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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-23

of American goods. which actually has begun in a half dozen big cities and which. 1t is believed. will spread
 The Chinese Government, as a matter of form. has issued a special order de- nouncing the proposed boycott, tecit . ing the fact that the United States. more than any one nation, was a firm friend of China at the time when all the rest of the world was ready to destroy the Empire.
 The unpleasant feature Of the case is that the State Department has bee', unable to devise any method of convinc- Ing the Chinese that the United States still Is friendly.
 Cannot Let Down Bars.
 The sentiment in this country would not justify any serious letting down of the exclusion bars. It Is impossible for the State apartment to promise any modifcat' of the law.
 The boyce 5f American goods is a commercial VAe entirely, and as 1t Is
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-23

State Department found itself unable to negotiate a treaty which provided for any material softening down of our exclusion laws
 The result has been seen Immediately, and last year our export of cotton cloth to China amounted to only 76.sS6,534 wards, valued at the export price of $4,000.952. This means our trade with China last year was only 25 per cent of what 1t was two years before so far as cotton cloth is concerned.
 Have Lost All Recent Gains.
 We have dropped back to the insignl- cant position in Chinese commerce which we held just prior to the Spanish war. All prestige in the Orient. acduir- ed In that conflict. and the natural com mercial friendliness which followed upon our attitude in the Boxer troubles, have been dissipated by the boycott
 All reports received by the State De partment indicate that the boycott IS extremerly serious. The great commer-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-23

It is only in recent years that the cot ton mills of New England and finally those In the Southern States nave De come so strong that they couio export their ordinary nroducts in competition with the manufacturers of Germany France, and Great Britain.
 Immense Trade at Stake.
 Few people understand how our trade with China has jumped in the last elgnt years In 1895 we exported to the Chi nese Empire s7,S7224s yards of ordi- nary cotton cloth worth $1,70S,o2S. In 1902 our export trade with the Cninese had mounted up to 271oai,ove S'rus oi cotton cloth worth s16,3s2,esS.
 In point of ract. our export trade in manufactured cotton goods is practi- cally all Chinese An interference, therefore, with this market means A direct blow at the cotton oiis or 'he United States.
 It is not known generally that the boycott began some time ago. when the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-23

be foretold by various signs with surprising amount of accuracy. The following rules are laid down by an expert:
 Bees work with redoubled energy just before rain.
 If the flies are unusually persistent. either in the house or around cattle. there is rain in the air.
 Squirrels store a large supply of nuts. the husks of corn are unusually thick, and the buds of certain trees have a frmer protecting coat if a se- we're winter is at hand
 If the poplars and aspen leaves turn up the under side, rain will soon fol- low.
 Last, but not least, persons who sui fer from rheumatism can always tell by their feelings when a storm is ap- preaching, and in this method of pro. phesying many folk of today are as firm believers as were our forefathers."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-23
WE
 BUY CHEAPEST

based in the harsh treatment the Chi nese receive in this country the admin istration Is at a loss as to how to re- gain our ground in the Orient.
 When President Roosevelt announced publicly that the Chinese exclusion laws would not be enforced too harshly he went as far as he could under the constitution. Even this declaration was received with criticism on the Pa cihc slope. and no one knows better than Wu Tingfang. former Chinese Minister to the United States and now In control of the Chinese foreign trade bureau. that the American Congress will not modify the exclusion laws in the slightest degree.
 The Chinese are not compelled to buy in America. We have built up an enor- nous trade in the cheaper grades or white cotton goods with China. It is a trade. which, under ordinary circum- stances. is susceptible to vast expan- sion
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-23

cial societies of China, to one of which every Chinaman in this country Is af f1liated, are at the head of this move ment, which makes 1t all the more dan gerous.
 Most of these societies did a profit able business for years in forwarding Chinamen to this country, paying their passage and making other advances. being indemnified by a sort of appren- tice system. Each has its representa- tives in the United States and head quarters may be found in San Fran cisco. New York. Chicago and other cities.
 It is upon their direct report that Congress will not modify the exclusion laws, that the Chinese commercial com panies have decided for themselves to refuse to buy any more goods from the United States.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-23
Yard Wide Percale

1000 yards New Percales, full 36 inch wide in all kinds of pretty patterns, suitable for dresses, waists, blouses or mems and boys shirts, worth regularly 1Oc; for one day only the yard .... ..,. .. co. 6c
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-23
MILLIONS LOST BY
 CHINESE BOYCOTT
INABILITY OF ADMINISTRATION RE- SUITS IN DISASTER TO COMMERCE.
Cotton Trade is Ruined-LOss of United States Manufacturer Is Gain of European FactO-
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Washington Special t,

Washington Special to Chicago Tribune
 No foreign question now pending be fore the State Department Is giving half as much trouble as the settlement of our disturbed trade relations with Cuba It is beginning to be understood that the Chinese are in deadly earnest. and while tn eGovernment is not in- voived, the strongest commercial bodies i@ China arc rasnonStblS for the boycott
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-23
Sheets and Pillow Cases

Linen Finish Sheets, with three inch hemstitched hem; full 81x90, with no seams; worth regularly 65c;
 Monday each .... .. ..5Oc
 Ready Made Pillow Cases, size 45x36, made of excellent quality domestic; worth 124c; for Monday only,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-23
White Bod Spreads

100 White Crochet Bed {. Spreads, in neat Marseilles pat terms; full size and worth regu- lariy $1.0O; for a drawing card we will not sell over four to any
 customer, and had rather not
 sell but one to a customer; while they last
 each .... :. .... .. 59c
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-23

Will 1t RainS The coming state of the weather can
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-23
NOVELTY SILK WARP sUITING.

NOVELTY SILK WARP SUITING.
 beautiful ustrous Sung in both light and dark ground, mostly stripes with ring dot the warp all pure silk and is guaranteed to wash; picspan goods will make handsome suts goods that manufactured sell 1Sc
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-23
WOmen'S ChemiSe,
.s~ .-.t. -~t. Night Gowns.

The great offerings of includes gowns made of splendid quality musln neatly trimmed with dainty embrod, cry amply and supply of sze this garment be bought cheaper than the material alone would this seron may you smie but prove and will
 ing to do it; special price for Monday A0c at ...... ....f>S
Middletown transcript., 1905-08-12


For the benefit of those desiring to at
tend the meeting CT the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union OF America, to be held
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, August 8 to II, the
Pennsylvania R:ilroad Company will sell
excursion tickets to Wilkesbarre on Aug
ust s, 8, and 10, good for return passage
until August II, inclusive, from all sta
tiuhs on its lines in the State OF New
jersey; from all stations on the Maryland
andGentral Divisions of the Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington Railroad !;
from Wilmington, Townsend, and inter
mediate stations on the Delaware Divi-
sion from all stations on the Northern
Central Railway, Baltimore to Sunburry,
and Williamsport to Watkins, inclusive !;
from all stations on the Philadelphia and
Erie Railroad, including branches, east
OF and including Driftwood and from
all stations on the Pennsylvania Railroad
Division, including branch lines, east OF
and including Altoona, at rate of single
fare for the round trip, plus % cents
minimum rate, so cents). For specific
rates apply to nearest ticket sgent.
Middletown transcript., 1905-08-12
HARVESTING LESS EXPENSIVE

What great changes have come about in
the way of doing work in the past forty
years. The manner of cutting grain has
changed more than any thing else, and
with the change the expense has been
decreased, until to-day Investing is done
a. about one third the expense necessary
thirty and forty years ago. AT the time
hand rake reapers were in use the help
necessary through the harvest season was
a driver. a man to rake off four men to
bind and one to shock. Therefore it will
be seen that seven men were needed to
do what driver and a shocker will do
now. The work that to-day costs 81 per
day in the early times would have cost
from $l2 to $40 per day. OF course it
must be taken into consideration that the
machinery costs more than it did forty
years ago.
Middletown transcript., 1905-08-12
UNCLE SANS NEW FARMS

Director Charles D. Walcott OF the
United States Geological Survey states
that the government owns about 600,OOO,-
600 acres Of vacant land. OF this land
the greater part is arid About 6, 500. 900
acres is irrigated. There is water avail
able for many more. Most of this land
already irrigated is in Colorado and Cali
fornia. Much of the land will cost $25 or
$50 when provided with water. 1t is esti-
mated that if $500, 100000 was expended
during the next forty years in large
and consistent scheme of irrigation, the
lands improved would be worth bv the
end of that period, not less than $2,000,-
100000 Uncle Sam can still provide
us all farm, but it will be a more ex-
pensive one than those of the free-home-
steads of 100 years ago. But the new
farms are insured against drought-and
that is a pretty good thing.
Middletown transcript., 1905-08-12
LITTLE BROWN HANDS
ANONYMOUS

They drive home the COWS from the pas
ture
Up thro' the long shady lane,
Where the quail whistles loud in the
wheat field
That is yellow with ripening grain.
They find in the thick, waving grasses
Where the scarlet-lipped strawberry
grows;
They gather the earliest snowdrops
And the first crimson buds of the rose.
They toss the hay in the meadow,
They gather the elder bloom white;
They find where the dusky grapes purple
In the soft-tinted October light. =
They know where the apples hang ripest
And are sweeter than Italy's wines;
They know where the fruit hangs the
thickest
On the long, thorny blackberry vines.
They gather the delicate seaweeds.
And build tiny castles of sand
They pick up the beautiful seashells,
Fairy barks, that have drifted to land.
They wave from the tall, rocking tree
tops,
Where the orioles hammock nest
swings
And at night time are folded in slumber
By song that fond mother sings.
Those who toll bravely are strongest,
The humble and poor become great
And from those brown-handed children
Shall grow mighty rulers of state.
The pen OF the author and statesman,
The noble and wise of our land
The sword and the chisel and palette,
Shall be held in the little brown hand
Middletown transcript., 1905-08-12
0|L-GAS STOVES.

An Ideal Stove for Simmer and VIM
ter. Splendid for cooking Meats, Vege-
tables, Etc. Bakes finest Bread, Biscuits,
Cake, Pies, Etc. Ideal for Laundry work
and Canning Fruit. Nothing else like it.
With Radiator Attachment makes fine
Heating Stove for Falland Winter Won
derful improvement over other Stoves.
Automatically Generates 0il-Gas Fuel
from Kerosene or Common Lamp Oil by
Scientific yet simple method.
Safest. Cleanest Fuel on earth, Most
Convenient-Hot Fire, Intense Heat
Blue Flame. Similar in looks and heat
ing mower to Natural Gas.
No wick to trim, no dirt, no ashes no
kindling, no dust, no more big coal bills,
no more need of the dangerous gasoline
stoves or smoky cotton wick oil stove.
No valves to leak or clog. Simple in con-
struction, easily operated, SO durable
should last 10 years.
So safe you could drop a match in the
oil tank and it would not ignite.
Just Think A little Kerosene Oil
one match-quickly oil-gas is generated
and consumed and in five minutes you
have bright, blue gas fire no waiting
for meals-no time lost. In 10 to l5
minutes breakfast Is ready.
, 15c to 30c week should furnish oilgas
fuel for cooking for small family.
The Oil Used is the cheapest grade of
Kerosene or common coal oil-the same
| kind you use in your lamp-all grocers
sell it.
One gallon of oil should furnish Blue
| Flame Gas Fire in the Burner for about
Is hours.
The most wonderful Oil-Gas Stove ever
invented.
With Portable Oven You Can Do
Splendid Baking. Style, No. for one
bnrner $500 each. Style No. s, large for
or 3 burner stove, $2 50 each. With a
Radiator Attachment placed over the
burner you can use stove for heating
Price $1.75 each.
DON'T stand over that "Old Stove"
this summer and roast yourself, ruin your
looks, health and temper.
Think how much cleaner safer,
cheaper, more convenient and economical
than the other kinds
How Many Times Have You remarked
you would give ANYTHING to get rid of
| coal, wood or gasoline, all the dirt and
! have cool kitchen. Here's your chance.
We Fully Guarantee Every Stove to be
as represented and should it ever be pos-
sible that you receive any goods from us
not right, through any fault of ours, we
will gladly make them right, or replace
with new il we are notified or Refund
Your Money.
Sample Of these Stoves on exhibition
! at Miss E. f. Ingram's STORE, Middle
town, Del, and at the residence of Rev.
J. Ii. Nutter, Gen. Agt. Middletown,
Del.
Agents wanted. Good employment.
write General Agent for terms.
Middletown transcript., 1905-08-12
THE YELLOWSTONE PARK, LEWIS AND
CLARK EXPOSITION, AND THE ROCKY
MOUNTAINS

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has arranged a special PERSONAL Y con-
| Quoted tour to visit the Pacific Coast, in.
Guiding the Yellowstone Park, Portland
| (for the Lewis and Clark Expostion)
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.
ber o. 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, $20C-
from all points on the Pennsylvania Rail
road except Pittsburg, from which the
rate will be $195.
For itineraries and further information
apply to ticket agents &C. Studds, Eastern
Passenger Agent, 263 Fifth Avenue, New
York !; Hugh Hasson, Jr., Passenger
Agent Baltimore District, Baltimore, Nd; /;
B. NJ. Newbold, Passenger Agent South
eastern District, Washington, D. c.;
Thos. E. Watt, Passenger Agent Western
District, Pttsburg, Pa; or address Geo.
w. Boyd, General Passe niger Agent,
Philadelphia.
Middletown transcript., 1905-08-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pmngent Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

The Japs have bought thirty-four fine
horses in New York state for $4,000.
We wonder if it will be in heaven SC
that competitors will be the best ol
friends.
Statistics show that only 10 per cent. Of
the people who are run over by automo-
biles receive fatal injuries.
Part of the cargo of the steamship
Korea, which arrived at San Francist o
on July II, was 1914 800 worth of opium.
The business man who talks to the
readers of newspaper as he talks to the
customers in his store is the one who
| wins.
Henry James says the newspapers use
sloppy English" This is letting us
down easy. He might accuse us of
Singing bum grammar"
When mosquito sees a girl with a
seemore waist on he hurries back home
and invites all his family and the neigh
bors and friends to come to mis- party.
Thirteen carloads Of black walnut logs
were shipped from Stroud, Okla, to Ger
many, last week. Eight carloads more of
the same kind of timber are ready for
shipment.
In asserting that it will take ITO years
to build the Panama canal, Mr.. Yeomans
must have drawn his deductions from
the. manner in which Uucle Sam puts up
his public buildings.
The largest leaves in the world are
those of the Imai palm, which grows OH
the blanks of the Amazon. They reach
length of thirty to fifty feet, and are
from ten to twelve feet in breadth.
Another attempt to bring about the
raising of the battleship Maine in
Havana harbor has been abandoned after
the money had been secured and the
consent of the Cuban government OBJ
tanned.
A Kansas widower took his second wife
home and introduced her to the children
by saying: "This is your new mama"
They looked at her critically and the
youngest blurted out: sis that the best
you could do, papa? ?'
Print the grandest sermons that ever
fell from inspired lips and not 20 per
cent. OF the professedly pious will read
it. Print detailed account of some
extremely sensational case and 80 per
cent, will scan every line.
Morris Schateffer, 15.year-oId boy of
of Brooklyn, N. Y, who solved prot.
lem OF signaling for elevated roads was
offered a position as electrical engineer
at Sis, 900 year, but refused the offer in
order to remain in school.
When the long-distance wire now be-
ing laid between Denver, Omaha and
Kansas City has been completed, there
will be direct telephone communication
between New York and San Francisco,
which are nearly 1000 miles apart.
1t is now possible for three men, work
ing with hand machinery, to make 5000
cement bricks day. recently in
vented machine, employing five men be-
sides those who mix the cement, will, its
inventor asserts, make 5000 bricks an
hour
Middletown transcript., 1905-08-12
THE BOY WHO WORKS

Do you feel, young fellow, that you
have hard time? Your hours are long
Your task is hardsand the wages small
The contents of your weekly pay en-
velope will scarcely carry you over the
week. Sometimes you must wear
patched trousers or frayed coat. Your
employer expects great deal from you.
Other fellows dress well and always have
money. They have coddling fathers and
mothers while you toll six days week to
make living.
Never mind young man. You are
ahead of the boy who has every luxury at
home. You are getting experience that
he must get somehow later on. Because,
sooner or later, he must fight the real bat
tie of life himself. And you have the ad-
vantage. While life has been made easy
for him, he lacks drill and discipline
which every life-soldier must 60 through.
You are preparing yourself. He may go
in without preparation and fail.
Work is great blessing. You cannot
see now, but some day you will say that
you were fortunate in your boyhood DAYS
because you were compelled to work.
Because you cannot get power to do
things save by doing them. Look over
the successful men you know. Get their
history. Nearly everyone was compelled
to work in boyhood. They toughened
their muscles by hard work and sharp
ened their brains by looking out for them
selves.
Work makes men. Luck usually fails.
Pluck nearly always wins. To succeed in
anything one must overcome obstacles,
Force and fibre are built by hardships.
Grit is necessary in the making of man
as gumption. Hardships are not always
handicaps. Often they are helps. You
will understand this better in twenty
years. Meantime permit one who has
lived that twenty years and more, to ad-
wise you in this. Hang onto your job
until you are sure of better one. Deepen,
dable boys are in demand. And no boy
can be depended upon who does not finish
the task he sets his hand to do. However
disagreeable your work, do it thoroughly.
Do it better than the average boy will da |
it. In that way you will come to e
known as a dependable boy. And mind |
you this Men everywhere are looking for
capable, honest, gritty, dependable boys.
The sooner you let people know that you
are that kind OF a boy, the sooner you will
get better job And don't be in hurry
to give up the work you already have. /
Be sure something better is offered.
Wait awhile. Do your work we'll. Pro-
motion will come. And do not envy the
boy who has an easy time. You would
much better pity him. He has a good /
time now, but some day he must make
good" With his flabby muscles and his
easy habits and his many wants be stands
a far poorer chance than you. Remem-.
Der above all, young fellow, you are MAX
ing man out of yourself,
Middletown transcript., 1905-08-12
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

Don't get excited this month. 1t takes
the lie right out of man to fret and
storm around at nothing. Keep up the
steam. but don't forget to keep the regu-
lator in good working order.
A new method of cutting and curing
timothy hay is to use a self-binding ma.
chine, shock the bundles as you would
grain, and after they are thoroughly
dried put them in a stack or NOW for
future use. Hay thus prepared is easily
handled.
Now, please don't invest any money
far from home, where you can not keep
tag on it. The concern that offers you
more than five per cent. on your invest.
ment, especially if it is in distant CITY,
will bear watching. Four per cent. is
about all that none ywill earn these days.
Why risk the principal for big interest?
If all the IA, ,995, 900 tillable acres of
Japan were merged into one field man
in an automobile, travelling at the rate
of fifty miles an hour, could circle arabic
Japan in eleven hours.
The state of Colorado has an area of
about sixty-six million acres, or 1O3, ,925
square miles. OF this 81, 900 square miles,
or %, 400, 900 acres are capable of produc-
ing crops under irrigation. The area al
ready under cultivation is about 10 per
cent. of what is possible about two and
a half million acres.
Every year scores of men fail in the
poultry business. They start out with
grand flourish and put a lot of money in
to houses and other furnishings; but after
all they do not make go of it. Why?
In many cases the difficulty is that the
most these men think of is the money
they get out OF it. They do not care par
ticularly about the hens, and it is fixed
fact that to win any kind of business, a
man..must love his calling. If he does,
he will put more than money into the
work, he will put himself into it, and
that brings success.
Middletown transcript., 1905-08-12
Reduced Rates to Denver, Colorado Springs,
or Pueblo

On account OF the Grand Aerie, Frater-
nal Order of Eagles, on August IA to "a,
the meeting of the American Osteopathic
Association on August Is to 10, and the
meeting of the National Association of
Local Fire Insurance Agents on August
l6 to Is, at Denver, COL, the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company will sell round
trip tickets from all points on its line to
Denver. Colorado Springs, or Pueblo,
August IL, %, and l3, good returning to
reach original starting point not later than
August 2S, at greatly reduced rates. For
snecific information concerning the ex-
tension OF final limit, routes, rates and
stop-oyer privileges, consult nearest ticket
agent.
Middletown transcript., 1905-08-12
low RATES TO REHoBoTH BEACH

The Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash
ington Railroad Company announces
during the present season-Jnly 27, Aug
ust 10 and "a.
A special train will be lun on the sched-
ule given below, and excursion tickets,
good only on the special train in each di-
rection, will be sold at rates quoted.
Middletown transcript., 1905-08-12
Low RATES TO OCEAN CITY, MD

The Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash.
ington Railroad Company announces
three excursions to Ocean City, Nd, DUR
ing the present season-July Goth, Aug
ust Sd and 18th.
A special train will be run on the sched-
ule given below, and excursion tickets,
good only on the special train in each
direction, will be sold at rates quoted.