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rn DELAWARE LEDGER 71 NEWARK, NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DELAWARE, JUNE 9, 1888. NO 20 VOL IX. CHEAPEST CARPETS IN PHILADELPHIA, AT JOHN M. EVANS' DA.YLKIITT CARPET ROOMS, Moquettes , Wiltons ,| t)^ MARKET ST. I stylus I mu imuly *' Ingrains , Brussels . [ ^mostnopuunor cupe» b«y. 11,. With You again this time to invito you all to come see our Elegant Spring Styles. All the latest NOVELTIES to ho had in this C OUNTRY ami EUROPE in Covering for Parlor Work anil Hang ing Every kind anti grade of Purlor Huit« from $QQ to $ 1000 . and from to $500 in Chaiul>cr Mtiits. DON'! put it oil'but como SOON. 1 am still here ready to SHOW you our immense stock of goods, and sell any thing you need At lower rates than you can buy any where else. Drop in and ask for me. Polite attention buy or not. Goods packed and Shipped free Yours Truly. "XtST m O. LÀWS, WITH IVINS & BRO., 55 NORTH 2ND. STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Send for price list. Upset Prices for our Spring and Sum mer Suits to do the work of Four Months in less than Sixty Days. What! What? Inaugurating a sale already, as if it was the end of July? Yes. We put on the pressure now. No time to wait for ordinary profits or prices. No time to wait for ordinary sales. We must double them. Our big store is turned into a Bargain Room. Uncommonly good Men's All Wool Suits at $io. Uncommonly good Men's All Wool Suits at $12. Uncommonly good Men's All Wool Suits at $13.50. Uncommonly good Men's All Wool Suits at $15. Uncommonly good Men's All Wool Suits at $18. Uncommonly good Men's All Wool Suits at $20. Uncommonly good Men's All Wool Suits at $25. Uncommonly good Men's and Young Men's Trou sers: Prices, $3.50, $4, $5, $6, $ 7 . In all good for t your and our experience we never had so he money. Men's $25 Suits for $20 and $18. Still Sharper Prices Men's $20 Suits for for Small Lots of Suits $16.50. Men's $15 Cheviot Suits for $1 2. Men's $13.50 and $12 Suits for $10. and High Grade Trousers. Returned Custom Suits at considerably less than cost. The handsomest Boys' and Children's Clothing we ever manufactured. The styles original and the prices low. - We never did a taller stroke at lowering prices. We mean it to fetch trade in quick and double measure. WANAMAKER & BROWN, OAK HALL, S. E. Cor. 6th and Market Sts., Philadelphia. PICTURE FRAMES Harry Yerger, 405 Shipley St, Wilmington, Del, Has the largest PICTURE FRAME ESTABLISHMENT in Delaware, an<l does by far the largest business ; ami the only practical FRAME GILDER in the State. llis prices are the lowest and his goods the liest. SÛT Re-gilding Old Frames a specialty. • MOTHERALL'S STORE I IS THE PLACE TO GET Dress Goods and Trim min gs, etc -Of the Finest Qualities and Latest Styles. BOOTS, SHOES and SLIPPERS That will look well, fit well, and wear well, at the right prices. China and Glassware etc. Of every description in west window, call and examine it. PROVISIONS Such as Sugar, Coffee, Tea, Preserves Canned Goods of all kinds, and everthing found in a First Class Store. IST. LT_ MOTHER ALL, Proprietor. Newark, Del. Main Street, West of College, BEATON SMITH this wook, desires to call tho at.tontio* of his customers to the fact that ho is now fully equipped and prepared to furnish ICE CREAM SODA WATER, of any flavor desired, LEMONADE SODA, EGG PHOSPHATE, SODA WATER You will find that they arc equal to the best in qunlity, quantity and stylo. .AND. One 8x10 PICTURE FREE lor PHOTOGRAPHER 302 MAßEST STREET, » $ 3.00 W II niNGTON, DELAWARE Envelopes Printed cheap — this office. Ik '4. A. C. Yates & Co Best made Clothing in Phildelphia for Men and Children. ..MAAd'ii'WSftftiMW Sixth and Chestnut (Lodger Building.) WILLIAM M. PYLE. 411 MARKET STREET. Wilmington, Del. We have beon offering extraordi nary bargains in every department and buyers have not been slow in a vailing themselves of them. Wo have opined more new DRESS GOODS A line of all-wool, 36-inch goods, very fine and all the popular shades, A full line of all-wool Henriettas^ 46 inches, at $1. The genuine article. There is a goods in the market called att-wool Henriettas, less in width, and not near so fine as the genuine goodB, selling for a trifle less. You cau take your choice. 40-incli, all wool Cashmeres in all colors, 65 cents. Elegant, fine goods. A full lino of those standard Gil bert Cloths, 60 inches, 70 cents, which will make one of the most service able dresses for the money, of any goods in the market. In our Domestic Department wo are offering decided bargains. Ging hams, Cheviots, Prints, &c., at the lowest possible price. We have had an unprecedented Hosiery Department on ac count of the remarkable bargains we have been offering. Wo opened Sat urday morning some new lines ladies', gents and children's Hose at wonder fully low prices, iu some instances not over half the real value. Bargains in every Department. run on WM. M. PYLE. JJ BEE HIVE it 306 Market Street. A Biff Cut In the Price of Dress Goods. Drews CloodN lor Half. None for Three-quarters. New Cloods, Ulffht Shades. DRESS COODS. DRESS GOODS Now is your time to buy, ours to lose. Thousands of Lace Caps for the little ones, direct from the manufacturera A fearfnl big stock of Para sols and Gloria Silk Sun Um brellas to be sold at cut prices. Demorest jierfeot-fittiiig pat terns. Dress Trimmings . for the million. RUSSELL, MISSIMER M0„ Successors to R. L. Russell, 306 Market street. Wilmington, Del, A WIPE'S ECONOMY. Mr. and Mrs. Blossom were new stars ot small magnitude in the society of Warrensburg. Alexander Blossom and Minnie Blossom had been mar ried for one short year, which time seemed to them just one long sum mer's day. There are several mar ried people unlike Alexander and Minnie, for these were never happy except when they were together, and when they were together, never un happy for a moment. When Alex ander came in from business he al ways instituted a good search for the brown-haired, brown-eyed girl who was waiting for him, and when he began to despair she would start out of a certain passageway with a gay laugh, and ask him where his eyes were. Of course, under these circumstances, it was necessary for her to take a good, square look at his eyes to determine if they were the same as ever, and then occurred some of those manifestations which foolish people call foolishness, and which only stopped when the gen ial housemaid came to announce that dinner was served. Of course, the housemaid did not say, "Dinner is served ;" her proclamation ver batim was, "Come, now," but the meaning was the game. I have omitted to say that Minnie was not very tall, that she was remarkably healthy and deliciously plump. Her lips were as near bursting with full ness as cherries after a rain ; her forehead was low, and her eyebrows heavier than the ordinary, made her just so much more magnetic. There was nothing wonderful about Alex ander. You will comprehend Atex der at once when I say that he re ceived a salary of $100 a month, which he did not earn. However, he firmly believed that in some mysterious way his labor brought large returns to his employers. With $100 a month the Blossoms had to live. Fortunately, they had no rent to pay, the market pooks, under Minnie's care, figured up rea sonably, and the domestic was kind enough to demand but $15 per month. One day Alexander came home from his alleged business, looking nice and sweet, and also looking for Minnie. The latter rushed out from the unexpected place in which she always hid, caught him around the neck, asked him were his eyes were, put a rapturous kiss just below his large, handsome moustache and cried : "What do you think ?" The sagacious husband implanted a kiss and replied that he didn't know. He also demanded advice as to what it was appropriate to think. Minnie then explained that a letter had come addressed to him ; that it looked like wedding cards ; that she had—had opened it, and that it wasn't wedding cards after fine brilliancy, but of all Some men, hearing of a myster ious letter opened by a loving wife, would have experienced a feeling of vague unrest. Not so with Alexan der. He silently weighed the merits of some hasty falsehoods and in quired bravely what the letter was. "An invitation to join the War rensburg Social Club," said Minnie, "and I have been thinking of it all the afternoon." So she had, in her womanly way ; she had been think ing what dresses she could wear. "Isn't it nice?" she cried. 'Now, say we can go." "Of course we can go." The unguarded ness of this answer was essentially masculine. Women, on the contrary, always begin by re fusing, and afterward allow them selves to be argued into untiling whatever. "Then you must get a dress suit," said Mrs. Blossoms. These were, indeed, strange words. They conveyed the revolting idea that the fashionable Alexander had nothing in dress more formal than cutaways or Prince Albert. How, then, had he been married? The explanation throws light on a very dark passage in Mr. Blossom's life— his dress suit had been pawned, and, worse, the time of redemption had expired. "I can't go," he said, resigning himself to Fate with a large F. "That's it," cried Minnie, delight ed ; "I've been figuring it all up, and you can go." Here she ran into the next room and in one second returned with a sheet of legal cap bearing very illegal-looking figures. "Now look at this!" Alexander looked, and I have to record that he was not shocked. The figures and their methods were about as nearly like those of an or dained bookkeeper as Mr. Blossom's own. "We've got to be economical for two months, you see," said Minnie. "There it is, all on paper." The indisputable document ran thus : "Grocer, $60: Jane, $15; butcher, $15; coal, $8; everything else, $10; altogether, $78—$78 out of a hun dred leaves $22 — say 820— two months, $40. One of these suits don't cost more than that, does it?" she asked, confidently. "Costs 875," replied the gloomy Alexander. "llutnph !" cried Minnie. "Can't you manage ? If it were a 875 dress, $40 would be plenty." Alexander shook his head' ; "Rut the club meets early in the evening," persisted Minnie. Couldn't you get one that would do—ready made, or something?" Alexander was pained. He said he trusted she did not speak in earneät. "Dear !" cried Minnie in despair, "what can we do? We can't take hoarders and you can't be a book agent. 1 wish somebody would leave us some money. "So do I," murmured Alec, with feeling. "I know what," cried Minnie, with sudden brightness. "Don't you ask your father for money," said Mr. Blossom, sternly. 'T don't intend to." Alexander seemed to think she might have been a little more wilful on this point. But he tried to look much relieved, and issued another command that she was not to go into debt. Her assent te this was immediate. Alexander had no more to say. The next day Minnie, in pursu ance of lier idea, went by stealth to the clothing emporium of Wariens burg and demanded the price of dress suits. The answer was $75. She then asked the price of the cloth. This was a great surprise to the tailor. He affected to solve an in tricate problem, and finally coming out with a mathematical flourish of his pencil, said: "Twenty dollars." "How much for cutting out.?" "Well," said the tailor, "hem ! let me see. You wouldn't want it up here, you think? "Well, coat, vest and—about $13.50. "I should like to get the cloth and the cutting both for $30, if you could," said Minnie faintly. "Well, answered the tailor, patronizingly, "that's it; we couldn't. You can't got English goods, you know, at American prices. We have cheaper goods, but-" "I should want this," said Minnie. "Well, as the best figure on that I'll say thirty-three. We don't make anything on it, anyway." Mrs. Blossom was not deceived, but she pretended to be, and with another exertion of courage asked for a month's credit. Then she di rected the cutting to be done by Alexander's measure, already with the tailor, and the next day carried the bundle in triumph to her dress maker. That was her idea. Her dressmaker, of course, was one of that infinite number of Bewing-wo men, found only by sheer good luck who are called "jewels" by feminine gossips, and who charge two prices. They are said to be "reasonable" as distinguished from the real modiste. This particular one did not set the price ; hut she said it was a splendid plan, that she would try and make everything "satisfactory." Minnie departed in great spirits. The Blossoms' acceptance had been dnly sent, and Alexander had been informed that a dress suit would he forthcoming. He trusted to his wife implicitly, believing not that in two months she would create a wonderful novel, as ladies easily do—in other novels— but that she would pursue the more useful and perhapB more womanly plan of calling on her father. Men are so tardy in conceding to their wives other than domestic virtues. But or.e man was about to have his masculine prejudice swept away. The important night having roll ed into Warrensburg, Minnie came dancing down stairs in "something" the gifted dressmaker "had patched up out of nothing," and consequent ly bade her dependent husband to get ready. Ho went. The bundle was brought out for him to open. It was a regular tailor's box, and lo! on the collar of the coat was the glorifying name of a New York tail or. Minnie of course, had obtained the name of her father and sewed it on with her own fair hands. Alec, with a full heart, donned the suit and stood before the mirror. He cast two careful, comprehensive glances at the trim reflection, clasp ed Minnie to the new coat and ex claimed in many raptures : "You darling ? It's the regular thing I" "Are you satisfied?" asked the wife, wishing him to commit him self before she divulged the whole ori gin of the suit. "Of course !" cried Alex, warmly. Satisfied ? Why, its one of Acker man's best, thats what it is. See the way it fits. When he had raved for ten min utes Minnie confessed the history of the suit. "So you see, after all," she said at last, "we woman do know something." Mr. Blossom looked at the coat more critically, trying to find a blem ish but he could not. "Are you still satisfied ?" aBked Minnie. He had to admit that he was. "Now, how much do you suppose it cost ?" Mr. Blossom couldn't tell. "Now a tailor—" he began. "Tailor 1" cried Minnie. "You mean robber. I counted on just $40, and out of that I have this suit, and this dress of mine. You would have paid 875 for the suit alone. To morrow I shall pay up, and I warn you that every cent I have left out of $40 I shall spend on candy, every single cent. For Minnie had the woman's love of extravagance, after .h Not a gentleman at the club was better dressed than her husband. They were both in raptures. Alec, especially, when he had convinced himself that his suit did not pro claim to the world the disgraceful truth that it had. been constructed by a dressmaker. The next evening, when Mr. Blos som came home and instituted the search for Minnie, she did not leap out at him from her old hidingplaco. She was in her room and crying. "What'sthe matter?" asked Alec. She did not reply at first, and still kept her head turned from him, but when he had been wrought up to proper state of sympathy and alarm she cried a little more bitterly than before, and quite unconsciously re laxed her grasp on a piece of crump led paper. Alexander divined that this dingy scrap was the source of her trouble, and picked it up. It contained atrocious writing executr ed in red ink, and looked like the work of a dynamiter. But it was was not so brief. It began : "Mrs. Blossom to Mrs. Durden, mans Dress Suite," and after eighteen or twenty lines of trimmings, linings, buttons, extra cloth, making, Arc., culminated in "totle $39." Under this "totle" Minnie had written in trembling figures what she owed the tailor, $33, and then she had made a "totle" of her own. Ths dress suit had cost her $72. You'll hate me, she sobbed ; you'll think you've married a sim pleton." Alexander was not distinguished for a keen insight into human na ture, but with so beautiful and ap pealing a creature as Minnie in tears who would not know the proper chord ? "Simpleton!" he cried ; and mis trusting the power of words alone, he seized her by the waist, "see jump," and gleefully whisked her about the room, "so you want a compliment on your financiering? You shall have it. You have got a thing worth 875 for $72 ; made $3 by simply turning over your some what dimpled hand. Simpleton, forsooth ! You are a money grub ber. Take me to the theatre—capi tal f—and I will give the supper af terward. Eh? What do you think of that?" When the story was related to Minnie's father, he—knowing how to strike the right chord— immediately presented her with a large check as a guarantee that her first charming futile efforts at econ omy were properly appreciated.— Hartford Times. of A 'Warning. The modes of death's approach are ver ious, and statistics show conclusively that more persons die from diseases of the Throat and Lungs than any other. It is probable that everyone, without exce pteon, receives vast numbers of Tubercle Germs into the system and where these germs fall upon suitable soil they start into life and develop, at first slowly and is shown by a slight tickling sensation in the throat and if allowed to continue their ravages they extend to the lungs producing Consumption and to the head, causing Catarrh. Now all this is danger ous and if allowed to proceed will in time cause death. At tho outset vou must act with promptness ; allowing a cold to go without attention is dangerous and muy lose you your life. As soon that something is wrong with your Throat, Lungs or Nostrils, obtain a bot tle of Boschee's German Syrup. It will give you immediate relief. The House of Commons rejected Sir John Lubbock's early closing bill by 278 to 95. lel you feel Impurities Not Food Defects of the Phosfhate Baking Powders Their. Large and Un wholesome Residuum. We have already commented up on the dangerous proposition ad vanced by the phosphatic yeast or baking powder makers to daily dose the entire community irrespec tive of its physical needs or ailments with lime sulphates and phosphates impurities that are found in their powders. It seems almost incredible that any sane person should put for ward as an argument in behalf of an article of food intended for daily use the claim that it contains amongst its impurities a drug which under cer tain condititions if properly prescri bed by a physician might be useful as a medicine. Physicians will at once see'that to endorse any such theory as this is even more danger ous than to recommend to their pa tients the indiscriminate use of the various patent medicines advertised on every han as specific for all the diseases which flesh is heir to. In the recent examination of baking powders made by the Ohio State Food Commission the phos phatic baking or yeast powders were found to contain large qnanities of lime phosphates, lime sulphates, etc., which appeared as impurities. Their manufacturers have so far found it impossible to get rid of these impur ities and their probsibly account for their remarkable claim that such im purities are good for us to eat. The preposterous character of this claim is evident from the fact well-known to all physicians that the body gets with its ordinary food more lime phosphates than it can assimilate. The vital organs are tax eed, even in health, to throw this ex cess off. Pure and wholosome baking pow ders, as is well-known, are made from highly refined cream of tarter. In phosphoric baking or yeast pow ders phosphatic acid is used as a substitute for cream of tartar on ac count of its cheapness. The ingredi ents and preparation of phos phate baking powders are found in the records of the patent office at Washington. This is the formula: 500 POUNDS BURNED AND GROUND BONES are placed in 400 POUNDS SULPHURIC ACID (Oil of Vitrol) freshly diluted with 1,000 POUNDS WATER, and stir ed from time to time for three days. The paste is mixed with farinaceous material, or with freshly burned gypsum, or with sterine, and dried and pulverized * * This pulverized acid is to be used with bi-carbonate of soda in baking powders. Bones of defunct animals are gath ered from, in and about the great cities, on battle fields, and wherever else they may be found in quanities. These bones are reduced to a powder with sulphuric acid, and thes pow der is the substitute used in the cheap phosphatio baking and yeast powders in lieu of the wholesome and more expensive cream of tarter. The sulphoric acid, with lime and phosphorous of the bones, produce the sulphate and phosphate of lime found in the impurities of the phos phatic baking or yeast powders. It only takes four quarters, to get the moon full, a fact that causes envy to rankle in the breast of a great many people. A Bright scholar in a Vermont school recently stated in a composi tion that doughnuts were first made in Greese. Answer This Question Why do so many people we us, soem to prefer to suffer »ml he made miserable by Indigestion, Constipation, Dizziness, Loss of Appetite, Coming up of food, Yellow Skin, when for 75 cts., wo will sell them Shiloh's Vitalizer, guaranteed to cure them. Sold by E. T. Dilworth, Newark, Del. SHILOH'S CATARRH REMEDY. A marvelous cure for Catarrh, Diphtheria, Canker mouth, and Head Ache. With each bottle there is an ingenious nasal Injector for the more successful treat ment of these complaints without extra charge. 1'rice 50 cts. Sold by K. T. Dil worth, Newark, Del. If, with the poets, we believe That Adam sinned to be with E We're sure the sacrifice he made Eve's daughters nobly have paid, For over all the eartli since then They kindly stooped to marry men. around VC, re Shiloh's Consumption Cure. This is beyond question the most cessful Cough Medicine we have ev sold, a few doses invariably cure the worst case of Cough, Croup,* and Bron chitis, while it's wonderful success in the cure of Consumption is without a paral lel in the history of medicine. Since it's first discovery it has been sold on a guar antee, a tent which uo other medicine can stand. If you have a cough we ear nestly ask you to try it. Price 10 cts, 50 cts. and $1.00. If your Lungs are sore Chest or Back, Lame, use rihiloh's Por ous Plaster. Sold by E. T. Dilworth Newark, Del. Ml<' Humerous Briefs The man who writes a begging letter puts gall in his ink. The confidence man now refers to himself as a Fuith Curer If a young man feels that life is a blank, he should try to fill it out and have it sworn to. Harlem has a base ball club call ed "The Girls." It is doubtless refers to the Feminine. It is quite natural that a criminal should prefer an electric to a cable for his final journey. When a public man is called "Honest Jake or "Honest Tom" it is time examine his accounts. Switzerland has a town called St. Gall. It was named after the Chicago drummers' patron saint. "Golden at morning, silver at noon, and lead at night" is the old say ing about eating oranges. But there is something that is rightly named Golden, and can be taken with ben efit at any hour of the day. This is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov ery, literly worth its weight in gold to any one suffering with scrofulous affections, impurities of the blood; or diseases of the liver and lungs. It is unfailing. By druggists. It is but reasonable to suppose that the machinery in a paper mill is run by a stationary engine. The dead beat who wants to bor rows a dollar is broke, and the fel low who lends it to him is cracked. This is the seasom of the year when a man uses his thumb-nail for a screwdriver, but he tries it only once. The painter of still life should naturaly look for his best subject among the moon shiners of the South. The controversy is still going on as to the authorship of Shakespeare. W^'re betting on Shakespear's fa ther. Beautiful women, from whence came they bloom, Thy beaming eye, thy features fair? What kindly hand on the was laid— Endowing thee with beauty rare? " 'Twas not ever thus," the dame replied, ''Once pale this face, these features bold, The 'Favorite Prescription' of Dr. Pierce Wrought the wonderous change which you behold." White onyx set with diamonds is much in favor for sleeve links late iy A color tube of gold, having a jeweled cap, is an odd design in scent bottles, A handsome design on a silver bonbonnière is a yacht of gold in full sail. A small crown of seed pearls and turquoises is a pleasing design in scarf pins. A list of new open-work dress materials is endless and seems to re ceive accessions every day. The popular width for sash rib bon is eleven inches, though the ex treme width is 14 inches. One of the prettiest bonnet pins is in the form of a single gold lily leaf, closely set with half pearls. A bar of curiously twisted silver, with floral designs in enamel, makes a graceful garter clasp. Miniature coal scuttles and buck les of silver arc among the latest pendants offered for queen chains. A handsome three pronged comb has a top of four interlaced gold squares in variegated Roman dull and bright gold. An expensive lace pin is a gold tambourine, on which the bells represented by alternate diamonds and sapphires. nre yjj-coas oil for neuralgia. Tire German Scholar, Dr. RICHARD OBERLÄNDER, 1 LEIPZIG, Germany, Secre tary Ei< noloylcal Museum, F- S. U. G. A., M. G. S., Author end Savant, wrote uutogrupk, here follows: & vet his rloil St. Ju* oit» OU ami i'il of Neu itlroly |ll||| - GURES^ UHEUMATISM and LUMBAGO. -SOLD BY _ Drey,,i.l, ,i,„l J)mlm Everywhere. I ME CHARLES A. VOGELER CO., BALTIMORE, MD.