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Middletown transcript., 1906-11-17
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Miss a 81 Eaton ii Visiting III Odessa
Miss n q Carpenter seslaAesl 10 lie,
br 5Illsls last Friday
Tile Laftin Club fsis ii ne llalt lasl
week yielded quite ao,,.l ressllis.
Miss Il Carpenter spala lie pasl
week with relatives near Newark
Obie Eaton returned on Wednsaas
from three days visit % Philadelphia.
aIr Francis b Stevens returned 10 lis
homie u Washington, n. J., q. Friday d
last aeek
Il is expected thai Rev. W Il Logan
Will occupy tie pulpit Of the Prtsbs terian
Chnrcli tu morrow
Miss MARY Smith visited relatives llpa,
tow,lsoli Mpnday. Mis- Anna Hpaveloa
returned home With Ler.
Mpssrs. Brown aud Tatnall.af Winning
ton, have completed their contract filling
in At tie Quarantine y itb mud. 4 large
force l.ayr heel, engaged there for eeks.
Because q The rain only email audi
et.ce greeted Presiding Elder NinWlHsy
on Sunday afternoon at the Methodist
Church. but lis Interesting sermon was
mnclt e ia,e,l.
Misses Cora and Allna Yearsley. Mrs.
Charles McaIunl, Mrs. E S Z,cheis and
daughter z.ra, Elmer r. Bender and
two sons and J Melvin Z.eti, all visited
Wilmington on Wednesday.
Tie large handsome lens previously
mentioned in this correspondence has
been placed in the light house opposite
Hickory Grove Cemetery and produces a
splendid effect Because OF the fiew
arrangement the presence Of the keeper
is necessitated all night, aid the latter
has applied for an assistant for the winter.
months Ut least
Middletown transcript., 1906-11-17
DELAWARE COLLEGE
NEWARK, DELAWARE.
Session Of loO6-7 Opens Septem-
Der II, 1906.

Entrance Examinations will be- held
Friday and Saturday, June % aud % 1t
the College and other places throughout
tie Stale at which candidates NAV midi
cate their desire 10 appear Exanias-
ton for admission also on September i l
and u at the college. Gases sstganizvd
September 10. Certificates from arcsesii.,d
schools accepted in lien o. pxasnina,ies :
Instruction III ARTS, Science. ArtiruItn e
and Engineering
TiIitiaIl ffee t.1all students ffnta lleia.
ware.
Fur catalogues aid sslser information
apply i.
GEO. A. HApTER President.
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Saturday, DECEMBER Isl. I0(
BAY HORSE

BAY Cliff, good driver single or
double, will work anywhere. This horse
is IA years old, l6 hands high, and will
suit any young man for driver.
One York Carriage, as good as new; 2
sets of Carriage Harness, 1 Sleigh. new; 2
straps of Bells, new;2 new Hay higgins,
never used; Cyphers Incubator, 1906
model, 240 egg capacity; 5 booders, stands
OF Bees, patent hives; Grindstone,
Blankets, Lap Robes, Whips, etc.
100 bushels Of White Potatoes by the
busliel, | Iron Pnnp, Buckeye, in first
class order; 100 lbs. Honey, in one ID.
boxes.
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M. BANNING
DEALER IN
STAPLE AND FANCY
(iROCER !

\
Now the Holidays are drawing
Inear and they say fruit cake is
going to be on the bill of fare
and some people will want a few
pounds OF their own make of
mince meat. Now we are pre-
pared to fill your order with a
full line of new fruits to make
either, such as figs, dates, seeded
and seedless riLisins, cnrrants,
citren, lemon and orange peel.
Also peaches and pruGes are
now in and almonds, walnuts and
cocoanuts.
Don't forget the next day you
make soup that we have twelve
vegetable in one can. which will
help out in making a variety.
We are now ready to supply
the farmers and butchers with
coarse and fine salt in any size
package. We have Clawson' s
pure peppers ground and whole,
also the cayenne and white pep
per, salt petre, etc.
We are still keeping up our
stock of fresh vegetables, foreign
aud domestic fruits.
We have u few bargains to
offer you ia muslin and outing
flannel 10 cent outings we will
close out at 8 cents a yard
M. BANNING.
Phone 60,
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TERMS OF SALE

All sums of $40 aud under Cash; on
sums over that amount. credit Of (3l
Three Months will be given on bankable
note.
j. WILLIAM JOHNS.
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n EeIsTER,s ORDER.
REGISTER OF Wills OFFICE,

NEW CASTLE COUNTY. DEL, Oct 20, 1906
Upon the application OF Benedict W Hutch
ison Executor of Mary G. Hutchison late Of
Appoquinimink Hundred, in said county.
deceased, it is ordered and directed by the
Register OF Wills that the ExecutoT
Aforesaid give notice of granting of Letters
TestameBtary upon the estate of the
deceased, with the date of granting thereof,
by causing ad yertisements to be posted with
IN forty days from the date of such etters
In six OF the most public places of the
county of New Castle, requiring all per.
sons having demands against the estate to pre-
sent the same or abide 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 MIDDLETowN TRAM
SCRIPT, newspaper published in Middletown.
Del, and to be continued therein two months.
f>l Given under the hand and seal of
SEAL office of the Register of Wills afore-
49, said, at Wilmington, in New Castle
Co lnty aforesaid. the day and year above
written.
FRED e. BACH. Register OF Wills.
NorIcE-Noticei is hereby given that Letters
Testamentary we've in ue form of law
granted unto the undersigned on the Twenty
ninth day of Oct. A. ID, 1905 and that all per.
sons having claims against the estate of the
deceased must present the same, duly attested
to the said Testa mentary on or before the
Twenty-ntnth day Of Oct. 10 u, or abide the Act
Of Assembly in such case made and provided,
BENEDICT w. HU r6HISoN,
address. Martin B. Burris Esq. :
Middletown, Delaware
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THE oPzRETTA "c1HDEREILA

Tie pleasing little operetta will be pre-
serted in the Opera House on Thursday
ete,i 9. November 29th-Thanksgirieg
Ia -bs lie MiddIetown High scIinol--
Teacher a. i pupils, ably assirted by Rev.
and Ms. ! II. C a and promises to b. an
e@teiian'hei.t that every one will enjoy.
The nl;irct i fpt the benefit OF the school
and We predict a crowded house Tie
folloaing i the syhep~if q lie play:
Acr5I
scrLe-6ipdvrelia'r Kitchen
ACT II
Scene IA Corli.hv, or siarineit IN
The Palace. adjacent 70 the Bah roa,I'.
Scene III -iardeI. outside CindeIelia's
la,ise.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-22
HERE AND THERE.

There are in the United States
two hundred kinds of insects that are
called squash, cucumber, watermelon
and canteloupe sucking bugs.
The Colorado beetle is destroying
Irish potatoes. and worms and bugs
have destroyed many gardens in north
ern Texas. Fruit is falling of badly.
Every dairyman should know that
the quicker the milk is cooled after
taken from the cow the better and
more healthful 1t will be and the long
er it will remain sweet.
The young pigs need perfectly dry
quarters, and II is about two to one
that they don't get them the first three
weeks of their existence.
1t is estimated that As, 600, 900 eggs
are consumed every day in the United
States, and yet there are people who
fear the poultry business will be over
done.
Six or eight pigs in a single litter
we'll grown out are worth more than
double the value of the ten or a dozen
brought up in a h~alf-hearted manner.
The man Who owns a good farm
free from mortgage, and who invests
most of his money at home-in better
stock or living better-is the center
of a financial world of his own. He's
the king pin!
Eternal vigilance will be the price
Of young chickens, now that the hot
" heather has set in. Cleanliness must
then be observed or vermin will swarm
and take OF" the chirpers by the
score.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-22
WHEN BATHING THE BABY.
A Flannel Apron Should Be Worn,
Water Tested by a Thermom-
eter-How to Handle.

Who is to give baby his bath should
nc provided with a large flannel apron;
fastened to this from the waist is
pinned a large soft towel. Fill then
bott the tub and the basin with water.
The temperature of the bath should be
SO to 100 degrees, neither under nor
over. Rely upon the thermometer. Do
not test the water with the hand;
what may seem fairly warm to an
adult hand may be hot enough to scald
a baby's tender skin.
1t Is we'll to have a small pitcher of
exceedingly hot water at hand for use
in case the water in the bathtub should
cool before the baby is ready to go into
it II for any reason a bath Their
mometer cannot be had, the elbow
affords a fair test. Do not have the
water hotter than is comfortable to
the elbow.
When everything is in readiness the
baby is taken on the lap, the towel
having been pushed to one side so that
the baby lies in the flannel apron.
Handle him as little as possible, roll
ing him when a change of position is
necessary. But do not lift him, as
pressure on the stomach and abdomen
where delicate organs lie, is uncom-
Portable and often proves injurious to
the child.-Chicago Tribune.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-22
Commencement Pudding.

Soak one-half package. Of gelatine
in a gill Of water for three hours, then
pour over 1t one-half pint of boiling
water. Add one and one-half cupfuls
of sugar and. allow both sugar and
gelatine to become thoroughly dis
solved by placing the bowl in a dish
of boiling water and stirring the mix
ture. Add next one cupful of orange
juice, strain and set away to cool.
When it begins to thicken add the
unbeaten whites of eight eggs, place
the bowl in ice water and beat until
thick. Pour into molds to harden and
serve with a custard made as fol-
lows: Two-thirds of a cupful of
sugar in one-half cupful of milk in the
double boiler, add the grated rind Of
one orange and one-half teaspoonful
of salt. Beat up the yolks of the eggs
used in the pudding, add to them one
third Of a cupful of milk. Pour this
into the hot milk, beat and boil five
minutes in the double boiler.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-22
A Valuable Thought.

1t is a fact that nitrogen fertilizers
are annually becoming scarcer, there
fore the price is higher. Two years
ago nitrogen was selling at $50 per
ton; to-day the price is s"2. The beds
OF nitrate of soda In Chill are pouring
out thousands of tons of this fertilizer
each year, and the price will grow
higher.
Now, what should sensible men do?
They should from this issue of the
Agriculturist determine not to be un-
der the grasp Of the fertilizer dealers
for nitrogen. How can they help them
selves? BY growing this spring, the
coming summer and during next win
ter plants that will gather enough nj
trogen to keep up the fertility of their
lands. Determine to plant several
acres of sofa beans, COW pease, alsike
clover and hairy vetch. Each will
catch $40 worth of heterogeneous bac-
terra, which will be as good as that
much CHILEAN nitrate of soda. This
one paragraph should be worth one
hundred dollars to any thoughtful
reader.-Southern Agricultural.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-22
MAD OPERATOR TIES
UP RAILWAY TRAFFIC

diana section of the line tangled up
so completely that traffic was not
regulated for hours, and the station
agents are still suffering from the
shock.
Kellam's wrist had lost none of its
speed and he sent messages up and
down the line as quickly as they could
be received, ordering trains held or
sent on and to pass at certain sta
tions.
Station agents soon discovered that
orders were conflicting and that Sc
rious accidents would follow If they
were carried out. But the orders con
tinued to come, and once in awhile
the insane man happened on the cor
rect number of a train. This helped
to mystify the agents. They thought
at first that some operator at some
point was drunk, but he vas intent
ON sending and would not be broken
In on to answer questions.
After 30 minutes, in which the
greatest confusion was caused, one
agent threw the key open and then
grounded the wire to the south of
him. Communication was thus opened
with other operators along the line
and a comparison of orders showed
that they were mixed, and it was con-
cluded to hold all trains at stations at
which they should first arrive till the
muddle could be cleared up.
In the meantime Beauchamp had re-
turned to his Office and found Kellam
at his key. The insane man refused
to vacate, and it required the COM
bined force of the operator and two
other men to overpower him. He
fought desperately, but finally was
bound hand and foot, placed upon a
handcar and sent to jail. When
Beauchamp got possession Of his key
and began to talk to the agents he
found hat trains were being held at
several points. Explanations were
sent and the system started to work
again.
But for more than half an hour the
Wabash railroad in Indiana was at a
s%tandstill and the operators at various
stations in a maze.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-22
MONKEY PLANS REVENGE.

paused in front Of the cage and
laughed at Mr.. Drill. The latter held
out his arms for the papers, which
were promptly handed to him. Re-
treating to a perch high up in the
middle Of the outside cage, Mr.. Drill
began slowly tearing the papers into
bits about as large as postage stamps
and scattering them to the wind which
whistled through his cage.
The winds whisked them out of the
cage and along the walks and over the
ground till that part of the park looked
like dump heaps on a breezy day.
There wasn't a square foot anywhere
around that didn't have it's little white
bit of paper.
When the man with the stick saw
the acre Of white paper dotting the
park like daisies in a mellow, he
Strengthened up with an angry flush
on his face
"Ker-rah-rar! HUH" screamed the
monkey, dashing up and down the side
Of his cage and turning handsprings In
hilarious joy.
Then he sat grinning and chatter.
ing while the paper picker toilsd. j
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-22
FROM A oNE-MULE FARM.
An illustration Of What Can Be A.
eomplished by Intelligent
Farming.

The following communication Is sent
us by Mr.. Raymond l.. Grifiss, IS
Wall street, New York, whose ex-
p~erience as pre- sident of the Southern
Immigration society has brought him
into close touch with the agricultural
problems Of the south and with the
possibilities which that section offers
to Immigrants. Mr.. Grifiss adds that
he can prove every word of his story
1--WE do not doubt 1t, for we know
what can be done in the SOUTH and
offers to send the name Of the king"
of the little Kingdom and other in
formation in regard to what has been
done by others to any who will write
him:
AS an illustration of what can be
accomplished on Georgia land by
studying the soil, supplying it with
the necessary plant food, diversifying
crops. using brains as we'll as hands,
and experimenting everything person
ally, a southern farmer has year by
year added to his possession, until his
one-mule farm has become n Of the
largest in the world, covering 80
square miles of land, and giving en-
ployment to 1880 men, women and
children.
His average for years has been rs
bushels of orn per acre and 1000
pounds Of seed cotton. Some acres
yielded IS bushels of corn, IS of wheat
and two bales of cotton. His land at
first was worth $40 per acre., now $50.
His cattle now number 500, besides his
100 thoroughbred Jerseys and Hol-
stems, which have produced each
year 20, 900 pounds Of butter at Is to
Is cents per pound. With agriculture
he has combined manufacturing, and
his raw material has been turned into
valuable manufactured articles by
means of the steam ginnery, oil mills
ployed negro labor only. His saw mill
cuts his lumber for his houses, ETC.;
his brickyard turns out his brick; his
wagons are made in his shop. His
own railroad. II miles long, hauls ma
terials to his factories and his mar.
hOIaOlC PAOodStS ~ LAC OaSoAoS "a
The average production of lint cot.
ton is one bale to two and one-half
acres on good, bad and Indifferent
farms, but it is not at all uncommon
for a good farmer to raise a bale to
the acre by good culture and abun-
dant fertilizer. Intensive farming,
which applies the lessons of science
and experience, has achieved some re-
markable results.
The following is the average an
nual product of this farm: 1900 bales
of cotton, 10000 gallons of cotton
seed Oil, 5000 tons of fertilizer, 20, 900
bushels of corn, 10000 bushels Of
wheat, 1000 bushels of rye, 5000 bush.
els of oats, 5000 of peas, 10000 pounds
of butter, 100000 pounds of fat cattle.
5000 pounds of bacon and hams, be-
sides such crops as sweet and Irish
potatoes, watermelons, ground peas,
sorghum, etc.-Country Gentleman.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-22
No Bees, No Glover Seed.

The Agriculturist again appeals to
its patrons to have bees on the farm.
Darwin, the great naturalist, learned
by experiments that where 100 heads
of crimson clover were protected from
the visits of bees not a single seed
was found in the 100 heads. Bees had
access to another 100 heads of clover,
and those heads produced 5000 clover
seed.
It is little trouble to have one hive
of bees on a farm. Before the season
is over there will be enough bees to
make two more hives. Each hive will
average per year about twenty pounds
of honey, besides fertilizing the pear
and apple trees.
Any industrious woman a begin
with one hive of bees and in three
years have a dozen, and sell $50 worth
of honey per year. Why pine for money
when such reso lrces as this are at
your command. Buy a hive this seq
son.--Southern Agriculturist.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-22
WISCONSIN FARMER DRIVES
OFFSPRINGs TO PLOW.
STORY OF A LIFE TRAGEDY
Accused by Neighbors Of Cruelty, He
Denies Charge-Forced by Ne
cessity and Adversely to Have
Little Ones Work.

Oshkosh, Wis.-Complaint has been
made against August bundle, a farmer
living about five miles southwest OF
Neenah on the line Of the Oshkosh &
Neenah Interurban. that he has been
hitching four Of his seven children to
a corn pillow or cultivator and COM
relling them to drag the implement
through a ten-acre truck garden, while
he guided it and drove a he would
drive horses.
This sensational complaint is found
ed upon facts, as farmers in the vicin-
ity and persons from Oshkosh riding
the highway in carriages and
automobiles have witnessed the prac-
tice.
The attention of the authorities has
been called to the matter and after
securing substantiation of the facts Of
the case DR.. Wilkie, of this city, agent
of the Fox River Valley Humane go
ciety. went to the farmer and COM
PEELED him to send I'VE of the children
t.. school. or the seven children five
are OF school age, whom the farmer,
1t is alleged, was rearing in ignorance.
None of them Is able to read or write.
The majority are girls. The Oldest
one who was hitched to the pillow Is
rot over IA years of age.
DR.. Wilkie stated that the pillow has
harnesses attached to it which were
put about the shoulders of the children.
The farmer says the corn pillow or cul-
tivator Is very light, and was used
merely to stir up the top soil.
When a newspaper correspondent
visited the farm, four children, n OF
them a girl, stood around August Dunn
die, their father, Offering a bulwark
of loyal flesh and blood to the wrath
Of neighbors who branded the man
cruel. inhuman and a brute.
bundle was seen, first by neigh
bors, then by an oflcer of the HUI
name society. driving a pillow to which
four OF his children were hitched. The
and they dragged 1t like horses. At
first sight it seemed monstrous, and
the neighbors arose in outcry against
the farmers inhumanity.
But they did not know Farmer Dunn
dies story, and, not caring, did not
ask 1t. His story does not reveal
cruelty. 1t is the story of a life trag-
edy or which even President Roosevelt
and all champions of race increase
might ponder.
Reduced to its lowest terms, this is
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-22
Trick Played by Bronx Zoo ON Attache
Of Park Makes Fun for
Visitors.

New York.-The maddest man at
the Bronx geological park a day or
two ago was the official paper picker.
the man who goes around picking up
the lunch baskets and waste left by
the visitors.
There has been q long standing
grudge between him and the man-faced
drill monkey from West Africa, the
creature which is probably called man
faced because his countenance looks
like a burned fritter and has the map
of the great West Africa jungle clear
ly marked all over his phiz. Mr.. Drill
began the quarrel by reaching through
the bars of his cage and emptying the
paper picker's bag all over the ground
one day when 1t was left too zeal the
cage. Since then the paper picker has
cast surly glances at Mr.. Rrill and
scolded him occasionally.
The other morning q visitor with
three big papers under his arm
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-22
Must the Smoke-House Go?

And now there's something else new.
They are trying to abolish the old
s~mokehouse, where we used to hang
up the meat, start a fire smothered
with corncobs and hickory chips, close
the door, and leave the good sweet
country hams to cure in wholesome
smoke. A correspondent of a contem-
porary wrote inquiring where he could
get essence of smoke for meat so
that it will not have to be hung up
in the old way" And our contemporary
was progressive enough to tell the cor
respondent where he could get the lex
tract of smoke" What in the world is
the extract Of smoke, how is it used,
and what are we coming to anyway
Gastonia Gazette.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-22
Paste This In Your Hat.

Buy a farm. young man. No matter
how SMALL it may be, buy a farm and
prepare it 80 that your land will pro-
vide you a living. Twenty years from
now the man that owns his farm will
be independent and will have at his
command the can of a livelihood.
The expansion of manufacturing can
not go on forever, and there will come
a day in this country, as there has in
others, when the supply will exceed
the demand, and the only absolutely
sure occupation will be farming. Buy
a farm while one may be had.-Char-
lotte Peoples Paper.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-22
o H~oLLYHocKs.
How to Grow Them from Seed In
stead of the Old-Fashioned Way
from Cuttings.

The old-fashioned way of increasing
a stock of hollyhocks was by cuttings.
that Is, taking pieces of young shoots,
consisting of two joints with lower
leaves removed, and roofing them In
fine soil in August: That is the only
way Of increasing a stock Of any given
variety, as the hollyhock does not
come true from seed.
The July number of the Garden
Magazine, however, advises growing
from seed, as less troublesome than
the tedious cutting method, and as Sc
curing very satisfactory results from
the new and better varieties Of to-day.
Directions for this mode of propaga-
ton are given, and should be put In
practice this month.
Sow seeds in July in a drill one
inch deep in a sunny, rich soil, leav-
ing plenty of space between the seeds
to allow the young plants to grow
without crowding until the next
spring-not less thar four inches.
Inc drills should be Is inches apart.
to permit cultivation either with the
wheel c%ultivator OF hand hoe. At the
approach of winter protect the plants
by a light covering of straw and
leaves with the boards placed over all,
both to hold the covering and to shed
water. This Is OF course best done
by having two boards joined together
to form an inverted v. II it is de-
sired to keep the colors separate, of
course they must be labeled in the
rows where sown; but If a mixed bed
Of %hollyhocks is wanted it Is far bet
ter to mix the seeds before sowing,
for somehow or other it Is hard to
plant a mixed bed from separate col
ors-at least It is hard. to get it done
satisfactorily.
When the covering is removed the
following spring the plants will be in
perfect condition to transplant to the
positions they are to fill in the gar
den. When lifting them take great
care to dig deep and secure intact the
long, fleshy roots, as they are the
standby of the plants during the stress
IA NV WCothCA ohu uAOu6AC. 4Ac lCd-
son why there are SO many hollyhocks
of only average quality seen, and so
few really good ones, is that insufi-
cient care is given to preparing the
soil. The h%ollyhock is a plant that
can hardly be overfed, and revels in a
deep, rich soil. Double dig the place
where they are to be planted and put
a generous quantity Of rich manure
in the trench when refilling it; or
feed freely all through the growing
season with nitrate of soda, one-half
ounce, and superphosphate and kainit.
one-fourth ounce each, to two gallons
OF water. Give this once in three
THE al%l-outdoor cultivation of hol-
iyhocks is far more simple than the
old way of starting them under glass
and, moreover, gives us plants with
stronger constitution. Treated in this
way as a biennial, it will give better
results than when grown as a peren-