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\ :39E -a PRICE THREE CENTS MI DDLETOWN, DELAWARE, SATURDAY AIORISTESTGr, MAY 2, 1908. WOL. 41. NO. 18 What Stove for Summer? H Y □ □ - Nothing adds to kitchen [£lX^rT~-.f f® convenience in summer weather m like a New Perfection Wick IJ \ Blue Flame Oil Cook-Stove. ]) II \ I Anything that any stove can JJ u if do the "New Perfection'' will * 11 do, and do it better. Bakes, W roasts, boils, toasts; heats the wash water and the sad irons, and does it without dissipating its heat through the room to your discomfort. The NEW PERFECTION Wick Blue Flame Ofl Cook-Stove actually keeps the kitchen cool—actually makes it comfortable for you while doing the family cooking, because, unlike the coal range, its heat is directed to one point only —right under the kettle. Made in three sizes, fully warranted. If not PJ with your dealer, write our nearest agency. KasfTo lamp light that is very grateful The affords a mellow to tired eyes—a perfect student or family lamp. 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For examples, chloride of potash loz enges if accidentally brought into contact with au unlighted phosphorous match are dangerous. Bicarbonate of potash if mixed with subnitrate of bismuth, the latter a remedy fur indigestion, will ex plode. Iodide of nitrogen is highly explosive and is ofteu combined with other drugs. Its use by those igorant of its danger is a menace. Sal volatile and chloral hydrate are, under certain conditions, as dangerous as dynamite. Tincture of iron aud dilute aqua regia when mixed, as they often are in medi cine, throw off a highly explosive gas, which has frequently shattered the bottle in which the mixture was kept. One often finds bottles of medicine in which the ccrk has not been tightly pushed minus the latter or has had a cork pop out of a bottle while held in one's hands without any attempt to re move it on the part of the holder. This always shows that gas is forcing the cork out. Danger in combs. Every now aud the one reads of cellu loid articles, from fancy hair coiffure combs down, catchiDg fire and serious burns or accidents resulting. 1 It would seem that everyone should by this time know' that celluloid contains in its composition gun cotton and also cam phor, both highly inflammable. No woman wearing celluloid combs or hair ornaments should place her head near an uncovered gas jet or other unprotected light, as celluloid catches fire so quickly aud burns so rapidly that it would hardly be possible to avoid serious burns. is Cures Blood, Skin Diseasse, Cancer Greatest Blood Purifier Free If your blood is impure, thin, diseased hot or full of humor, if you have blood poison, cancer, carbuncles, eating sores, scrofula, eczema, itching, risings and bumps, scabby, pimply skin, bone pains, catarrh, rheumatism or any blood or skin disease, take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B B. ). Soon all sores heal, aches and pains stop aud the blood is made pure and rich Druggists or by express $1 per large bot tle. Sample free by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. B. B. B. is especially advised for chronic, deep-seated cases, as it cures after all else fails. Think no Evil Remember that charity thinketh no evil, much less repeats it. These are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart—never believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it is true; never tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it. When ice is broken in small pieces, ready for use in the sick room, it melts rapidly. Keep a large piece in a basin or pail and cover with several thickness of newspaper and break off the pieces as needed. They can be broken any size desired and with little noise, simply by sticking the point of a darning needle in to the ice and tapping it with a thimble. Closely woven wool goods, like silk, should be loosely rolled around a paste board tube and covered with thin paper when laid away for a time. This will avoid the deep creaseB sure to accumulate from the weight of the folds. Silk will crack if left long in folds. YARD G.E.HUKILL Middletown, Del. White Pine, Yellow Pine, Hemlock and Cypress. All kinds Building Lumber, Shingles, Lath and Pickets. Mill Work of all kinds in stock and to order. Build ing and Agricul tural Lime- Woven Wire Fence, Wover is Picket Fence, Barb Wire and Plain Wire Begt vein» of HARD AND SOFT COAL is Birred Plymouth Rock Settings Secure your EGGS of the standard va riety now for FALL LAYERS. Da not buy eggs from a distance, as you always run risk. Settings only 75 CTS: Write to Miss Margaret Oehrlein, L. B. 41, Elkton, Md. FARM NEWS AND VIEWS to of to as I q-| )e Agricultural Department estimated 962,429,000bnshels of corn was in farmers' j 1(|n( j 9 March 1, against 1,293.000,000 bushels on band March 1,1007, and 882, 707.000 bushels the average of the past ten years. The Government estimates that on March 1, 1902, the oats remaining in farmers' hands was 267,476,000 bushels t against 348,461,000 bushels at same time last year, and 311,625,000 the average of the past ten years. The Government also estimates that on March 1, 1908, 148,721,000 bushels of wheat remained in hands, against 206, 644.000 bushels on hand the same date last year, and 155,263,000 bushels the ten year average on same date. It is said that at this time 20,000 dairy cows are being milked daily by milking machines. As the Government reports 21.194.000 milch cows in the country the milking machine does not make very ra pid progress. If alfalfa is sown with a nurse crop, it is best not to sow too much grain, and if it is the intention to remove the crop before it matures, it is better to seed with oats. The grape is the only fruit that protests against late pruning by "bleeding.''Rasp berries, blackberries, gooseberries aud currants can be pruned after they are in full leaf, or even in bloom, without ap parent hurt. Experiments have proved that manure made from animals fed on clover bay is worth double that made from animals fed on timothy hay. A Pennsylvania dairyman reports that he kept a record of 80 calves, which con sumed 12,000 quarts of milk, for which he received $481, or over four cents a quart, and the calvesdid the milking. He estimates that it takes 146 quarts of milk to make a calf four weeks old, which will weigh 160 pounds if they have Hol stein blood. When a calf does not seem to thrive it is recommended to give it a half-pint of wheat brand, with a pinch of salt, scalded with a teacupful of hot water. Give this with the usual amount of milk and always keep some corn, oats and hay with pure water handy. An exclusive diet of corn will prevent hens from laying, so will an exclusive diet of anything else. Ground millet seed has a nutritive ratio of 1-5, 4—1 of albumoids and 5.4 of car bydrates. This is a good fattening ratio. Half millet and half corn, ground fine, will make a more suitable propor tion than corn alone. This is especial ly good for hogs, the pork having a bet ter proportion of lean, and the pigs will be healthy while fattening. Ground millet is a very appropriate food for young pigs, giving them a large and more muscular frame. When the hog seems to be losing the use of its limbs, feed less corn and more bran and oats chop. If the trouble is very bad, give 8 or 10 drops of nux vomica in the feed twice a day. Keep the bowels open by feeding an abundance of green feed. A mixture of equal part of licorice and ginger in the hog feed two or three times each day is recommended for the pig that coughs. A lump of coal tar placed well down the throat while the pig is held np on its feet is also good. It is said that if sulphur is spriukled on the barn floor and through the corn as gathered there will not be a rat or mouse to bother. A pound of sulphur will be sufficient to preserve a large barn of corn. Colic in our horses, says an English veterinarian, is generally the result of careless or improper feeding. The stomach of the horse is small aud the di gestion is limited, and if the horse is overfed or is allowed to gulp down a big feed colic is the result. Also if musty, sour feed is used or if fresh cut grass wet with dew or rain is hastily eaten in large quantities colic is often the result. The celery growers of Kalamazoo, Midi., last year grew 800,000 boxes of celery', each containing six dozen stalks. The value of this crop is $800,000—$1 a box. of a It is claimed that frequent applications of hot water to the roots of peach trees keep the roots free from grubs. The bark just under the ground will be a greenish yellow. The soil should be dug away from the trunks and loose soil and leaveB raked up against them. These can be removed with the hands when the hot water stimulates the flow of sap and the trees bear better. The potato bug, or Colorado beetle, kasses the winter in the mature form. As soon as the potatoes are up theee bugs be gin feeding and laying eggs on the young leaves. The young that hatch from these eggs, as well as the next brood, are the that do the damage. Therefore, it ones is necessary that treatment should be be gun as soon as the young beetles appear on the vines. Dust the plants while the dew is on, with a mixture made of one pound Paris green to 10 pounds air-slaked lime or cheap flour. Another good method is to spray the plants with a composition of two ounces of Paris green in 50 gallons of Bordeaux mixture,spray ing the vines two or three times. For this purpose the Bordeaux mixture should be made out of three pounds of bluestone and five pounds of lime to 50 gallons of water. This mixture not only kill the beetle, but also prevent the early blight from destroying the leaves and stems of the vines. will When the first appearance of the worm is made the plants should he dnsted with the Paris green and flour mixture, de scribed above. When the heads are form ing use one pound of pyrethum pow der to four pounds of flour to dust the After plants. This is harmless to man. the head begins forming Paris green should not be used. Those who are afraid to use Paris green are generally successful by beginning early to ose the pyrethum powder and spraying often. A. WASHINGTON LETTER a in to on it of to is it as ly is an Washington, D. C., April 25th, 1908. IN spite of the vigorous protests of the * American Newspaper Publishers' As sociation against the inaction of the House of legislation looking to the free listing of wood pulp and print paper, no such action will be taken at this session of Congress. Speaker Cannon is master of the situation and has successfully obstructed all legisla tion on this subject by the appointment of a special committee, "to make a full in vestigation touching the alleged combina tion of the manufactures of print paper. V Although President Roosevelt failed to realize his heart's desire in obtaining four battleships, he won a victory in the Sen ate this week when Senator Hale an nounced a committee amendment making an appropriation immediately available, of $7,000,000 for the construction of two battleships authorized by the bill. The fight for this concession was led hy Sena tor Lodge who clearly intimated to the Senate leaders that the President would veto a bill which merely authorized two ships and made no appropriation therefor. While the bill authorizes two ships at a cost of $6,000,000 each, it is estimated that not more than the $7,000,000 available can be utilized before the first of next year. If this appropriation has been ex hausted by that time an additional sum can and will be made available. * * * There is no little resentment in the Senate over the action of the Hoase in failing to make the necessary appropria tion of funds for the construction of the two battleships it authorized, for the torpedo boats, the new submarines and for the submarines already in process of construction, appropriations, •• >r all of which the upper house has been obliged to add. This course of the House is re garded in the Senate as a "grandstand play," enabling it to point to the increase of appropriations made by the Senate and to virtuously cry "extravagance," when, as a matter of fact the increases have been rendered actually imperative by the House itself. * * * Entire harmony prevails between the Senate steering committee and the leaders of the Hoase over the plans to be adopted for ineuring financial legislation at this session of Congress. At the proper time a motion will be made to take the Aldrich bill from the Committee on Banking and Curieticy and consider it in committee of the whole. The next motion will be to strike out all after the enacting clause and substitute the Vreeland bill, and finally an amendment creating a currency com mission will be added. In this form the measure will be sent back to the Senate and from there it will go to conference. Representative Yreeland has completed practically his poll of the House to ascer tain the sentiment toward his financial bill, and says he has found enough favor ing the measure to pass it. The expecta tion is that the commission provided for will consist of five members from each house. President Roosevelt has signed the em ployers' liability bill which makes rail roads or other common carriers, while en gaged in interstate commerce, liable for the injury or death of an employee, if the injury or death results iu whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents or employees of such carriers or by reason of any defect or insufficiency in equipment. This provision is made ap plicable also to carriers in the territories, the District of Columbia, the Canal Zone and other possessions of the United Slates. — v There is no doubt that a quarantine will be established by the Cuban govern ment against Venezuela, where the bu bonic plague is said to be raging, though President Castro denies it is the plague and calls it some kind of a fever. Other reports, however, state that it is the dreaded Asiatic malady. Governor Ma goon, of Cuba, has called the Secretary of War asking for authority to establish a quarantine against Venezuelan cattle, and perhaps other foi ms of exports from this republic. After a conference with Secre tary Root, Secretary Taft cabled Gov. Magoon to deal with the situation as his judgment dictates and the exigencies of the case require aud tiiis signifies that au embargo will be placed against importa tions from Venezuela as long as the plague continues. Minister Russell has been re called and diplomatic relations with Vene zuela have been discontinued. V Iu spite of ail the evidence produced in the Brownsville affair before the investi gating committee, many Senators still re fuse to be convinced that the negro sol diers did the shooting on that memorable night. However a compromise has been suggested by which justice would be sub served and the feelings-saved of all con cerned. The compromisers would consti tute Lieut. Generals Chaffee, Young aud Corbin, all retired, a board to determine the innocence or guilt of the negro sol diers of the 25th Infantry applying for re instatement id the army. It is hoped in politics) circles that thia may prove the solution of this very wretched problem. THE KING BEVEALED ' A weary, dusty traveler came once to the door of a widow's cottage in Scotland, askiDg for food and shelter. It was a perilous time and the woman knew not whether to count the stranger a soldier in need or a treacherous spy who sought her ruin; but when, by a few careful ques tions, he was conviced that he could trust her, be threw aside his cloak, and there shone upon his breast the badge of royalty. Then tbe widow knew that it was ber exiled king, tbe noble Bruce, re turned once mote to claim his rightful sovereignty. Her heart was opened wide and she gave him all she bad, of food and arms and her two noble boys to bear him company bs he renewed his struggle for the throne. So to the few most trusted ones our King, who comes in Hie humil ity. reveals His royalty and they have the high privilege not only to see His glory, but to help Him to win His own. A. USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW When window ehades become faded at bottom take off roller, hem top like bot tom on machine with long stitches, tack bottom to roller. To mend broken china, tie parts to gether tightly, boil in new milk six hours; will wash like new if left to dry a few days before using. Baked potatoes will cook mealy if ends are uipped off before placing in oven. To brighten gilt frames, take sufficient flour of sulphur to give a golden tinge to about one and one-half pints of water. In this boil four old onions—strain off liquid. When cool, go over frames with a soft brush; when dry frames will look Jike new. Mix stove polish with turpentine in stead of water; will last much longer aud prevent rust. To remove fresh paint from floors, cover with vinegar, wipe up with clean cloth. Repeat if necessary. To help keep preserves, wrap each glass jar in paper. To prevent a lamp smoking, soak wick in vinegar and dry before using. A little bluing added to whitewash will still further whiten it. Moths will not enter woolen garments wrapped in newspaper. To drive away ants, mix salt, pepper, sugar and borax together and ecatter on shelf. Set a saucer of cold water in oven to keep bread from buroing. Keep an apple in the cake box to keep cake moist. An old-fashioned home-made furniture polish consists of one-third spirits of tur pentine and two-thirds sweet oil. Ap ply with old flannel, and rub dry with another cloth. This removes all surface marks from polished furniture, and with repeated rubbings will give a high polish to unvarnished hard wood. To prepare a mustard plaster in baste, trim the crust from a thin slice of white bread, then sprinkle it thickly with ground mustard, spread a very thin cloth over the mustard, then dampen with vinegar or water. To clean cream nun's veiling: Make flour hot in the oven, spread the material on a clean cloth on a firm table, rub the hot flour into the stuff with a piece of clean flannel. Shake out the dirty flour, and apply fresh, till the surface is clean. Use black knittiug silk for darning stockings aud you will be pleased with the work, for the needle runs smoothly under and over the stitches, with the re sult that the patch is very neat, much more so than wheu darning cotton is used. To smooth rusted flatirons take a rough piece of toweling and cover it with salt,on which rub the heated iron; then rubover it a piece of beeswax, and then on a piece of clean rough cloth. The irons will come up excellent. A rough iron will make sad work of your clothes. Be sure to rince your clothes well, or they will yellow, even with the most perfect irons and careful manipulation. There are two very good ways of keep ing carpets looking nice. One is to go over them once a week with a broom dip ped in hot water, to which a little turpen tine has been added. Another, and per haps better way, is to sprinkle the car pet with moist tea leaves and salt. Then sweep with short strokes with the nap of the carpet. The leaves gather the dust, while the salt brightens the colors and helps drive away moths. A good home-made cement for broken crockery is mislacked lime or plaster of paris mixed w ith the white of an egg to the consistency of cream. A cement that is practically water proof is made by dis solving ordinary white glue in warm milk. For whitening boards or cleaning mar ble take half a pound each of soda, pow dered chalk and powdered pumice stone, stir together in a small quantity of water and then add half a pound of soft soap. Mix together into a paste and use as soap with a scrubbing brush. Honey should be kept in the dark or it will granulate. The carpet-sweeper will be found more effectual if pushed in the same direction as the pile of the carpet, not against it. In dampening clothes use a clean whisk broom. This will dampen the clothes evenly all over and make the week ly ironing a much easier task. Teakettles would last longer if, after use, they were turned upside down to drain dry. It is the little drop of water left at the bottom which starts the rust that ends in a leak. When oilcloth has been laid for a few months and is beginning to lose its shiny surface it can be renewed and made to last twice as long. Melt a little ordinary glue in a pint of water, letting it stand on the top of the oven until it is dissolved. Wash the oilcloth thoroughly and let it dry. Then at night, when no one will walk on it, go over the entire surface care fully with a flannel dipped into the glue water. Choose a dry day for doing it, and by morning you will have a fine gloss. A hair brush can be easily and quickly washed^as nothing is needed but some warm water and a small piece of soda. Dissolve the soda in the water and then dab the bristle part ef the hair brush into the water three or four times, or until it is clean. Rinse the briish well in cold water and wipe it as dry as possible. Then set it to finish drying in a window where the wind will blow in on it if possible. A piece of fine sponge, a soft clotb.and an old silk handkerchief, all perfectly clean, are required to clean a looking glase. First sponge the glass with a little wine or gin and water to remove all spots and then dost the glass over with powder blue tied in muslin. Rub it lightly and quickly off and polish with the silk hand kerchief. the As of in to a a It of to in a a it FARMERS TALK OF TOMATO GROWING Best Methods of Culture Explained at Sussex Grange Meeting ''Growing Tomatoes," the topic of the day at the Grange, April eighteenth, was taken np by the leader, R. C. Begley. This is a very important crop to Delaware farmers as nearly all of them grow toma toes. It is M-. Begley's opinion that this crop should average a net profit of $50 per acre. It is important to have good seed. He has tried several varieties and prefers Burpee's Matchless. They bang on the vines a long time without rotting aud are more free from blight than many sorts. He plants the seed in rich ground, using chicken manure to fertilize the seed bed. He marks out a furrow five inches wide with a hoe, scatters the seed thin and covers one-half inch with earth. When the seed begins to come up he loosens the ground with a hand rake. The plants are stronger than when the seed is sowed thick. The plants are liable to an early attack of the flea bug and for this he sprays with bordeaux mixture aud arsenate of lead, practically keeping them covered with the bordeaux and spraying thoroughly about two hours before the plants are set in the field. With Mr. Begley early set plants do best. Those put out the last of May and first of June give better returns than later set plants. For the tomato field he prefers a clover sod, covered with stable manure, plowed and kept well worked up a month before needed. For phosphates he uses 800 pounds of fish, 800 pounds of rock and 400 pounds of Muriate of Potash, applying 800 pounds per acre. The field should be cultivated from the time the plants are set until they are too large. Shallow cultivation when the weather is dry. He used five loads of manure last year to the acre and got a fraction over nine tons of tomatoes per acre. J. J. Rosa likes best a clover sod ma nured and plowed in the fall. In the spring manure and plow again and put on 800 pounds of fertilizer. Charles Sackett usually sets his plants late on the ground where he cuts scarlet clover-bay. When he prepares the ground and sets the plants early he gets the best yield. John Short grew eleven and one-half tons per acre in 1907. He used clover and timothy sod, manured in the fall and plowed early in the spring keeping it well worked up until time to set plants. Marked the ground both ways with a three-foot ten-inch marker. Sowed phos phate, 400 pounds per acre, down the row aud covered with a cultivator. He grew the Success and liked them. S. Armour plants seed in well manured ground, in narrow row, so as to get stocky plants. A. C. Howe inquired the best way to apply coarse manure and was advised to use it broadcast and plow under and use phosphate in the row. Charles Barker thinks Mr. Begley's system a good one and his method of keeping young plants covered with bor deaux excellent. Mr. Barker is trying this year Delaware Beauty and Success. It has always been a question with Mr. Barker about fertilizing in the hill. When he does it, be regrets it, and when be does not, be wishes he bad. Mr. Sackett has tried broadcasting and fertilizing in the hill. When broadcast ing only, thought the fruit ripened slowly. His plan is to broadcast 400 pounds of phosphate and put 300 pounds in the hill per acre. H. R. Lenex suggested that phosphate be put on top and then cultivated in when the plants were cultivated. When nitrate of soda goes down and could be used this way, other phosphates, espec ially fish, give better results if put in the furrow .—Milford Chronicle. Visions and Ideals Carrying with us a sense of divine com panionship, conscious of our heritage from generations past, may we never stand bewildered between our visions and opr tasks, but fiud iu them and in every opportunity for humau help the heavenly call to us to be artists in divine things, making real in human lives and institu tions our visions and our ideals. in The Transcript, $1.00 per year. Where the finest biscuit, cake, hot-breads, erupts or puddings are required 'fyoyal is indispensable. I. Ticw BaJcinç Powder Absolutely Pure Not only for rich or fine food or for special times or service. Royal is equally valuable in the preparation of plain, substantial, ry-day foods, for all occa ft makes the food more ta£y, nutritious and wholesome. I ► ] eve sions. - r : -T OHLY TWO BIG BATTLESHIPS Washington, April 27th.—By a decisive vote of 50 to 23 the Senate to-day defeated President Roosevelt's program for fonr 20,000 ton battleships and affirmed the action of the naval committee in provid ing for the construction of only two pow erful armor clads. To those who have watched the grees of the contest the action of the Senate was no surprise, except in that the vote of the advocates of the bill not being as large as was thought for, and fell four short of the conservative esti mate. Recent events have demoustrated that Mr. Roosevelt was not as popular as formerly with some of his most loyal sup porters, and this may have had some ef fect upon the vote. The defeat of the measure • 'Tuévitâbitf Li spite ot the President's special message advocating tl e four ships. Hints from the White House of vetoes and unofficial efforts of the President to gain all his ideas made but a poor showing in the minority, less than one-third of the total vote being cast. Of the 50 Senators who voted against the four battleships 32 were Republicans and 18 were Democrats. at pro* it a BEADY FOB GENEBAL CONFERENCE The quadrennial session of the General Conference of the Methodist Epis copal Church, which opens in Balti more on Wednesday, May 9, will be come one of the most important in the history of the denomination. It will have especial historical importance because it will mark the centennial of the organization of the General Conference at "Light Street Parsonage," and will recall that the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in Baltimore, at the Lovely Lane Meeting House, in 1874. There will be more than 800 delegates, some of whom will bring their wives and children, so that the entertainment com mittee is calculating on the coming of about 2,000 from all parts of the world. In addition 2,000 Methodist visitors are expected from the surrounding cities. The western and New England states will also be largely represented. PENSION AGENCIES TO BE CONTINUED The various pension agencies of the country will not be abolished this year, as proposed in the pension appropiation bill passed bv the House, at Washington. The Senate Committee on perreious lias voted unanimously to retain these sep erate agencies, rather than to concentrate the payment of pension vouchers in the Washington office. They also agreed to stick to this determination when the bill goes to conference so that the House will have to recede on this point just as it did last year. Provision was also made to supply the $12,000,000 necessary to carry into effect the "widows pension bill," which lias been signed by the president. This brings the total which will be car ried by the bill up to the enormous sum of $162,000,000. OLD DBAWYEBS IS 200 YEARS OLD Old Drawyers' Presbyterian Church, near Odessa, is arranging to celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of the found ing of the congregation which is said to be the oldest Presbyterian congregation The anniversary day is in America. June 7th. It is the intention of the committee having the anniversary exercises in charge to have distinguished Presbyterians, as well as State officials take part in this year's celebration at the old church. Meetings are held in the church annually. George Janvier, deputy clerk, of the peace, is secretary of the congregation. DIV0BCE MAKES AMERICANS HAPPY Chicago, April 27th.—"Divorceappears to be the institution that makes you Americans the happiest people on earth. More divorces are granted here than in Three times as any other country. divorces are grauted in Chicago as many in any other city. Therefore Chicago is the happiest city in the world." This is the conclusion at which Mrs. Eleanor Glynn, the English woman who wrote "Three Weeks," arrived at after a stay of 24 hours in Chicago. She leaves for the West to-night.