
tos puntos y f,rman csc peque no olea
lie rizado.