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MIDDLETOWN, SEP. 2, 1893. 2
Tlie date on tbe label on your
llaper ahow» tbe time to wtalcb
your anbacrlptln la paid to_
THE COUNT! TAXES.
A substantial citizen of Wilmington
told us a day or two ago that be under
took to pay his county tax for 1893 on
tbe day previous, a working day, and
called at the county tax office at tbe
Court House in Wilmington for that
Tbe amonnt of the tax was
than fifty d illars. Imagine his
purpose,
more
surprise when told that he could not
pay his tax; that Receiver of Taxes
Dickey was "now sitting in the coun
try" (for taxes presumably,) and that
the tax payer must call again. The
clerk or spokesman present could not
tell when Dickey would sit in that city
again, but whenever he did, and the
tax payer by some chance or another
should discover it, the tax could then
be paid. This is-tfce nineteenth cen
tury and we live in what is popularly
said to be tbe greatest country on
earth I
We may add tbat New Castle County
is one of the richest, most populous
and in tbe things tbat make up a
community one of the greatest counties
in tbe Union, but it is subject to tbe
most puerile and tbe most contempti
ble system of tax collection that man
bas ever devised, and it goes without
saying that John T. Dickey is pecu
liarly and entirely worthy of filling tbe
tax office and of executing its policy.
In this great county, from whose
people is annually levied over a quarter
of a million of dollars for alleged
public purposes, a citizen of Wilming
ton is constrained to sit at tbe Court
House and watch for an opportunity
to pay the county's representative
fifty or sixty dollars in taxes. In this
town if the collector of the taxes for
school purposes could possibly afford
it he would open an office and hang out
a sign, declaring bis willingness, nay
bis anxiety, to receive the district
taxes. There is not a man or woman
doing a business in this town, however
modest in its proportions, but bas
opened a store or an*office, has adver
tised bis busiuess, has made every
legitimate effort to attract trade,
which is money, and has religiously
kept open bis place of business every
day in tbe year except Sundays. To
accommodate tbpir customers some
have even opened their stores on Sun
day. From the earliest hour in tbe
morning until the latest in the evening
these business men and woman are
at their posts, despising not the small
est sums and working hard to get tbe
larger amounts. No pains are spared
and no efforts are too gi^at to get into
band a few dollars. This statement is
perhaps truer to-day than ever before.
The times are harder, the customers
more careful, and tbe profits smaller.
What is true of the business men of
Middletown is true of every business
man, be be farmer or tradesman or
professional man, throughout the en
tire county and country.
Men who wish to do business in
variably have a place to do it in, and
they keep that place open every work
ing day in the year. If they cannot be
there personally each day, they employ
an agent or clerk to do business for
them in their absence. This rule ap
plies not only to private business, but
everywhere in tbe civilized world, ex
cept Delaware, does it'al 80 apply to
public business. Even here it applies
to all public business except tbe col
lection of county taxes. ' For example
in tbe collection of municipal taxes
the city of Wilmington employes four
capable men all tbe year round. These
men work from 8 a. m., to 6 p. m.,
with one hour at noon for dinner.
For eight hours each working day in
the year business can be transacted in
the city tax office in Wilmington. At
the court house the well paid couuty
officials work from 8 a. m., till 5 p. m.,
daily, and if business is pressing they
are glad to remain at their desks until
after 6 o'clock.
in
to
to
to
of
. Why is business conducted differ
ently in the county tax office? All our
readers know why. Three or four
years ago an agitation was started to
get rid of tbe old system of tax collect
ing and Its infamous tyrannies and de
falcations. Tbe late lamented Na
thaniel Williams was perhaps the
leader of that reform. He and many
of bis co-workers were as honest as
they were earnest. The present sys
tem is the outcome of tbe "reform,
and it is even worse thaa the old sys
tem. In its application thecollector has
.bat one purpose—the disfranchisement
of political opponents. For this pur
pose he makes it impossible for a per
son to pay tax in Wilmington when he
is "sitting in the country,
dishonest and unmanly purpose he
keeps but one county seal and compels
tbe tens of thousands of taxables and
tax items to pass under a single stamp.
For this purpose is the great city of
Wilmington confined to three months
• year in the payment of its taxes and
tbe rest of this great county only two
mont»»», for no certainty is found ln>
collectom
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For this
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F of I
tax
tl»t
eher
paying taxes to delin
Who, as has been exp<
mington, in Mill Crg
hundreds, haj^niany
the old-tit n# MBoc toH
be
of votes, are confined to five months a
year, frdm July- 1st until the New
Year.
THB PRESIDENT'S HEALTH
According to "Holland's" letter to
the Philadelphia Press in its issue of
August 30, President Cleveland, for
two months past, bas been anything
else but a well man. It seems that
while the country supposed that he was
enjoying himself on Mr. Benedict's
yacht during the several days of his
trip from Washington to Gray Gables
during the early pàrt-of July, he was '
the hands of surgeons, and undergoing
to
m
a painful operation.
Some of the news papers ridicule the
idea that anything more serious than
the extraction of some troublesome
teeth constituted the President's ail
But that his malady was of a
ment.
nature such as to cause great suffering
to himself, and much anxiety to his
friends, is too well authenticated to
admit of denial. AH of this explains
the air of mystery that has seemed to
attend the President's movements dur
ing tbe summer.
While it is the country's right to
know the condition of its President's
health, it is also a fact that a vast por
tion of the people, regardless of politi
cal affiliation, feel that Mr. Cleveland
alone stands between the country and
iminent peril, and if it were generally
known that his life was in danger the
present mistrust that is abroad through
out tbe laud, would turn into the wild
est kind of a panic, and we can now
see why it was perhaps wise to keep the
knowledge of his real condition from
the public, for a great many people who
have no confidence whatever in the
Democrat party do steadfastly rely on
Mr. Cleveland to adhere to a conser
vative and wise policy in a time of
peril.
It is reassuring to know that the
operation by the surgeons was success
ful and that he is growing strong and
well.
Whatever our political differences
may be, there is one element in the
Anglo-Saxon make-up that demands
fair play, and every patriotic heart in
the land will sympathize with 'the
President in his suffering and trying
ordeal, and the more so when it is
known that in keeping his trouble from
the knowledge of the public for the
public good caused bim tobe misunder
stood and unfairly criticised.
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HOME PRODUCTS AND FOREIGN
MARKETS.
With a shortage of over one hun
dred and twenty million bushels in tbe
wheat crop in this country as compared
with last year, and wheat going abroad
in immense quantities, we would ordi
narily expect'wheat to command a
price that would pay the farmer, but
to tbe contrary we find the price below
cost of production, and that of cotton
and wool approaching the free trade
level. There is no reason why wheat
should not sharply advance when once
the present financial disturbances are
quieted, with the mills and factories of
the country running with full force
and on futt time, the home market
would be sure to put wheat at a good
price before spring.
In conversation ftith a gentleman, a
few days since, who has had large ex
perience in the grain business, he re
marked, that he had seen, the day be
fore, carloads of wheat of best quality
that could not be sold for any money,
because of the present contraction. At
the same time remarking that there
were no buyers except, for foreign
market, and they are always low
priced. This illustrates the fact that,
to the American farmer, the home
market is of all tha world, tlie one on
which his hope may rest.
Any policy of government this side
the Atlantic' which tends to lower the
level of wages of that vast portion of
our population who dwell in cities and
work in machine shops and elsewhere,
tends also to put the farmer of the
United States on a level with the peas
antry of Europe. When wheat is
sixty cents per bushel cheap tiu, or no
tin at all, is a mater .of no consequence
to the husbandman, for he simply has
nothing with which to buy. The pre
sent "object lesson" of enforced idle
ness on tbe part of a great portion of
the consumers of the produc s of the
soil, ought to be plain enough to pene
trate the understanding of any deciple
of the penny-wise-pound-foolish doc
trine of free trade as applied to the
farmer.
I
HOW HOUSE The voted.
An analysis of the vote on the
Wilson Bill in the Housj of Represen
tatives develops a curious stale of
affairs in the Democratic party. The
vote stood 225 ay es and 124 nays. Of
the 225 ayes 113 were Democrats and
112 Republicans. Of the 124 nays 112
were Democrats and 12 Republicans and
Populists. Showing that had the de
termination been left to 'he Democratic
party alone they would have had but 1
majority on the Presidents recomnieu
dation. It also clearly demonstrates
that the Democratic party is split right
in half, and that they cannot be relied
on to support the administration unan
imously or even give anything like a
hearty support, and while the majority
in favor of the Repeal is overwhelming
yet it would not havq been so had not
tbe Republicans almost to a man voted
for honest money. The Repeal Bill
could not have passed without their
support. Mr. Cleveland recognized
this fact when he appealed to the pa
triotism of the Republican party in
this cricis. He could well count on
their support, for never was the oppor
tunity offered that the Republican
party did not demonstrate its unyield
ing adherence to tbe cause of honest
money as well as the other principles of
sound government.
))
We think the point raised in last
weeks, issue by one ot Mill
brightest young ladies that in
jgjf her tax to Reeeiver Dickey sh»
was compelled to go to tbe pool robin
I of the hotel, was very well taken. Why
assessment lists.of all kinds must be
hong up in a hotel, and why Receivers
Aust; sit there are questions of public
towns
by
interest. Those who are not in the
habit of frequenting such places, espec
ially ladies, find it very distasteful to
be compelled to go there. We are con
fident other places^ could be '.secured,
free of charge.
Board of Trade for instance, the 'Squire
office or the Transcript office.
Tie rooms of the
as
In refusing admission to the senators
from Washington, Wyoming and Mon
tana, the Senate establishes the princi
ple that when a state legislature in
session fails to eleet a U. S. senator
the Governor of the state cannot ap
point a senator to fill the vacancy thus
caused. These three states must re
main partially unrepresented until
their next session, but they have no one
to blame but their own Legislatures.
It is with sincere sorrow we note
the death of Solomon Herse.v, clerk of
the municipal court of Wilmington
and editor of the Daily Republican.
He was a man of a rugged nature,
his convictions and fearless
strong in
in expression of them. Though an
ardent Republican he was respected by
his political opponents and .won for
himself an enviable position in the
hearts of his fellow men. A man of
more than ordinary ability, of a sturdy
character and withal ui right and hon
est, Solomon Hersey's place iu the
community w ill be hard to fill.
lie did
his best.
The following report of the Agri
cultural Bureau as to the condition of
t e leadi >g crops for August, shows a
marked decrease in almost every state,
especially in the wheat growing sec
tions. Yet the price remains pheno
minally low:
Bar- Pola
Sprlng
Corn, wtneat rye oats ley toes
NcwTork. . . w 94 91 *i 77 90
Pennsylvahia . 81 «1 » *> S
Ohio. 85 90 80 90 89
Michigan ... 91 72 80 85
Indiana . . . 79 64 MJ 95
Illinois ... 81 % % I 78 85
67 73 80
81
80 91
96 75
scousin. . . 98
iTnesota » . . loi
Wi
Ml
75 9(1 93
83 IS
51 35 77
1112 87
Iowa
Missouri .... 95
Kansas .... 82
Nebraska ... 84 58 57 50
South Dakota. 9 ! 63 68 53 . 0 85
North Dakota. 92 66 67 76 78 82
Washington. . 95 97 103 102 103 91
Oregon. £9 . 81 81 85 88
Calilornia... 98 81 33
90 93 81
a
91
92 94
Vacation daysare ended all over atd
the land our schools, colleges and uni
versities are preparing to open their
doors to youth and maiden and merry
hearted school boy.
by necessity debarred from the privi
leges of broad culture, wbile others,
bred in luxury, fail to appeciate tbeir
opportunities and go with lagging foot
steps to obtain life's greatest boon.
But it is a proven fact tbat tbe great
men of the nation have come from tbe
ranks that have had to struggle for
self-improvement, and those who have
obtained learning without any sacrifice
seldom set a high value upon it. The
plea to-day is not so much to make
easy the road to learning, as to give
youth a thorough and practical
knowledge of a few things and not
simply the the theories of many tilings.
Thousands are,
our
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, August 23, 1893.—
The all-absorbing silver fight has now
been transferred to the Senate, the
House having passed the Wilson bill
for the unconditional repeal of the pur
chasing clause of the silver law, as it
has been plain for a week that it would
do. The Wilson bill now goes to the
Senate where it will be referred to the
Finance committe, never to be heard
t.-om again. The reason why this bill
will be shelved by the Senate comm
ittee is that the majority of Senators
who favor unconditional repeal prefer
the Yoorhees bill for the same purpose,
with its tail-piece declaring it to be
the policy of the Government to man
tain a bi-metallic currency. As a
matter of fact this declaration carries
weight without .Additional legis
lation, but it implies that there will be
future legislation and that implication
is relied upon to gain the votes of Sen
ators who would otherwise not vote
Whether
no
for unconditional repeal,
this will prove to be true only time can
tell.
There are many rumors of defections
among the Southern free-coi nage Sena
tors, and the claim is boldly being
made that a number of them will,
after makiug free-coinage speeches,
vote for unconditional repeal. Sena
tors Coll and Taach, of Florida, are
said to have made positive promises to
that effect. So confident are the ad
ministration Senators that they can get
enough votes from the South to pass
the bill, if they can only get it to a vote
I hat a proposi.ion has been made to
Republican Senators who favor free
coinage, not to vote for unconditional
repeal' but merely to agree to allow a
vote to be taken. It was stated to
ihem. tbat if they would secure that
agreement the Democratic Senators
would agree that the tariff should not
be disturbed at this session of Congress,
The proposition was declined,
making this proposition the adminis
tration men showed that they realize
the difficulty in getting tne bill through
the Senate, even if they can get the
promise of the votes of a majority of
the Senators. Under the present rules
of the Senate, which will not be chan
ged, twenty Senatois can, if so dis
posed, stave off indefinitely the taking
of a vote on the bill, and that more
than that number are at present so
disposed there can be no doubt. The
outcome of this matter depends upon
whether the men who now stand for
free coinage or nothing can be persua
ded or coerced into allowing a vote
to be taken. Mr. Cleveland will return
to Washington this week for the pur.
pose of adding his personal influence
to those already being brought to bear
on the Sontberh Senators to vote for
repeal.
In
[ere is one good piece of news, that
ki^|jyj|gj^every man interested
in try. There
eyMtfiorized
3, tbe. House
In the welfare of thi
will be no wild-cat c
at this session of Co
committee on Bank!
having a majority at
-4.. 'A
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the repeal of the tax on State bank
currency. Whether knowingly or not
does not matter, but Speaker Crisp
certainly did the country a great ser
vice when he made up that committee
by selecting a majority opposed to wild
cat money.
F
One of the best, as well as one of the
most conservative, of the speeches
made in the House during the silver
debate was that delivered by ex-Speaker
Beed on Saturday. He was at bis be.t
and was as warmly congratulated a 1
the close of his speech by Democrats
as by Bepublicans.
The new rules of the House are much
better than those used by the last
House, but are not as good as the
much-abused Reed rules, which they
follow to a cer'ain extent.
The number of Democratic Con
gressmen who do not agree with the
administration in its treatment of pen
sioners is increasing, or pti liais it
would be more correct to say that the
will
number of those who have the courage
to express their opinion is growing
The latest casé is that
*Ine
larger.
General Dan Sickles, who represents
one of the New York city districts, the
nomination having been given him by
Tammany to pieveut his bolting the
Clfcvelaad ticket. In a speecli on the
silver question Gen. Sickles advocated
as one of the methods of temporarily
relieving the money stringency that
pension claims due October 1st, be paid
at once' He said .in tbat connection;
"Why not pay out now to this large
mass of public creditors distributed all
over tbe country—men and women and
children who have the most touching
claims upon public gratitude—$30,000,.
000, in small bills and silver? The
money will go where it will do the
most good among the brave men who
do not hoard their pittance from dis
ly
so
that
will
K.
trust of the Government they saved i
and who are to-day febble aud infirm,
and unable to find employment to earn
Good as this suggest ion is
»,
a living.
there is little or no probability of its
being adopted,
tbat pays out pension money grud
gingly after it is due will not be likely
to anticipate the payment of a dollar
of it.
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The Baltimore and Ohio Rail road Co.,
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the World's Fair, for which excursion
tickets to Chicago will be sold at rate of
one fare for the round trip from Philadel
phia Division. The dates selected are
September 2d, 6th and 12th. The special
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the speoial trains are scheduled to stop.
They- will be valid for return journey in
day coaches on all trains leaving Chicago
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There's a good many goods
just now that are on thetobog.
gan, and the slide is pretty
rapid.
The balance of our China
Silks are now 37^0. per yard.
All of our Shanghai Silks
are reduced from 75c. to 44c.
These are the genuine goods
and it will be long before you
see them again at this price.
What are left of the fine
Wash Silks st 5oand85cents
are now 40 and 50 cents.
We have had a magnificent
sale on our Pineapple Cloths,
which we reduced from 25 to
16 cents, There's been many
imitations of these elegant
fabrics put on the market, but
non can compare in qurlity to
ours. Many styles are gone;
the lot shows signs of the
heavy buying, Yet still there
remains good patterns, mostly
in pink and blue grounds,
with neat figures- What are
left we shall sell for 9 cents
per yard. . Think of it! 25
cent fabrics for 9 cents,
nearly three dresses for one.
You had better ?oin the pro
cession.
More reductions in Lawn
Waists—to 50 cents each.
White, edged with pink and
blue, ruffled neck, Jarboe
front—$1.25 to 50c.
All white, fine front trucks,
sailor collar, cuffs edged with
Hamburg, $1 to 50c.
Black Lawn, fine grade,
with plaited front and back,
ruffles of same, $1.25 to 50c.
Figured Irish Lawn, with
Jarbo front, plaited back,
pinks and blues, neat figures,
$1 to 50c.
Balance of our Silk Waists
go to the limit, and not many
of them.
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One 38 in., was $9.50, now $5.
One 36 in., was $10, now $5.
Seven 35 in., were $3 75, now $2,50.
Two 34 in., were $4.50, now $2.75.
These are all in stripe Wash
Silks of different combina
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Our Phaeton Buggy, :
With Leather Boof and Back »
Certain, and Bobber Bide t
Curtains. Trimming, Green {
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W. L. DOUGLAS
S3 SHOE moVWip.
Do you wear them? When next In need by a pair.
Best In the world.
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62.50
62.25
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FOR
If you want a fine DRESS SHOE, mad* In th« latort
styles, don't pay $6 to $8, try my $3, $3.50, $4.00 or
$5 Shoe. They fit equal to custom made and look and
wear as well. If you wish to economize In your footwear,
do so by purchasing W. L Douglas Shoes. Name and
price stamped on the bottom, look for It when you buy.
W. L. DOUGLAS. Brockton. Huh Sold la
S. M. REYNOLDS A CO.
Lumber !
Hardware !
Mill Work !
Paints!
Fencing Wires!
Coal, Hard & soft.
Wood, ready sawed !
Building Lime !
Agricultural Lime !
Drain Tile!
dec.« dec», &■
La® Yarislf! Bast Osalilv 1
Lowest Prioss!
G. E. HUKILl,
Middletown, Del,
DR. THEEL,
KQQ North Fourth St., Philadel
phia (Deutscher Arst). AU,
SECRET and private diseases of men
and women cured, fresh caseè In a few
days; also gleet, blood poisoning,
ulcers, skin diseases, youthful errors,
nervous debility ; lost vitality re
stored : strictures and catarrh cured.
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quack.
THEY SWINDLED HIM.
Ä FRANK B.POEWERS says : "Ihort the m is fort un e
to wreck my life by abuse, had blood poison, strict*
ures, discharges, unpleasant
dreams, low spirits, loss of halrw ^
and face full of Pl»pl lea; had duo
Voted with three travelling doctors. W
two Philadelphia and three New m
York advertising quacks: used
patent medicines of ail kinds, and
was swindled by museum concerns. | c
etc., etc., besides suffering untold
misery ; and haring taken all these
poisonous and worthless medicines
I was left nothing but 8k,n and
bone; but fortunately I chanced
adTls ® "H Bdteren to confit iSSShiS
X on lf _y? ur case is curable.'»
^HEODORE C/A88U>Y says,under oath: M i w «a
quacked andruined by a doctor who advertises him
■'ä the greatest specialist that Philadelphia has.
and afterwards had to consult DR fi e TUffei'
»8 NORTH FUCRfHST.RS'oS'efrUV^f-.'
delphla. Vt hen I went to Mm I
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SUCCESSOR TO TBS LATE
GEO. W. WILSON
DEALER IN
Fine Furniture!
Sachas Parlor and Bed Room Snlts, Table#
Looking Glasses and everything In
the Furniture Line.
Upholstering and Repairing
A SPECIALTY.
Furnishing Undertaker,
EMBALMING. OR lr DESIRED
PUT IN ICE.
Having had an experience of ten years In
the business with my lather, I feel lnlly com
petent to continue the business in all Its
branches at tbe old stand and solicit tbe .
patronage which was so generously bestow
ed upon the late George W. Wilson.
Telegraph Messages promptly attended to
WM. J. WH.80N,
Furnishing Undertaker, Corner Broad and
Sts., Just below Citlxens' Bank,
Middletown. Delaware
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WAUKKBMA, WlSeONBIN.
MHimn Miiiitmii
No More Cockroaches
N o More Bed Bugs
Dead Stuck
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BUGS ARE STUCK ON IT
This useful article ia a bright red Hq uid of
a pungent, healthful odor; on drying, a sil
very white insect powder is precipitated
It will positively kill every insect, such as
Beit Bugs, Roaches, Ants, Moths. Mosquitoes
Blnc-t Beetles, In tact every conceivable kl.r*
of\erniin, which inlest human habitation
Dealers are antorlzed t < retund mone^fl
not tound as represented,
It is a splendid disinfectant.
FOR SALE BY
W. L. STUART,
Middletown, Del.
Wanted on First Mortgage 1
$ 3500 , $ 4000 , $ 2000 , $ 5000 ,
Th«8e are ali first-class Henson good farm«
Kk t W l!' an 1 ln New Cast*« County* *>«*•
. e m^ ve loaning from Two .Hundred
to Three Hundred Thousand DollaraTwrSS -
last twenty-five years, without one fore
closure which must warrant the safe man
ner we invest. ^
Several Fine Farms For Sale
_ Within one to tourmtles ot town.
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