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The Penn's Grove record., 1906-12-14
W. n. SMITH & CO.,
Successor to
". B. Sharp & Co.,
Fourth and Market Streets,
WILMINGTON, DEL.

A Better Display
we've never shown. Hand
kerchiefs of every kind
and style: handkerchief for
the children, for the men,
for the ladies, and good
handkerchiefs, too, at fair
prices. Initial ladies' all
linen handkerchief, hem
stitched narrow borders,
12!c. OF swiss, very fine
and pretty; more elaborate
embroidery, 10 C.
Ladies' handkerchief from
SC to 500. Mems hand
kerchiefs from SC to Child
ren's handkerchiefs, 3 in a
box, lOc up.
Be Comfortable
while you're doing your
Christmas shopping. Warm
golf Gloves. Csc and SOC
a pair. Women's CASH
merette gloves. long and
warm soc
Long Kid Gloves of the
best quality from l SO to
800 a pair; white, black
or tan. Gauntlet Gloves
for boys and girls and lad
les, too $1.00 and 1.25
First floor.
Christmas Belts
The newest belts are here,
all kinds, all prices, from
the good serviceable every
day black silk or leather
belt, at Csc, to the beau
ties in gold cloth, elastic.
studded and jet belts.
Dainty white, blue and
pink silk belts are in a box
for Christmas gifts.
Rich plaid belts, too.
A very handsome lot of
heavy brass buckles, gilt
finish, in new and pretty
patterns, are hear at SOC a
apiece, put up in velvet
boxes. These buckles are
fully worth 75c each.
Belts, first floor.
Stockings for Good
boys and girls are easily
filled from our great line of
toys. It's a clear case of
Santa Causing made easy
-
if you come to our toy de-
partment now before the
last-minute folks are crowd
ingit up. Come now,
while there's plenty of. the
wanted toys. Dolls, trains,
bears, beds, boats, wash
tubs, dolls dishes, Roly
Poyls, mechanical toys,
pianos, magic lanterns,
stoves, trumpets, drums,
crokinole boards, funny
mechanical clowns and
horses. The best express
wagons made, and Christ
mas tree ornaments in in
finite variety.
Toys at all prices.
BloWy Weather
has no terror for the girl
with a set of our fashion,
furs. Furs make
ptable Christmas
You can depend CD
they're made right
I'M start to finish. Come
see our splendid line.
Neck pieces from $500 to
1000. Muffs from 500 to
$500.
Second floor, take elevator
Comb and Brush Sets,
Puff jars, hat pin holders,
silver pencils, blotters, all
the little things that don't
cost a great deal; but that
do show your friends that
you remember them and
are giving some of the
Christmas spirit.
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WATCHES GIVEN AWAY

I'LL UllLU ulILU HILL
With Little Boys Cloth
ing, until Christmas. This is
our Holiday way Of having
the Boys get acquainted
with us. The genuine n
gersoll Nickel Watch with
Chain given with IS sales,
and the Triumph Silver
Watch given with $40
worth. Given with Boys's
Suits and Overcoats in all
Knee Trousers, sizes 3 to
16 wears. Everything in
Clothing for Men and
Boys, suitable tor Holiday
Gifts. House Goats, Bath
Robes, Umbrellas, Neck
Handerchiets, Gloves, Sus-
penders and all Furnish
ings, Hats, Caps, Grips,
Suit Cases and Trunks in
our Hat Department.
Shoes, Slippers and Gum
Boots in our Shoe Depart
ment.
s sss.".s MULLINS f H.'.
uI
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Stockings for Good

boys and girls are easily
filled from our great line of
toys. It's a clear case of
Santa Causing made easy
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

speech, so that when he became excited
ne stammered rather slightly, though un-
fortunately. One day he was giving an
order to an under officer with the ma
rines drawn up on deck at attention, -
and his stammering caused snicker in
the ranks. The officer did not hear it,
but the subordinate did, and being a roll
licking, good-natured son of Cork, the
humor of the situation appealed to him
so strongly that he laughed outright
The officer became red in the face
ehoked up with righteous Indignation,
and finally ordered the offender to stand
on cask in full view of all his comrades
and he was then ordered to laugh until
he was relieved" For an hour and a half
the poor jackie was prodded on to keep
up a hearty laugh, and during the last
half hour he presented most pitiable
spectacle Finally, when ordered relieved,
and it was SO long before he laughed
again that his comrades dubbed him
the man who never smiled again"
Whistling is forbidden on certain oc-
casions, and woe betide the offender who
is caught saving off a chord of the
latest ragtime or grand opera. He is
stood up on deck and made to whistle
with all his power until his tired and
parched lips absolutely refuse to make a
sound prominent officer now doing
duty in the Navy Department declares
that he whistled once in this way for
such period of time that if a single
pucker would have given him the grade
of retired admiral he would have failed
to qualify.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

Nature study is supposed to be,
quite different thing from the study of
books. In a way it may be true that
the two kinds of study are not very
much alike, but in another way they
cannot be separated. Nature is around
US wherever we turn; above us
stretches the sky; we breathe the air;
we have, whether we live in town or in
the country, the sights and sounds OF
nature near us all the time. If we have
only a little backyard with small
plot of grass and a pot or two of f1ow>
ers. if our only acquaintance with birds
a cage, we still may study nature, al
though not with the same degree of
interest that will be ours when we
make excursions to green fields.
l take it for granted that the girls
who are studying nature are doing so
to some purpose. Every one of us
ought to know by sight and touch the
trees in the locality nearest our homes
We should know them by their pecu-
liarities of bark and branch and buo
and leaf. We should know the flowers
that grow in our countryside. recog-
nizing them by their peculiarities Of
root. stem and flower, of color and per-
fume
We should likewAe know the birds.
Nothing is more absorbing than the
study of birds. They are fascinating z
little creatures. Their habits, manners
and customs are not so very opposite
to our own VIXEN we really penetrate
their secrets. In single rather small
neighborhood in New Jersey a bird
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24
COURTSE1IP CURES MENTAL, AL ,MENTS

Ailing persons in search of health
who have not tried the courtship cure
should lose no time in taking a COM
plete course of this simple but effective
tonic. 1t matters not whether the pa
tient is married or single
Many married persons whose health
has deteriorated look back with long
ing TO the sound activity of body and
the brightness Of spirits of their court
ing days But they do not see the
real reason of their deterioration in
health. They attribute it, perhaps. to
business cares or domestic worries
frequently pay unnecessary visits to
the doctor, or acquire the drug habit
by sampling nearly every patent med
icine upon the market.
much more satisfactory and Tnex-
pensive remedy would be daily dose
of courtship carried on under strictly
hygienic conditions, but without the
supervision of a meuical man. ~,
Married persons who take up the
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

And so we makes the Mayor captain
of the team and gets to practicing. We
come near giving it up after the first
day. We was mighty near letting it
slide. It sure was a plumb undignihed
exhibition 1t wore us out fearful. 1t
busted our hands up some.
But Norton he told us how to do it,
and we kept at it. The Mayor got so
he could stop ball which was rolling
along the ground some swift. and the
rest of the nine wasn't much behind
him. A couple of times the boys stopped
balls before they hit the ground. We
was plumb expert
Then this here team come, and when
we seen 'em play we was plumb dis
couraged. 1t didn't look like hard
work. They loped around loose and
general and they caught balls casual
and regular They knew how
And just as we was getting plumb
discouraged the Mayor he calls meet
ing of the team.
persuasive, these Shorthorns look
good, don't they? It seems as if they
was about to rub it in We amt in it,
are we? Shucksr
" Meaning what?' asks one of the
boys.
Meaning, says the Mayor, closing
his left eye swift and indicating, that
we just got to prance. We got to skin
'em alive. We got to fan the ambient
and we got to die the plate The mean
ing of all which 1 don't know, but it
sounds good. 1t sounds like action.
And that's what there's geing to be-
Gentlemen, snort Gentlemen. ravei
It come the day of the game. IL come
to the game itself. And things looked
good. Because there wasn't no umpire.
and old man Sanderson he volunteered.
He didn't know the game but he was
willing. He didn't know base on balls
from fly, but he was plumb willing to
learn. And. when these here visitors
they kicked we just oyeruled 'em. 1t
was done calm and judicious. There
wasn't no hardware used.
Gentlemen, hush, Gentlemen, weep
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

iron at 90A. 1t rose to 95, but he
refused to take profits Then 1t began
70 sag. He put in a ''stop-loss" order,
and sold out his stock just where he
mad bought, but at the loss only of
ms commissions. 1t was the nearest
ne ever came to making a profit Later
the stock rose rapidly. to $50. and it
is now selling around las. He butted
into cotton, but Theodore Price was
Just starting bear campaign and
caught Mr.. Hoodoo Lamb for a loss
or 90 points. He was no more fortunate
In wheat, and when Mr.. Armour took
about s2,00o,000 away from John w.
Gates and his clique he took away $125
that Mr.. Hoodoo Lamb had invested for
rise in the golden grain.
His initial capital was not long in
going, and he replenished it by plac-
Ing a mortgage for $4,000 on his home.
Ihen he became extremely cautious. He
learned to play "straddles," as he called
tnem-going short" of one stock and
long or another. He bought Frisco
second at 81 for rise to 70 and went
snort" of American Smelling and Re-
ming at par. The dividend was passed
on Frisco Second and the stock broke
below 80. The Guggenheim clique got
under Smelters' and boosted 1t finally
to 100 Mr.. Hoodoo Lamb did not stay
until the end. He took another loss,
and with his remaining capital bought
nIty shares of Chicago and Alton at
IN and fifty shares of Sugar at 156.
Then came the Easter slump" last
year. He sold out his Sugar" at 13S,
but there was no market for Alton and
he clung to 1t, with just enough margin
TO see 1t down to 81 71-2. The margin
on the Alton stock represented all that
was left of the $4,000 original capital.
ana the $4,000 mortgage. This was
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

courtship cure must not be content to
make shift with a spurious imitation.
The counting must be done in the open
air. Long walks must be taken to-
gether, daily or nightly, whichever is
the most convenient
The courtship of the average unmar-
ried couple offers, of course, large
variety of diversion. In addition to
daily walks or moonlit strolls they
have, as rule, more time and oppor-
tunity for tennis, cyci4ng, boating and
other outdoor amusements than mar
ried folk.
1t is to be feared, however, that
thousands of young couples who derive
enormously heallnIul advantages from
their courtship do not realize to what
an extent their physical well-being is
dependent upon their lovemaking.
An instance of this occurred about
a year ago in a certain village, A cer-
tain young couple were separated by
the girls departure for the town. She
stayed in a situation there for. a few
months, but was i'll the whole time.
Her sweetheart left behinS in his
native place. also suffered in hcSlth.
1t transpired that both had kept them
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24
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more than year ago. Since then there
have been possibly dozen sales of
Alton. A rise in Alton was the only
hope of Mr.. Hoodoo Lamb. Every
morning he was at his brokers' once
before the market opened, and he re-
NAMED until business closed for the
day. He studied financial reports of all
the railroads and he watched the tick
er" and the blackboard. but weeks
passed without a transaction being re-
corded in Alton.
His monthly communication was $500,
but he paid 1t cheerfully in the hope
that some day he might see Alton
boom and bring him back the money
he had lost and build that room and
install modern plumbing in his home.
With the optimism that obsesses the
possibility Of some financial giant try
ing to wrest from hartman the con-
troll of the little road and put it's stock
above par.
1t was an awful disappointment, to
him when Alton siumped to "a IA. That
quotation remained on the board for
nearly month Then one day it be-
came the long interim of silence and
dullness. Then one sluggish Saturday
the board boy posted a sale at 35. For
six weeks more the stock failed to
show on thetape, but Mr. -Hoodoo Lamb
came in each day in the vain hope that
the Harriman-Somebody Else fight
might develop and lift the price. An
other quotation-this time 80. He grew
discouraged. His wife was tired of
waiting for that extra room and the
modern plumbing.
In April came the San Francisco.
earthquake. The market at first i'm.
pudently resisted pressure. But one
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

here is the financial biography of
the most unlucky man that ever fol-
lowed the ticker in Wall street Even
today, after his speculative obituary
has been written by the final. margin
CALL he is spoken of as Mr.. Hoodoo
Lamb, and that name should serve here
in this narrowing recital.
Mr.. Lamb never plunged. He was a
piker"; but even as piker he was a
wonder He struck Wall street just
two years ago. He was a mild, modest
man. He did not expect to reap a
fortune. He simply wanted to win
enough to pay for the building of an
other room to his house out in a dis
tant Jersey suburb and Install modern
plumbing throughout his little DWELL
ing.
Il have a few thousand dollars" he
announced to the head of the brokerage
firm to which he came. II may not
do anything for weeks. In other words,
1 may prove to be chair warmer, but
am willing to pay for my own chair,
so 1t won't cost the house anything"
AS matter of fact he had $4,000.
he was assured he would not tbe in
the way and need give himself no un-
easiness about the chair So he stayed
The bull market was just starting
two years ago, but Mr.. Hoodoo Lamb
had some special information that
Pennsylvania was q sale When that
stock recovered from about 1I2 to lIS
he sold IL short" and waited for 1T
to decline. In two weeks he bought
1t back at loss of 500.
No one was quite as yoluble as he
after he had been in the street a few
months. He knew when Sugar" was
going TO move" and invariably bought
it just before break. He could tell
just what the dividend on Copper"
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

selves indoors great deal during the
period of separation.
When the young woman returned
and the eourtship was resumed both
quickly recovered their usual health.
A provincial man recently made the
strange avowal that though too poor
to marry, he had indulged in no fewer
than seven courtships, all of which
were undertaken for the sake of his
health.
He found that solitary walks were
not so beneficial as walks taken in
feminine society, and he did not care
for tramping with male friends, as he
was troubled with shortness of breath
and could not comfortably keep up
the usual masculine pace.
There is no doubt whatever that, in
countless instances, courtsnip has
most salutary effect upon the mental
and physical health of young men who
adopt the role of lover.
After marriage many couples neglect
to entertain and cheer each other UP
as in days of yore. This omission, to-
gether with the giving up of regular.
walks or other recreation in each
others company, has an injurious ef-
feet upon their health.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

day Great Northern broke 26 points and
violent slumps occurred in Copper" !"
Northern Pacific and other high-priced
issues. Stanch old st. Paul dropped
from IT'S to 155 1-2, and no man knew
where the bottom would be.
But Alton was mute. absolutely dead.
No one could tell at what figure it
might sell. and Mr.. Hoodoo Lamb sat
in the chair he had offered to buy. hop
ing and praying with clinched hands
and haggard eye that its price might
not be posted on the board until the
panic had passed
The market rallied Great Northern
again crossed 800, and other stocks
made gains of to is points. Mr. Hoo
doc Lamb breathed more easily. his
hands lost their tension and his eve
grew brighter The storm had passed
without striking Alton, and Mr.. Lamb
thought he could see a ray of sun
shine.
long, low whistle of astonishment
from the blackboard boy as he posted
quotation aroused Mr.. Lamb from a
reverie He glanced at the board and
saw Alton quoted at 20.
Mr.. Hoodoo Lamb slipped out of his
chair and dropped to the floor. Alton
25-two points and half below the ex-
haustion Of his marginl The $4,000
original capital. the extra room and the
modern plumbing had gone elimmer-
ing, and a $4,000 mortgage rested on
his home.
What difference does it make that
Alton promptly rallied to 80? He was
down and out, ruined, wrecked and
hopeless. 1t would surprise no one now
IL the Hartman Somebody Else fight
should take place and put the stock to
par. just to show how unlucky was Mr..
Heodoo Lamb.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

Gentlemen-but ft was exciting. The
Mayor which was pitching. he never
let 'em hit it He never threw the ball
near enough He kept it away from
em a-purpose. And when the VISITORS
got mad old man Sanderson, the same
that was umpire. he quieted them down
I've been reading the rules, he
says, calm and persuasive, displaying
his armament prominent and ready,
and 1 observe that the umpire runs
things. What he says goes. I'm the
umpire, and if I'm inclined TO mention
that most of these efforts which the
Mayor is making is strikes, why, amt
intending to be contradicted- Besides,
he amt never done it before. and we
got to make allowances, which we did
Well sir, the game loped along brisk
and enjoying until it come to the ninth
inning and the score was tie. There
wasn't anybody had made anything.
The Mayor he never threw no balls that
the other fellows could reach, and She
pitcher for the Shorthorns he threw
them corkscrews which was mentioned
in the article about baseball. But then
there comes a time when the Mayor was
careless, and he threw the ball near the
man which had the stick. And he hit
it. He soaked it fearful. 1t went about
a mile. And Frisky Wilson, which was
out in right field, he chases it. But his
cayuse amt handy, and we was all de-
spairing and frantic when old man San
derson, which was umpiring, he yells
out:
-.only two bases on that HIT he
says. loud and raueous.
Whats that for? asks one of the
Shorthorns.
1--we. been reading the regulations,
says old man Sanderson, and l observe
that hit into the crowd only counts
two bases. Them is known as the
ground rules. and they goes
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

would be, but the increase evidently
had been discounted" for the stock
sold off as soon as the new rate had
been announced. He lost so persist
emily that soon ne became a marked
man.
He sold Brooklyn Rapid Transit
short" at TN. only to see 1t rally
to SC. He bought Tennessee. Coal and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-10-06

H- That during his absence his wife,
supposing him dead, had married Ben
ton Whitecotton, who had been killed
in fight with revenue officers in the
mountains of northeast Georgia They
had reared a considerable family of
children
AS above stated, the wife was found
in her widowhood at the home of her
daughter, who was daughter of
Whitecotton- Old man Pittman is So
years old; his wife is probably ten
years younger. They both look spry
for their age.
The old man said:
''Why, they seem to be making as
much over me as they would old Gen.
Grant Well, they thought they would
wear my poor life out in the prison,
but I thank God there is little of it
left for me to enjoy with my family.
I've got 120 acres of land that they
got of mine because they supposed
was dead, which 1 am going to recover
through the law, and / hope to settle
down on it and be happy, and I must
have that daughter in Alabama with
me that 1 gave the name of 'Adeline'
before the war got me-"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-10-06

A good deal of nonsense is being
talked and written by opponents of
spelling reform about the danger that
words will lose their chronological
identity; that their derivation will be
lost or obscured. and all that. But as
= matter of fact, says the Indianapo-
lis News, only the scholars are con-
scious of the derivation of words in
any large degree, and no matter how
you change the spelling they will re-
main just as conscious of the source
and origin of words as they are now
Indeed, some philologists assure us
that derivation would more easily be
traced and followed in the simpHfied
or phonetic spelling than in the pres
emit illogical and wildly varying forms
and symbols. There is no more
doubt, to take a single example, of the
derivation of filosofy than of philos-
ophy-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-10-06

The National Druggist says that not
q few of the coffee substitutes which
are advertised as preferable to coffee
contain more or less coffee. This may
he tested by shaking a teaspoonful in
n bottle half full of water. The bot
tie must be thoroughly shaken, so as
10 wet every particle of the sample,
when nearly all of the non-coffee in.
gradients will sink to the bottom
and the coffee float on the top. The
reason for this is that coffee contains
y large amount of oil which buoys up
the particles Peas, beans. wheat,
corn, chicory, ETC., are heavier than
water and. having no oil, sink to the
8Cttom-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-10-06
Cleanliness at Home and Abroad.

Cleanliness at Home and Abroad.
England, which has been properly
and justif1ably Mortified at the reve-
packing houses, will be yet more ap-
palled at learning that the food prod
ucts of her own country show, in
many cases, an equally disgusting dis
regard for cleanliness and asepic
conditions. Two government inspect
Ors, Miss Deane and Miss Suieres,
have found conditions in the sausage,
Jam and chocolate factories of the
most repulsive character, says The
Reader. Apropos of all this, an in
feresting traveller, the count of Turin,
cousin of the king of Italy, who has
been making a tour of America and
Europe, says that after visiting sew
eral of the local London packing
houses, he has come to the conclu-
sion that the Chicago establishments
were the cleaner. The truth is, we
require of wholesale purveyors a
stands ard of cleanliness which we too
frequently fail to enforce on our
farms and in our bakeries. The Amer
lean traveller who goes no further than
the local boarding house, the country
Inn. the urban hostelry or the railway
eating station, has data enough for a
startling culinary essay, were he
minded to write it; and what goes
On in our kitchens is something of
which most of us were happier to re-
main in ignorance.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-10-06

statue represents three figures, in the
costumes of college boys of colonial
times, operating piece of field artil-
lery. The stirring affair that the
statue will commemorate occurred on
July 5, 1879. The British planned to
force Washington to weaken his
forces at West Point in order to de-
fend the Connecticut coast New
Haven, then a town of 1SS inhabit-
ants, was to be the object of the
British attack. President Stiles,
from the steeple of Yale college, saw