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;/. y mm w* ■ : '■* -.Æ/i* mgv ——*, ip t. 4 It e PRICE, 3 CENTS. MIDDLETOWN, DELAW ARE, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 3,1891. VOL. XXni.-NO. 35. W. H. MOORE # GO. SUMMER DRESS FABRICS. We have in stock a beautiful selection of Summer Dress Stuft™ also Spring Woolens, which we are oftenng at low prices.' Chains, zfphyr Cloth, Ginghams, Nuns Veiling, Cash meres, Henriettas, Mohairs, Silks, &c. CLOTHING. We would especially call your attention to our large stock of Men's, Boys' and Children's Clothing. We have the stock, the styles and the prices. CARPETS AND MATTINGS. LADIES' COATS. est U. assortment of Ladies' Coats, in We have a veiy pretty plain and fancy stripes from £1.25 and upwards. I ing HATS 'AND CAPS. Our shoe department is full of all the seasonable goods such as slipper^ ties, turns, etc., for ladies and children, and heavy and fine shoes for men and boys. _ | 3 T Full line of Groceries. in 9 MIDDLETOWN DEL. 1 Farmers, Look to Your Interest. in s' I r, PARVIS & WILLIAMS Co i MARK rmA-XDiB 1 -MANUFACTURERS OF Delaware Wheat Grower, Soluble Bone and Potash, Delaware Soluble Bone. THE CHEAPEST AND BEST FERTILIZER IM THE MARKET. These goods guaranteed to be in good drilling condition. ALSO, DEALERS IN FERTILIZER MATERIALS OF ALL KINDS. * Parvis & Williams Company, Middletown, Delaware. can ted 30 to the H. juiyis-tr Steam Ice Cream Manufactory. ICE CREAM AT WHOLESALE. -MANUFACTURED BT THE RICE STEAM ICE CREAM MFG. Co. NO ADULTERATIONS OF ANY KIND USED! 49 - Cream shipped to all parts ot the Peninsula on short notice. Orders by telegraph will be promptly attended to and ersam shipped by next train. FOREIGN CHILDRENS mug and »TCP TOYS OF EVERY variety' ALWAYS ON HAND. m DOMESTIC FRUITS NUTS &c. &c. &c. We are now prepared to furnish oysters in any quantity desired Xor family use, also for parties, church suppers, etc, SPECIAL PRICES FOR LARGE QUANTITIES. TT! b. EjXOIEj, Middletown, Del ONE DOLLAR I a year is onl> a trifle, but if you know how to invest that Dollar it will pay for itself many times over. For that small • . sum you can secure [ TRANSCRIPT fl FOR ONE YEAR. If you are not a subscriber you should be and if you read it a few times you would be. We are striving to make the paper as interesting as possible and think our efforts are being appre ciated. There is no use in claiming a circulation that we can aot prove but we will say that during the past year we have added many new names to our list, and still they come. This is a point for advertisers. SUBSCRIBE AT ONCE ! JRistfHaittotis $du's. POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream ol tartar baklng|powder. High Late« est of all In leavening strength. U. 8. (Jovernment Food Report. Hardware, Cutlery, &c. I HAVE a lull and complete line ot Hard ware and Cutlery, and shall at all tiroes aim to keep my stock complete. Ranges, Stoves, &c. Sa- The Gauze Door Range in which lam making a drive Is a complete stove. Bak ing bread In It will not mold and neats cooked are rich and juicy. Call and seethe above named stove. Coal Hods, Shovels, &c. SO- Coal Hods, s hovels. Pokers, Zinc, Store Beards, Pipe Elbows, Dsmpers, Collars, and a large stock ot all kinds kept in a flrst-class hardware, stove and tin store. Roofing, Spouting, &c. Mdf - Roofing, spontinu and all kinds of tin and iron work, and repairing ot heaters, cook and coal stoves at short notice. Re pairs furnished lor any stove made, of which 1 give special and prompt attention. Paints, Varnishes, &c. Ready-mixed Paints in any quantity. Walnut, Cherry, Mahogany and Maple oil stain, Varnishes—Coach, Furniture and Fin ishing in any quantity. Lamps, Agate-ware, &c. SOT I make a specially in lamps, lamp goods, « gate-ware.t Japanned tinware and pressed ware, Ba W Any article in tinware that I have not in stock I tun always prepared to make at s' ori notion: i nlso give prompt attention I repairing In Tinware. I • tend an Invitation to the public, my r, i. ads and patrons to call and examine my slock and prices. * No Trouble to Show Goods. Hoping for a liberal share of yonr patron age. 1 am most respectfully. W. S. LETHERBORY, MIDDLETOWN, DEL. CAPITAL.. - - 1500.000.00. SURPLUS. - - >60,000.00. Security Trust and Safe Depit Company, 519 MARKET ST., WILMINGTON, DEL. Mossy Uhbmploybd or waiting Investment can be made to earn you Interest If deposi ted with this company. Ixtzrbst Paid on deposits ot money as fol lows : 2 per cent on deposits payable on de mand, by obeck, same as banks ; Sjg per cent on deposits payable alter 10 days notice ; 3 per cent on deposits payable after 30 days' notice. Special rates for large sums to remain lor a year or longer. Special Attbstiox given to the accounts ot Ladles, also to those of Executors, Adminis trators, Trustees, Guardians and Receivers The Company acts by authority ot law as Executor. Administrator, Guardian, Re ceiver and Agent, and executes trusts ot every description. Correspondence solicited and lull informa tion furnished concerning any branch ol the Company's business, Satisfaction guar anteed. Send tor pamphlet. BENJ. NIELDS, President. H. C. ROBINSON, Vice President. JAS. B. CLARKSON, Treas. & 8ee. JNO. S. ROSSELL, Trust Officer. Directors : Benjamin Nlelds, Jos. H. Chandler, M D Henry C. Robinson, J. Davis Staler, Phillip Pinnkett, William M. Field, James A. Hart, Charles E. Fritz, Henry F. Dare, Archibald A, Capelle, Wm. P. Bancroft. Wm. R. Brlnckle Wm. J. McClary, SamuelG. Simmons, mayl-ly Farmers Look to Yonr Interests Middletown Nursery . AND FRUIT FARM. ESTABLISHED 186 S. Peach trees ot all the best varie ties a Specialty, being grown lrom Strictly Pure Natural Seed and budded trees. lrom healthy bearing A fall line ot Trait, shade and ornamental trees, also Small Fruits, Osage Orange, Roses Verbenas, Geraniums, Ac., Ac. All kinds Early and Late Vegetable plants In season. All orders by mail will receive prompt and carelnl attention. Catalogue mailed tree on application. Address ot E. R. COCHRAN & CO., MIDDLETOWN, DEL. HUTCHISON 4 SURER, -WHOLESALE FRUIT AND PRODUCE Commission Merchants, EGGS, BUTTER. POULTRY. LIVE STOCK, Ac. 409 New Market Street, Phllada. W Any information in regard to ship ping un g It {Lilly given. aptT9-Sm For Sale. BRICK DWELLING AND STORE at tached, situated on the corner ot Mail and Scott streets. Location most desirable. The property is In first-class order and will lie sol&on reasonable terms, as the under signed expects to leave the state. mlîtl Apply to D. L. DUNNING. A it House for Sale. T HE STORE AND DWELLING combined on Main Street, near the depot, now occu pied by the undersigned. Excellent site foi good business location. MBS. THOMAS MASSET. janfiMro SHE SIMPIiY COULDN'T. She could sing and she could play. She could dance from night till day, She could while the hours away. So 'tie said : She couldn't skate and she could paint, She coaid play the patron saint. But she couldn't and she woaldn't Hake a bed. She coaid walk eight miles a day. And play tennis charmingly, Flirting In a saucy way. Little scamp ! drive and play baseball, She could make a stylish call. But she couldn't and she woaldn't Clean a lamp. Sho con Id She could swim and she could row, Shi; could always have a beau. And I'm sure that we all know That she was shy ; She could laugh and she could prance. She could play a game ot chance, Bui she couldn't and she wouldn't Make a pie. She could etch and write a book. She could vanquish with a look ; She conld win by hook or crook, I con less ; She cou Id scold and she conld flout, She could cry and she conld pout. But she couldn't and she wouldn't Make a dress. She could talk of chnroh affairs. But new naught ot household cares ; Still I'm sure that none compares With sweet Naa: Even If she couldn't bake Bread and pies and angel cake. - She en raptured and she captured A rich mon t AN ACT To Provide Free Text Books tor the Free Schools of the State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Del aware in General Assembly met : Sec. 1. That on and after the first Saturday in April, A. D. 1891, the school commissioners or trustees of each school district or districts in the State shall furnish the necessary text books free to all the pupiU enrolled in the free schools of the State in the manner hereinafter provided. Sec. 2. The school commissioners or trustees shall order from the pub lisher or publishers the books which have been adopted by the State Board of Education for use in the Free Schools of the State, at the net contract prices at which the publish ers have agreed to supply the same, as follows : There shall be a blank order book prepared by the Treasur er for the usé of the school commis sioners, which shall contain duplicate order blanks, with a printed list of the books which have been adopted by the State Board of Education, and the net contract prices at which the publishers agree to furnish the same. Duplicate ordert shall be filled out and signed by at least two of the school commissioners, or in case of united or incorporated districts by the president and secretary of the school board ; one of these orders shall be forwarded to the State Treasurer to be forwarded to the publisher or pub lishers and the other shall be kept'as a stub in the order book as a voucher. The State Treasurer, on receipt of an order or orders from Bchool com missioners, shall make an entry of the amount of the order or orders against the district or districts in a kook kept for that purpose, and shall forward the order or orders at once to . the publisher or publishers, requesting them on receipt of the order or orders to ship the books as directed, at the contract prices named, and send dup licate invoices or bills for the same, one to the State Treasurer and the other to the district clerk of the school district to which the books are con signed. The State Treasurer shall pay the publisher or publishers out of the school fund of the State for books thus supplied and charge the amounts paid to the respective districts ordering said books, and deduct the same from the amount to which such district or districts may be entitled under the school laws of the State : Provided, however, that the State Treasurer shall pay no bill for at least thirty days from the time it is rendered in order that he may be notified by the school commissioners of any error or failure on the part of the publisher or publishers to supply books as ordered and directed, or as billed. Sec. 3. It shall bo the duty of the clerk of each school district or dis tricts to distribute the books received, as aforesaid, to the scholars of the district or districts, or their parents, guardians, or other person, as they may desire, upon receipt for the same. The clerk of each district or districts shall be responsible for the safe keep ing of the books furnished him, as aforesaid, >nd also for prices of books sold, as hereinafter provided, to parents, guardians, scholars or other persons. Any money or the value of the books which stich clerks shall fail to account for, according to law, may be recovered in the name of the State by the county superintendent, before 9 justice of the peace, as other ac counts, when the amount does not ex ceed the sum of two hundred dollars. Such clerk shall, at the expiration of his term of office, turn over to his sue in office all books on haul and take a receipt for the same, which shall be his voucher in settlement. of in or " of be of 80 the E ot cessor S*c. 4. It shall be the duty of the school commissioners to provide for tbe safe keeping and care of the books which Bhall be returned by the pupils at the close of the annual school term to the clerk of the district, or to such other person as the school commissioners shall designate. They shall also keep a separate account of the amount expended for books and shall report it under a separate item in the annual settlement required by law. The school commissioners may furnish books at cost to pupils who wish to replace books lost or willfully destroyed, or who may wish to own their books ; and shall turn the pro ceeds of all such sales into the school fund of the district and report the amount at the time of the annual settlement to State Auditor. at Sec. 5. It shall be the duty ' of evsry teacher employed under the provisions of the general school laws to make out and hand to the com missioners of the district, at the end of each quarter, a report setting forth the whole number of pupils attend foi v ing the school during the quarter, designating whether male or - female, the number of days each has attend ed, and an inventory of the books _ in the school belonging to the district, stating by whom such books are held, their condition and the number of and by whom books have been des troyed. Until such report shall have beeu made it shall not be lawful for the commissioners to pay such teach er his or her salary. The reports made in pursuance of this section shall be forwarded annually, in the month of April, by the clerks of the several districts to the county super intendents. Sec. 6. The State treasurer shall be allowed $500 annually for postage, stationery, clerical assistance, etc., to carry out the provisions of this act, and is authorized to pay out of the school fund of the State the amount necessary to print order books suffi cient to supply one to each district,- in the State. for Sec. 7. That the text tiie colored schools of the State «ball be ordered by the county superintend ents of the respective counties through the county treasurer of each county. It shall be the duty of the county the order of the treasurer, upon county superintendent, to purchase and furnish text books td-#uch color ed school or schools as the county superintendent shall designate, and the county treasurer shall charge the same to the said school or schools, and deduct the amount thereof from the State appropriation due such school or schools. Sec. 8. That it shall be the duty of the teacher of each of the colored schools of the State- at the close of their school year, and before their last month's salary shall be drawn, to make out an inventory of the books in the school belonging to the State, and deliver such inventory with the books to the county superintendent, or such person as he shall designate, who shall receive and label the same " Property - colored school, -hundred," and deposit the same in his office. At the opening of the following school year the county superintendent, or other person in possession of such books, upon receipt tor the same, shall deliver the books belonging to the respective colored schools to the teacher of the school. Sec. 9. The county treasurer shall receive as a compensation for his services in purchasing the text books for the colored schools the sum of $50.00 per annum, the same to be deducted out of the State appropria tion tor the colored schools of the county.« , Sec. 10. The county' superinten dents shall have the entire manage ment, control and supervision of the colored schools of this State. It shall be his duty, having due regard to the educational interests of colored child ren, to decide upon the location of colored schools, to appoint, after a careful examination, suitable teachers for the same and to draw upon the eouuty treasurer for the money due monthly for the running expenses of those schools. His authority over said colored schools shall extend over those now governed under special acts of incorporation, and to this end the said connty superintendents shall appoint all teachers for the said in corporated schools and fix their salaries ; be shall draw from the county treasurer that portion of the State appropriation for colored schools belonging to the said incorporated schools and apply the same toward the payment of the salaries of the teachers of said schools in the same manner as in the payment of salaries of the teachers of other sohools not in corporated, The appropriation pro vided for in " An act to encourage the education of the colored people," passed at Dover, April 22, 1887, is hereby increased from the sum of six thousand dollars to the sum of nine thousand dollars per annum, the said sum of nine thousand dollars to be distributed in the same proportion and under the same conditions as the thousand dollars referred to in the act above named ; provided, however, that the Stats Treasurer shall pay, out of the said nine thousand dollars, to the State Board of Education, the oi five hundred dollars per sum annum for a period of four years, the said five hundred dollars to be de E osited in the Farmers' Bank at )over to the order of the State Board of Education by its president and secretary, to be used as a fund for building, repairiug, or furnishing school supplies under tbe direction ot the said State Board of Education ; provided, however, that the said State Board of Education shall appropriate no part of the said five hundred dollars to any locality for the purpose of erecting a.new schoolhouse or other purpose unless the residents of that locality shall first raise among them selves for that purpose a sum equal to at least one-half the amount which the said State Board in its discretion shall agree to allow them. At the eod of the said period of four years the remaining portion, if any, of the said building fund shall be returned to tbe State Treasurer and by him distributed in like manner as other funds belonging to colored schools. S*o. U. The county superin tendents shall, after (be second Tuesday of April, 1891, before en tering upon tbe duties of their offices, give bond to the State oi Delaware, with sureties to be approved by the Governor, in the penalty of five thousand dollars. The condition of the bond shall be that he shall well and truly account for all public money and for all school books or other property belonging to the State that may come into his hands, and the said bond shall be duly Recorded in the office of the Secretary of State. Sec. 12. In the month of June in each and every year the Auditor of Accounts shall settle with the county superintendents, who shall render a full account for moneys paid to color ed teachers or expended for colored schools, and present vouchers for prop er expenditure of the same. The county suDerintendents shall have no power to authorize or deputize other person or persons to discharge their du tries in connection with said colored schools ; and any money expended for colored schools by such agent, deputy or other person shall not be allowed the county superintendents in settlement. Sec. 13. That from and after the passage of this act the Governor of the State shall be a member of, and by virtue of his office, president of the State Board of Education in lieu of the president of Delaware College as now provided by law. Sec. 14, That none of the provi sions of this act shall apply to the city of Wilmington. Sec. 15 That any laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. Sec. 16. That on and after the passage of this act the annual school meeting shall be held on the last Sat urda y of June in each and every year, instead of the first Saturday of April as now provided by law, and all school commissioners, clerks, directors, or trustees now in office shall continue in office until the last Saturday in June, A. D. 1892, when v acancies shall be filled in the same manner as they now are at the annual meeting. Sec. 17. The time for assessing cL levying taxes for any purpose in each district or consolidated or incor porated district or districts in this State shall hereafter be in the month of July in each and every year, com mencing jn July, 1892. The time for the execution and delivery of the collector's warrant with a duplicate of the uncollected assessment list shall be on the teqth day of August in each year or as soon thereafter as practicable, commencing, as aforesaid, on the tenth day of August, A. D., 1892. Between the determining ol the rate and the tenth day of August in each year, as aforesaid, each tax able shall have the privilege of pay ing the amount of tax assessed against him, less the abatement, as now pro vided for by law. Sec. 18. That on and after the year 1891 the annual settlement to be made with the school committees by the Auditor of Accounts shall be between the first day of September and the first day of December in each year, due notice of the time of settle ment to be given by said Auditor. Sec. 19. That the terms of the present county superintendents shall be extended until the second Tues day in July A. D. 1892, and there after their successors in office shall be appointed for the term of one year, commencing on the second Tuesday in July A. D 1892. Passed at Dover, May 13, 1891. an CHAPTER 68, VOLUME XIX. Sec. 1. That Section 8, Chapter 369, Volume 16, Laws of Delaware, be amended by striking out, the words ''and fifty" in the seventh line of said section ; and that said section be fur ther amended by striking out| the words "and twenty-five" in the 8th line of the section aforesaid.'* 1 ♦Note. —This act so amends the law previously in force as to provide that the several school districts in New Castle county and Kent county are re quired to raise only one hundred dol lars by tax to entitle them to draw their dividend from the Sta te School Fund. How Tired I Am How often do we hear men and women exclaim : " how tired I am," as they go forth to battle with the duty and labors of the day. They little dream of the cause of all their apparent physical discomfiture. They never think that their debilitated feelings come from the want of neces sary and proper hours of sleep. They never think of the fact that sleep obtained two hours before midnight, when the negative forces are in opera tion, is the rest which most recuper ates the system, giving brightness to the eye and a glow to the cheek. School teachers, whose duties are not only perplexing, but debilitating by confinement in over crowded school rooms, constantly breathing a poison ous atmosphere, are known to become pale, languid and fretful, but it is not all from the conditions referred to. They sit up until 12 o'clock or, per haps, 1 and 2 a. m., very often, read ing some silly, nonsensical novel, and get very little rest when they finally retire for the night. The difference is marked in the ap pearance of a person who habitually retires at 1«» o'clock, and one who sits up until after 12. The tone of the system, so evident in the com plexion, the clearness and sparkle of the eye, and the softness of the features, are, 5 n a person of health, kept at concert pitch by taking regular rest two hours before 12 o'clock, and thereby obtaining the beauty of sleep of which this regular ity is the parent. It cannot be con tradicted that there is a heaviness of the eye, a sallowness of the skin, ab sence of that glow in the face which renders it fresh in expression and round in appearance, that readily dis tinguishes the person who habitually keeps late hours. Young ladies, take this advice. The enormous crops of peaches and every other variety of fruit this year have created a boom in the manufac ture of fruit cans, kettles, and all kinds of canning utensils. Manufac turers say they had prepared for a heavy trade, but the demand is great ly in excess of their expectations, and they are unable to keep up with the orders still pouring in. The canneries getting peaches for five cents a basket, and the peach growers now claim that the season is a disastrous one because the crop is so large and prices so low, and because they have not facilities to ship their products anyhow.—New York San. are A NARROW ESCAPE. On the second day after our arrival in Krasnoyarsk we narrowly escaped getting into what might have been serious trouble as the result of an un expected perquisition in the house of the acquaintance with whom Shama riu and Peterson were staying. This acquaintance, it seemed, was under suspicion, and late in the evening, during the absence of the two young men from their quarters, the police suddenly appeared with orders to make a house-search. The search was duly made, but nothing of a sus picious nature was found except the two locked trunks of Shamarin and Petteson. In reply to a question as to what was in them the proprietor of the house said that he did not know, that they were the property of two of his acquaintances who had stopped for few days with him on their way from Irkutsk to St. Petersburg. Upon be ing asked where these acquaintances* were, he replied that he did not know, that they usually weot out after din ner and returned between eleven and twelve o'clock. After a brief consul tation the police officers decided that as they had no. orders to search the personal baggage of the house owner's guests they would not force the locks of the trunks, but would merely cord and seal them so that the contents could not be tampered with and leave them until morning. When Shamarin and Peterson re turned to their quarters about mid night they fouud their trunks corded and sealed so that they could not be opened. In one of them were many letters from political exiles and con victs in Eastern Siberia to friends and relatives in European Russia—letters describing my investigations and the nature of the material that I was col lecting and asking the friends and rel atives in European Russia to cooper ate with me—and a photograph of myself that I had given to Shamarin with a dedication or inscription on the back that would reveal to any intelli gent police officer the intimate nature of my relations with political convicts. What was to be done ? To break a police seal under such circumstances would be a penal offense, and would probably lead to imprisonment and an investigation. To leave the letters and photograph in the trunk wonld be to insure their discovery and confis cation on the following morning, and that might .create a very embarrassing situation for me, as well as for the authors of the letters and their friends. The two young men finally concluded to make an attempt to get the trunk open without removing the cords or breaking the seals, and as the letters and photograph were near the bottom, and as the lid could not be raised even if the trunk were unlocked, they de cided to take out a part of the bottom and afterward replace it. By working all the rest of the night they succeed ed in getting out odo of the bottom boards, obtained the dangerous letters and photograph, put the board back without disturbing any of the seals,, and when the police came in the morn ing stood by with unruffled serenity and saw the trunks searched. Of course nothing more dangerous than a hair brush, and nothing more incrim inating than a hotel bill, could be found.—George Kennan, in the Sep tember Century. Nothing Green About Him. He was an elderly man, probaby 50 His whiskers grew in a little tuft like Uncle Sam's, straight out from the poiut of his chin ; his linen duster was evidently the same he had purchased to attend the state fair several years He came out to the front end of ago. the depot and, gazed around in a be wildered fashion, up and down and across the street, and half a dozen cabqien rushed for him headlong. "Cab, sir? Cab, sir? This way!" "Any part of the city, sir; nice cab!" "Take you to a good hotel, sir, tor a quarter ?" One had his grip, the other the um brella and the third had him pinioned by the ample folds of his duster. Just then a well-dressed man who had been watching the occurrence approached, and waiving the cabmen aside, said : "Where do you want to go, sir?" He recovered his grip, umbrella and breath first, glanced up at the man, grinned a sardonic, rural, spasmodic grin, and as he gripped his belongings and backed off remarked sarcastically: "That's none of your darned busi You'd like ter know wbar I „ from, too, wouldn't ye ? An' ef my folks is all well, an' how the crops are? Mebbe you know somebody down in our town an' an used to play on my farm when you was a boy ? Speak out, ain't I right? An't my name Smith an' don't I remember Hiram Johnson and his boy Dick that off to Californy ? An' don't I re cognize you ? Yes, I guess I do, an ef you don't git right out'n hyar 'tar nal quick I'll call the perfice, I will I know yer didos I ain't been in In dianapolis five times for nothin' an' don't take the papers jest for the crop reports. You git now, quick." ' But I assure you, sir, you are mis taked. I don't know you and don't want to. I only thought" "Thought I'd like to cash a check, or play a lottery, or buy green goods, eh ? Whar's your pardner ? Ain't it pretty near time fer him ter show up?" " I tell you, sir, you are mistaken. I am in the employ of this railway, and just thought I might save you trouble with those cabmen. ness. come run some Now go on, and if you do get buncoed, why don't say it wasn't your own fault," and the irate young man retir ed up stairs to the company's offices. The agriculturist winked the other eye in admiration of his own shrewd and, calling a cabman, said: "Young man, you.take me to th building ; that's whar the Universal Investment Company is, an't it? They advertise to pay $100 in six months on a $1 a week put in, an,' begosb, I'm goin' ter buy some shares. Ther better 'n county bonds." ness Tbe horseshoe crab chews its food with its legs. Possibility of Mechanical Fight. Above us in the it ? ^_ traversed because it was always ered with fields of thin ice, which gave way lender foot, which indeed permit ted vessels to be launched and to float but which compelled them to move wherever the ice drifted. Suoh vessels would resemble our balloons, and be of as little practical urn; but now sup pose we are told " The ice which has always been your obstacle may be made your very means of -transport, for you can glide last enough, and ex periments will prove not only how fast you must go to make the ice bear, but that it is quite within the limits of your strength to go with tile re quisite speed." AH this might be true, and yet if no one had ever leaned to skate, every trial of this really excel aerial ocean, stretching over all Tands, and offering an always open way to them, yet a way that has never yet been thus trod den. Can it be that the (lower we always; lacked is at last found, and that it only remains to learn to guide Let me, in answering, compare the case to that which would present itself if the actual ocean had never been cov lent plan would .probably end in disas ter. as all past efforts to fly have done Indeed, in our actual experience with the air, men have coma to the same kind of wrong conclusion as would have been reached in supposing that the ice could not be traversed, because no one had the strength to skate, while the troth would be that man has plenty of strength to skate, but is not born with the skill. The similie is defective so far as it suggests that man can sustain himself by his nnaided strength on calm air, which I believe to be impracticable ; but it is the object of these experi ments to-prove that he has now the power to sustain himself with the aid of engines recently constructed, and by means I indicate as Boon as he has skill to direct them. If asked whether this method of flight will soon be put in practice, I should haye to repeat that what has E receded is matter of demonstration, ut this is matter of opinion. Ï ressing, then, a personal onini should answer, " Yes. fix It is hard ly possible that these secondary dif ficulties will not be soon conquered by the skill of our 'inventors and engi neers, whose attention * is already beginning to be drawn to the fact that here is a new field open to them, and though I have not experimented for enough to say that the relatione of power to weight here established for small machines will hold indefinitely large ones, it is certain they do so hold at any rate for enough to enable us to transport, at speeds which ' make us practically independent of the wind, weights much greater than that of man. Progress is rapid now, espec ially in invention, and it is possible— it seems to me even probable— that before the century closes we shall see this universal road of the all-embrac ing air, which recognizes none of man's boundaries, traveled in every direction with an effect on some of the conditions of our existence which will mark this among ail the wonders the century has seen.—Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in the Sep tember Century. It is Worry That Kills. It is not the work, but the worry which kills. There is no tonic for the body tike regular woik ot the mind, though this is unfortunately not often appreciated or not allowed by the physicians to whom anxious mothers take their growing daughters. There is nothing so sure to steady the nerves of the fretful . and excitable child as regular school work in the hands of a real teacher. Many a child who is celebrated tor dangerous fits of temper at home becomes entire ly transformed under the influence of such a school till her nearest relatives would not recognize her if they should ever take the time and the trouble to visit the school room. I do not mean a school-room full of competitive examinations, of " marks," and of irrevelant inducements to make the child commit tog memory a of unrelated and undigested facto —I mean one where, without any inducement but the natural desire for knowledge, which is all sufficient with any American child if it be rightly directed, you fiud steady and well ordered labor, without baste, though not without rest, and honest, thorough and pleasurable work. We may learn a lesson from this—for it is no theory— of the effect of regular work on our tired nerves, and wue shall we pply it. Even the most homeopathic physician could not object to this kind of tonic, though he would tell you, and truly, that touics are worse titan no use for overworked nerves.— From Harper's Magazine. be if we a consistent The Reason Why. , A Leominster housekeeper, while looking over some old letters of her great-great-grandmother ran across the following : Dear, Good John —We shall have to put off our marriage, mother is making such an awful fius about it I don't want to a bit now we are pub lished but I have to. She says you ain't old enough and I don't know anything, and then there is ~so much expense about it Now, John, just think of it My dress will be only nine shillings ($1.50), and my new calf-3kin shoes would do. She says me until you cm your own. Father you shan't marry keep two eows of is willing >nd says he will give us the sheep, but mother say» be shan't, and you know she always carries the day. Darn it 1 I wish »be could not have got married herself. Now, John let us stick to each other. . I shall be eighteen in about ten months more. Now, yon holtf on, won't you, John? Coo* Sunday nigfck wjth the gray • and ride The '