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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.
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assortment of Ladies' Coats, in
We have a veiy pretty
plain and fancy stripes from £1.25 and upwards.
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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.
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These goods guaranteed to be in good drilling condition.
ALSO, DEALERS IN FERTILIZER MATERIALS
OF ALL KINDS. *
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FOR ONE YEAR.
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Special Attbstiox given to the accounts ot
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H. C. ROBINSON,
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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,
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ESTABLISHED 186 S.
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Strictly Pure Natural Seed and
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lrom healthy bearing
A fall line ot Trait, shade and ornamental
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Verbenas, Geraniums, Ac., Ac. All kinds
Early and Late Vegetable plants In season.
All orders by mail will receive prompt
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tree on application. Address
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E. R. COCHRAN & CO.,
MIDDLETOWN, DEL.
HUTCHISON 4 SURER,
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Commission Merchants,
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409 New Market Street, Phllada.
W Any information in regard to ship
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For Sale.
BRICK DWELLING AND STORE at
tached, situated on the corner ot Mail
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The property is In first-class order and will
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signed expects to leave the state.
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House for Sale.
T HE STORE AND DWELLING combined
on Main Street, near the depot, now occu
pied by the undersigned. Excellent site foi
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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
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of
be
of
80
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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
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