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PRICE THREE CENTS
MIDDLETOWN, DELAWARE, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 22, 1905.
YOL. XXXVIII. NO.-Ki
Badly Cut Prices
DeVALINOER'S CASH STORE
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TOWNSEND, DELAWARE.
GRANULATED SUGAR. 5c
50
5c CAN
12c LB
BEST CREAM CORN
ARBUCKLES COFFEE,
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We quote you a few prices below in our different departments that will
convince you we are King of Low Prices, and will save you at least
20 per cent, on your Dollar. " Money Saved is Money Made.
House Furnishings Shoe Department
DRY GOODS.
LADIES' WEAR.
Ladies'10c Under Vests ... 5c
.... 10c
.... 15c
.... 20c
.... 25c
Unbleached Muslin.
This is good 6c value.
3c yard
A'good heavy China mat
ting
Worth $6 at other stores.
15c
12 I-2c yard. $4.00 roll
20c
25c
50c
5c yard
Bleached M uslin.,...
This is full 36 in. wide,
and a great bargain.
25c
50c Drawers
Japanese mattings.$7.50 roll
* Worth §10.00'. . All the
newest designs in carpet
effects.
Ladies' 50c, 75c and §1.00
Corsets.*.
These are great bargains
while they last.
10c yard
Minerva Perçais
These goods were never
sold for less than 15c.
We have abou t 30 pieces
and can give you a good
selection.
50c
v,
A full line of Ladies' Lisle
Thread drop stitch hose
in black and tan, from 15c to 50c
A good heavy Ingrain car
Best Merrimac Calicos.. ,5c yard
Light, Dark, Blue and
Brown.
20c yd
pet
Pull 36-inch wide and
cheap at.
30c yd
A hig barg ain in Ladies'
Ready-made Waists.
Having bought sales
mens samples of a large
jobbing house, we will
put them on sale at ....
while they last. Come
early and secure some
rare bargains in this lot.
Plain Cha m bray Ging -
hams.
This is a great bargain
as they never sold be
fore for less than 10c.
Our Shoe Department is run
ning over with all the latest and
newest things in the shoe world.
.6c yard
The latest thing, Japanese
rugs.
$1.00
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Men's work shoes.
80c, $1.00, $1.25
98c
Best Hamilton Cash
meres.
in all the latest plaids,
blues, blacks ami
browns.
Window shades. IOc to 25c
These are good values at
more money.
12 I-2c yd
Men's Patent Colt shoes.. $2.50
Men's Tan Oxfords. $1.25, $1.50, $2
Gents' Furnishings
Best Cotton Towel
Crash
Pull 10 quart agate dish
pan ... ..
Men's fine dress shoes in
Black and Tan.
4c and 5c yd
25c
Men's Dress Shirts .
These are the regular 50c
kind.
25c
$1.25, $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3
. 10c
Fine Turkish Towels
Full 6-quart agate stew pan. 30c
Boys Patent Colt shoes. $1.50, $2
These are bargains and
will not crack.
All the newest things in Lawns,
Cheviots, Indian Linens, Mer
cerized Oxfords; in fact, every
thing found in a first-class dry
goods department.
Men's Work Shirts.. 25c were 50c
Agate wash basin
10c
Children's shoes. 60c up
Men's Overalls_30c, 45c, 50c, 75c
Copper bottom vjash boil
50c, 60c, 70c and 80c
Clothing Department.
Baby shoes
25c up
Men's Bow Ties
Regular 25c kind.
5c
ers
Ladies'Oxfords in the new
est shapes, in Black,
Patent Colt and Tan $1.25, $2.50
Young Men's Spring
Suits.
These Suits are great
bargains at the above
prices.
$5.50, $7.50 and $10.00
Full size cotton top mat
tresses
Children's Ribbon ties
3c
. $2.00 up
Men's straw hats
10c up
Have you seen the new
shoe for ladies, the "G!o~
ris, "advertised in all the
leading Journals. We
have it at.
Guaranteed as good as any
§3 00 shoe on the market.
Bedsteads, chairs, tables, rock
ers, rugs, lamps, pots, kettles, in
fact everything to brighten the
home after Spring housecleaning.
Men's Fine Dress Pants,
from
These are regular tailor
made goods and tit guar
anteed.
All kinds of Dress Hats, caps,
collars, cuff links, shirt sets, scarf
pins, watch gards, &c at rock
bottom prices.
$1.25 to $3.00
$2.50
OUR MEAT DEPARTMENT Is full of everything that is good to eat.
Best sugar Cured Hams, 12c lb. These are trimmed, no skin or fat.
Pic-nic Hams, 9c lb. Our own-make pure lard, 9c lb., or 8c by the tub.
Best Dry Salt Side, 10c lb., or 8Hc by the 100 lb., lots.
BRING YOUR EGGS AND CHICKENS and we will Guarantee to give you the HIGHEST
.... Market Prices for Them.
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DOLLARS SAVED ARE DOLLARS MADE.
DeVALINGER SAVES YOU DOLLARS, AT
TOWNSEND, DELAWARE.
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THE MIDDLETOWN
RESTAURANT AND SUPPLY COMPANY
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CHAS. E. JONES
Middle Room in the Opera House
First-Class Restaurant
OF
BRICK, STONE AND
FRAME BUILDINGS
Serve Steak, Ham, Eggs, Oysters, Coffee, Etc.
Confectioneries and Ice Cream
Ice Cream, wholesale and retail.
Oysters served in all styles
FRESH BREAD, ROLLS AND CAKES DAILY
PLANS and SPECIFICATIONS Furnished on Application.
Estimates Furnished on Brick, Stone, Cement
work and all lines of the building trade.
IF ABOUT TO BUILD GIVE ME A CALL.
PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
Special Attention given to all Brick Work
JOBBING
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO BANQUETS.
Phone No. 51.
The Middletown Restaurant &Supply Co.
MIDDLETOWN, DEL.
MIDDLETOWN, DEL.
CHAS. E. JONES,
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THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household
There are many ways to make money
and to make it honestly, but there is but
one wav to save it, and that is to spend
less than you make.
W. E. Curtis estimates that along the
Gulf coast there are 25,000,000,000 acres
of timber land or about 60 per cent of the
entire timber land of country.
The earth contains a quantity of salt
equal to one-seventh of its weight. The
salt is dissolved little by little, and hence
the saltness of the ocean is increasing.
It is said that the world needs a two
billion bushel wheat crop every year.
The day is far distant when wheat should
sell below a dollar per bushel in this
country.
It is reported that the government
overestimated the 1904 corn crop about
4,000,000,000 bushels. Well, Uncle Sam
had a very fair corn crop any way, and
by his improved system of marketing it
he is getting a very fair price for it.
As nearly as can be determined, more
than $200,000,000 have already been spent
in the United States for constructing ir
rigation canals and reservoirs for the dis
tribution of water and for preparing land
to receive irrigation water. Over 10,000,
000 acres are to-day being watered and
something like 15,000,000 acre% more can
be watered by the ditches already con
structed. The cost of this irrigation may
seem large, but r .-turns justify the ex
penditure. In 15 states and territories
the very existence of life depends upon
the ability to use river and Hood water
for grow ing crops. And the farmers are
not the only ones benefited. Cities like
Denver, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake,
Los Angeles, were created by and de
pendent upon iirigation. And there are
still millions of acres to be watered and
numerless cities to be developed by the
application of water to the soil of the
West.
Don't worry, but if worry you must,
keep the forehead smooth—don't wrinkle
it. Worry is called tiie American national
disease and Ainericanitis is its distinctive
The women of the orient are
name.
wiser—they never worry.
This love of the work done by the mar
riage of hand and brain can never quite
out of fashion—for we are men and
women, and our hopes and aims and final
destiny are at last one.
joys, all enjoy; where one suffers, all suf
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Where one en
1er.
Fear of poverty and hardship
stands in the way of an engaged couple
who are honestly satisfied with each other.
The passion for eacli other's society
strengthens mind and will, and such ob
stacles as lack of means and misty pros
pects instantly vanish.
Sixteen thousand babies were born in
New Y'ork in the last four months. Fig
ures compiled by the bureau of vital sta
tistics show that Fifth avenue has the low
est birth rate of any street in the city.
Less than ten births were reported in the
wealthiest section ot that thoroughfare.
never
\ S. E. MASSEY,
DEALER IN
WATCHES,
CLOCKS,
JEWELRY.
SILVERWARE.
A'ao a Large Stock of
j
Cut Glass
AND VARIOlfS ARTICLES IN
GOLD AND SILVER FOR
WEDDING AND BIRTH
DAY GIFTS.
Repairing and
Silversmithing
a Specially.
We also handle the
WATERMAN'S IDEAL
FOUNTAIN PEN.
S. E. Massey
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Middletown,
Del.
SI^"terms STRICTLY CASH
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOl
What a
Beautifully
Painted House!
This is he universal re
mark of he people when
looking a our work.
' Whj is his?
Because we give personal
a entfon o all of our work,
and special a ention o he
blending of colors. We also
have firs -class workmen
and guaran ee our work.
Give us a call and we will
explain why you should em
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0 M. MATTHEWS,
Practical Painter.
P. O. BOX, 49,
fliddletown, - Del
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
NEW FASHION HINTS
A millinery shop window is now a
curious sight; exaggerations of all kinds
and exquisite creations are so arranged
that almost startling contrasts are the re
sult. A Napoleon shape in pink gossamer
straw, with an outline of tiny rose buds
at back and front, (intended for a very
young person) is next an-immense black
lace straw, with a high crown, and two
gorgeous ostrich plumes. Then a large
sailor hat, with crown of the richest
colored silk and lace brim, has for its
neighbor a jet toque with white ostrich
plume. A green straw, trimmed with
white lilacs, is near a large shape of
Hilan straw-, the brim bent in three
curves which are filled in with large
r -ses and foliage.
Ostrich Flames
were never more important, their grace
ful undulations doing away to some ex
tent with the absurdities of hats, designed
to be conspicuous. Velvet is also a factor
in millinery, particularly in the "high
back" effects, where it is combined .with
flowers of several kinds. Large roses
are well adapted to shapes turning up at
one side, or forming the centre of a flat
crown of flowers. The position of stylish
hats is varied. Some tilt over the face,
especially the "high back" shapes, others
perch on the Pompadour roll, then, again
the large sailor is worn quite flat on the
head.
That Beautiful Accessory
the parasol, now comes with renewed
beauty and variety. Myriads of plain
silk parasols in different styles, are suit
able to the shirt-waist suits, the novelty
however is the "suit-case parasol," joint
ed in the handle, which is certainly a
great convenience. Checked parasols
with flowered silk borders are in keep
ing with the present rage for checks,
and one style of elegant plain silk parasols
have cut jet bead or steel bead handles,
some being finished with a large knob.
The Lingrie Parasols
while affording no genuine protection,
are very pretty, and range from those of
simple muslin edgel with embroidery or
eyelet work, to the hand-embroidered
one, with insertions of real Val. lace.
Tucked and embroidered linen swell the
category, and hand-painting or colored
embroidery on each gore or in a wreath
around the parasol, are usually a beauti
ful blending of delicate tints. Gathered
tucks of blue or pink chiffon, a little
more than an inch apart, from an entire
parasol, are remarkable for its softness
and beauty.
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This handsome street costume, the
illustration of which is supplied by The
Demorest Fashion Co., is of brown shot
mohair of a beautiful lustrous quality,
witli collar and cuffs of cream-white
suede cloth, edged with brown mohair
braid. The belt is of braid and the girdle
of soft, niessaline taffeta in chameleon
effect. The skirt is of the popular nine
gored type, with the side plaits arranged
over eacli seam, and down the centre of
eacli gore.
Carpets may be kept cleaner by wiping
them with a damp cloth, than by a bi
weekly "digging" with a broom besides
its being easier in tiie end titan moving
out the furniture for sweping. After
dusting the room, set a pail of warm
water with a little ammonia in it, on a
newspaper and put-a dust-pan beside it.
Linen Gowns and Snits
far from showing the decline of favor
prophesied on account of the longevity of
its fashionable reign, linen is to be tit«
craze in gowns, waists, suits coats and
embroideries. Tiie gowns are of irresis
tible charm in their latest developeinent.
Embroidery in heavy hand work, open
eyelet work, Irish crochet or linen laces
are used freely for their embellishment,
and they are often as costly as they are
beautiful. Linen etamine is one of the
latest varieties in shirt-waist suit style.
Seen at a recent opening was a linen suit
of the bluet-blue shade, now called "Alice
blue," witli a half-length coat open in
front and a circular skiit. Tiie edges of
the entire costume including tiie skirt
were hand-scalloped with tiie same color,
and the sleeve, fronts of skirt and front
and back of coat were embrodered in
heavy hand-work of the same shade.
Lucy Carter.
The woman who makes a paradise of a
little borne, devotes herself to lovable
children and a decent husband, w ho looks
tenderly after iter family and is beloved
for lier task, readies pretty close to tiie
angel mark. She can do all these tilings
without entirely neglecting the inside of
her head.
Squeeze out the cloth so it will not drip,
and wipe over a space. Then pick from
tiie cloth lint, dust, etc., and drop it in
the dutt pan. Repeat this till the floor is
all gone over.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
Short Pungent Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There
Don't think because a man isn't in jail
that he is honest.
Marconi says it will.be possible within
two years "• send wireless messages
around the a. til.
Too many young men look upon edu
cation as a sort of loophole through
which to escape work.
In Daytona, Fla., (lie business houses
are open only three days of the week in
the dull summer months.,
Houghton, Mich., a town of 5,000 in
habitants, has two banks and the total
deposits are $8,000,000. Each man,
woman and child is worth $600 each.
William R. Ilearst, who now owns
seven daily papers, will start three more
'tissaid. The three cities chosen for the
new papers are said to be Pittsburg, St.
Louis and Denver.
Don't-be too sensitive! Don't take
offense at everything you hear or see in
the paper that you can construe as a
thrust at you. Perhaps you were not
thought of when the remark was made
or the thought written. It will make
you miserable to always be looking for
something to get offended at. Don't let
feelings stick out too much.
Rails of the Mexican Gulf railroad are
laid on mahogany ties, and the bridges
are built of white marble. In west
Mexico is a line with ebony sleepers and
ballast of silver ore drawn from the
mines beside the track, as the engineers
constructing these railways had no other
material on hand and deemed it cheaper
to use these seeming extravagances than
to import the ordinary material.
It is astonishing how many people
appear to think that it is the business of
a newspaper to jump in and larabast
everything in sight at the request of any
modest individual who has not the nerve
to move a hen off her nest. If any
honest man has occasion to rake a brother
citizen over the coals on account of a
personal or public grievance, he can send
in a letter over his own name and if it is
not a libel, we shall let him see how it
looks in print.
According to an exchange, a Russian
timber dealer has discovered a valuable
mine of oak. It is in a river of south
Russia, in layers three or four feet deep,
scattered over one hundred and fifty
square miles, and its most striking feature
is its variety of colore supposed to be due
to the varigated soil of the river bottom.
No fewer than twenty-one shades of pink,
blue, yellow and brown have been noted,
each log having its own uniform shade.
The logs taken out have ranged from
forty to 200 feet in length and from
fifteen to twenty inches in diameter, and
it is estimated that more than 150,000
averaging seventy feet, remain.
The names of American newspapers
are a study in nomenclature. In Arkan
sas are the Buzz Saw and the Black Log;
California, the Condor, the Wasp and
the Tomahaw k; Colorado, the Rattler and
Yesterday and Today; Iowa, the Postal
Card, the Unit, the Xucieusand the Fire
band; Kentucky, the Salt River Tiger,
the Push, the Boomer; Missouri, the
Rustler, Oklahoma rejoices in the Dinner
Bell and the Plain People; South Dakota
has a Plain Talker; in West Virginia is
the Irrepressible; Missouri has the Crank
and the Entering Wedge; Wyoming reads
Bill Baiuns Budget.
If there were no duty on alcohol it
could be used for illuminating purposes,
for heating, for automobiles and for a
good many purposes for which kerosene
and gasoline are now used. Germany
makes 800,000,000 gallons of alcohol
annually for use in the arts and for
domestic purposes. Representative Mur
dock, of Kansas, says that the proper
way to fight the Standard Oil is to allow
grain alcohol to be manufactured free of
duty. In Germany they mix it with ten
per cent, of w ood alcohol, so that it can
not be used for drinking, but in this
country they even use wood alcohol as a
beverage, so that some other means will
have to be used. With cheap corn and
potato alcohol could be profitably manu
factured for use were it not for the
internal revenue regulations.
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in
a
of
to
at
be
the
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Just to be good, to keep life pure from
degrading elements, to make it constantly
helpful in little ways to those who are
touched by it, to keep one's spirit always
sweet and avoid all manner of petty
anger and irritability—that is an idea as
noble as it is difficult. To illustrate:
The breakfast was ready but the hope of
the family was not; the sister home from
boarding school called from the foot of
tue stairs: Willie, the Orient is ablaze
and our morning reflections awaits your
presence. No reply being heard the
mother takes her place and calls: Wil
liam you lazy dogskin, get up this minute
and come to breakfast." And still there
was no answer whereupon the man
stepped to the stairs and merely said
'Bill!" "Coming, Sir!" was the instant
response and in tiiree minutes a united
family sat at the tablet.
^ Pennsylvania town of 6,000 in
habitants lias just erected its first church,
though it has been in existance for 130
years. Evidently it lias bad no occasion
to pray for its mayors and alderrfian in
public.
The possession of an iron mountain in
Missouri as the only one of its kind in
the world has been the standing boast of
this country for years, yet the Missouri
"mountain" is but a hillock compared to
an iron mountain lately discovered in
Durango, Mexico. It is claimed to be
2,000 feet high, about three-quarters of a
mile in thickness at the base and is
almost solid iron. Naturally, it is tiie
dream of iron manufacturers to lease the
mountain and work it. But tiiia the
government lias refused to permit till
quite recently, when a contract was
signed between it and some New Y'ork
capitalists for the operation and develop
ment of tiie mountain on a partnership
basis. Tiie ore obtained from this moun
tain is said to yield about 87 per cent,
pure iron.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
li/HILE the carping critics carp, as the
" President is fond of saying, the ad
ministration is daily demonstrating, in a
quiet and unobstructive manner, the
benefits which this country can, and has,
and will continue to bestow on the Philip
pines, not out of pure philanthropy, of
course, but as a result of a determination
to deal fairly with "the little brown man"
and because of the long experience and
superior wisdom of the United States.
The experience which the American
colonies, the early Federation and the
infant Republic gained at high cost, the
little Filipino is profiting by now. In
time he will enjoy all the prosperity of
this country and will not have paid half
the price, no, not a tithe of that which
the sturdy American was compelled to
pay before he knew as much about gov
ernment and economies as he does now.
* *
For the first time in their history the
Philippines enjoy a staple currency, on
the metric system, and they have made
money acquiring it. Under the fatherly
guidance of the Bureau of Insular Affairs,
which directs all things Philippine, bonds
were issued to maintain the parity be
tween the Filipino coinage and gold and
the premium on these bonds hasamount
ed to from $1.18 to $2.51 cents on each
$100 of every issue. As the first two
issues were refunded, the premium was
nearly doubled so that the entire trans
action has in itself proved very profitable.
Then bonds were issued to purchase the
Friars' lauds which will now be opened
to private settlement. Bonds were issued
to raise the purchase price of these lands
and on the total issue of $7,000,000 the
premium was $7.57 on every $100. When
the lands are sold to private parties, in
small areas, the purchase price will be
segregated to pay off the bonds and it is
probable that the purchase price will con
siderably exceed the total bond issue.
The last issue of Philippine bonds, made
March 10th, amounted to $2,500,000, "was
many times oversubscribed and brought
the highest recorded premium, $9.06 on
every $100. The proceeds of this issue
will be devoted to such public improve
ments as port and harbor works, bridges,
school buildings, court houses, penal in
stitutions, etc.
V
Not only has the Philippine govern
ment been able to sell its bonds at a pre
mium, because, of course, of the credit of
the United States, and in marked con
trast with those little Republics in South
America, for instance where the money
lenders exact ruinous discounts, but now
that the money is in the Philippine treas
ury it will be expended under the super
vision of the best men this country can
afford, men whose long experience in
contracting for public improvements will
insure to the Filipinos the full value of
every dollar of public funds expended.
This affords another sharp contrast to the
usnal course followed in new and weak
Republics.
* *
During the last session Of Congress a
bill of the utmost importance to the
Philippines was enacted. Its most im
portant provision authorized the Philip
pine government to guarantee 4 per cent,
interest on bonds to be issued by com
panies which will construct railways in
the Archipelago, such bonds being limited
to the aclual amounts invested in railway
construction. When the bill authorizing
this guarantee had passed the House and
been favorably reported to the Senate, it
contained certain loop-holes by which
the Filipinos might have been swindled
unmercifully by unscrupulous railway
promoters, but just before it was placed
on passage, Senator Spooner, than whom
there is no more capable lawyer in the
country, and whose early experience as
attorney for and receiver of a great rail
road rendered him familiar witli the prac
tices of promoters, redrafted the railroad
section of the bill and put it in the form
in which it passed. Now, Secretary Taft,
a lawyer of exceptional ability, Senator
Bailey, also an able attorney, and Attor
ney General Moody and ex-Attomey
General Knox assert that no stronger
piece of railway legislation was ever
passed and that the interests of the Fili
pinos are safeguarded in every conceiv
able manner. If such a measure bad been
left to the tender menâtes of a Filipino
Senate is it likely that there would have
been a Spooner to safeguard the interests
of the people ?
* *
In one respect Congress lias perhaps
failed to do justice to tiie Philippines, as
yet. But progress lias been made and
the proper legislation will probably be
enacted next session. This is in regard
to the tariff. The Philippines deserve
free trade with the United States, sucli is
now enjoyed by Porto Rico, Hawaii, etc.
Hearings on a bill providing for admis
sion to the United States of all Philip
pine products except sugar and tobacco
ree of duty and on these a duty of 25
ier cent, have been held and the bill is
expected to pass next session, while
eventually éntire free trade will he ac
corded to the islands. Now the United
States is bound by treaty with Spain to
admit Spanish goods to the Philippines
at as low a duty as is accorded any other
country, and so a duty of about 20 per
cent, is collected on all imports into the
islands. This pledge bolds good until
1909, after which free trade will doubtless
be accorded. Meanwhile, the duty af
fords revenue to the Philippines and all
the duties collected on imports from the
Philippines, entering the United States,
is returned to the Philippine treasury, so
that the islands fare very well under the
existing arrangement.
Washington, D. C., April 15th, 1905.
A MATTER OF HEALTH
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