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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-09-06
POETRY.
TO HERBERT SPENCER.
BY HERBERT ALLEN

BY HERBERT ALLEN. n
Deepest and mightiest of our later seers,
Spencer, whose piercing glance deserted afa,
Down fathomless abysses OF dead years
The formless waste drift into sea or star,
And through waste wilds of elemental strife
Tracked out the first faint steps OF yet uncon-
scious life;
Thy hand has led US through the painless maze,
Chaotic sights and sounds that throng our
brain,
Traced every strand along its tangled ways;
And woven anew the many colored skein;
Bound fact to fact in unrelenting laws,
And shown through minds and worlds the
unity of cause.
Ere thou hadst red the universal plan,
Our life was unto us thing alone;
On this side Nature stood, on that side man,
lrreconcilable, as twain, not one:
Thy voice first told us man was Natures child,
And in one common law proclaimed them rec
onciled.
No partial system could suffice for thee,
Whose eye has scanned the boundless realms
OF space;
Gazed. through the 9ons, Oh the fiery sea,
And caught faint glimpses Of that awful face,
Which, clad with earth, and heaven, and souls
of men,
Wells its mysterious shape forever from our
ken!
As tiny builders in some coral shoal,
Raising the future mountain to the sky,
Build each his cell, unconscious of the whole,
Live each his little life, and work and die;
Even SO the lesser toilers in thy field
Build euch the little pile his narrower range
can yield.
But, like skillful architect, thy mind
Works up the rock those insect reasons
With conscious plan and purpose clear defined
In arch and column, toward single aim,
Till joining part to part, thy wider soul
Piles up stately fame, grand, consistent
whole.
Not without honor is the prophets name,
Save with his country and his kin in time
But after-years shall noise abroad thy fame
Above all other fame in prose or rhyme;
For praise is his who builds for his own age,
But he who builds for time must look to time
for wage.
Yet, though thy purer spirit do not need
The vulgar guerdon of a brief renown,
Some little need, at least, some little need
Our age may add to thy more lasting crown
Accept an unknown singers thanks for light
Cast on the dim abyss that abounds our little
sight
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SctENcE+
Food for Lean Women.

If any one wishes to grow fes1y. pint
of milk taken before retiring at night will
cover the scrawniest bones. Although now
a.lays we see great many leshy females, yet
there are many lean and iank ones who sigh
for the fashionable measure of plumpness,
and would be vastly improved in health
and appearance could their figure be round
ed with good solid flesh. Nothing is more
coveted by thin women than full figure,
and nothing else will so rouse the ire and
provoke the scandle of one of the "clipper
builds as the consciousness of plumpness
in a rival. In cases of fever and summer
complaint, milk is now given with excellent
results. The idea that milk is feverish has
exploded. and it is now the physician
great reliance in bringing through typhoid
patients, or those in too low state, to be
nourished by solid food. 1t is great mis-
take to scrimp the milk pitcher.
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POETRY.
"A
A SUMMER MORNING.
Ry 4 pREss,rAxBR.

By A DREsSGAKHR.
How gracefully each meadow wears
It's nice, green paletot,
With buttercups and daisies trimmed
Extremely CONNIE IL faut
Along the sky those summer clouds,
That float SO soft and cool,
Seem to the thoughtful gazer's eye
A putting of white tulle!
In many glade the eglantine
Her clustering LEAKAGE sets,
And beautifully decks herself
With tasteful, neat rosettes.
Down On the shore the waves come in,
While pale foam edges them,
And look like fiounces of blue silk
With white lace at the hem.
On foliage boughs the robin sings
In joys most sweet excess
Her scarlet jacket suiting well
Her glossy satin dress.
Oh! when among the cherries red
Each robin eats and thrills,
It pleases me to see the dears
Send in their little bills
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The Need Of Acids.

When much fat pork is eaten there will
always be demand for pickles or vinegar,
says the report of the Massachusetts Board
/ of Health. The demand for acid is genu-
inc call Of the system but there is no espe-
cial call for the strong acids, such rs raw
lemons and pickles, If one has from day TO
day the proper supply Of moderately sour
fruit. Half Of the doctors would find their
occupation gone if apples were freely used
as an article of food. Fruit has never done
US the good it might have done, because it
has been eaten 1t improper hours, between
meals, or in the evening. It has actually
been turned into foe to good digestion by
the process of picking and preserving.
The old fashioned pound for pound" pre-
serves are too sweet to serve the purpose of
acid fruit, and too rich to have the nourish-
ing effect Of juicy, sweet fruit. They are
simyly sweetmeats to be eaten with caution.
Canned fruit is excellent, but fresh frnit is
best whenever it can be obtained. The good
effect of fresh fruit is often spoiled by the
excess Of sugsr used with it,
When there is craving for sour food, for
pickles or for lemons, it is generally strong
indication that the system has real need
Of acids, and lemons or vinegar are some
and restore failing appetite. A year ago
saw a child pass through one Of these
spells. He lost his appetite, and could not
bear the sight or smell of food, until he
caught sight of dish of dried apple sauce,
and then he was possessed with desire for
some Of the juice. This seemed to refresh
him and he ate for the next meal, bread
soaked in the juice of stewed dried apples.
After that canned tomato, cooked with bread.
helped forward the cure. Before this i'll
turn, he had, for few weeks, lived almost
entirely without fruit, contrary to his usual
habit.
1t is common mistake to use fruit at the
table only in the form Of sauce at the even
ing meal, or incased in rich crusts as pie
for dinner. In the latter case the i'll effect
of the pie crust is often greater than the
good effect Of the fruit inside the pie. As
for the fruit sauce on the tea table, it is bet
ter than heavy supper of meat, but there
is some sense in the old saying that Fruit
s golden in the morning, silver at noon,
and lead at night"
Perhaps any kind Of fruit or vegetable
may be used to excess or in too large pro-
portion as compared with the rest Of the
diet Certainly acids should be used in
moderation, especially the strong kinds.
Because the juice of lemon may be An ex-
cellent cure for billiousness or fatulence or
other disease, it by no means follows that
school girls can thrive upon their daily use.
In former days. when pale and slender
maidens were in fashion, it was not very
uncommon for silly girls to try to reduce
their weight and ruddy hue by frequent sips
Of vinegar, and many feeble woman and
many an early death has been the result Of
such tampering. A variety Of vegetables
and fruit, well cooked and eaten as sppe-
tite calls for them, will satisfy the natural
demand for both sour and sweet food.
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There was . terrible row 1t the colored
Methodist church. in Pine Bluff, Ark, last
Friday night, growing ont Of . discussion
Is to the cause Of the lightning striking the
church tine party held the Lord directly
responsible for the damage. and the re-
msinder Of the brethefen defended hln
from the charge. The a4air ended N :
hnock-down.
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A German peddler sold . man prepars-
ton for the determination Of bugs.
''And how do you use it," inquired the
man, after he had bought it.
"Ketch te pug and drop into his nonf,
answered the peddler.
The duce yoa dol" exclaimed the pur-
chaser, Il could Kin it IN half that tine BY
stamping On itv'
"Vell, sid The GerDsn, ''dst is good
vsy, teo."
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CrRE rcR HAY FEvER.-An exchange
says: This disease, which affects many
people most unpleasantly. can be cured
by the following remedy: Get . saturated
solution Of sulphate Of quinine in water,
in the proportion Of one pint Of quinine "a
seven hundred and fnrty Of water, to be
well shaken and applied to the nostrils,
while lying down, with . camels hair brush,
until it is felt in the throat; the relief b i'm
mediate.
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INFINITE PROGRESS.
BY GOODENOUGH.

When all is thought and said
The heat still Overrules the head
Still what we hope we must believe,
And what is given us receive
Must still believe, for still We hope
That, in world Of larger scope,
What fhere is faithfully begun
Will be completed, not undone.
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WtT AND HuMoR.
EDITED BY
LDonne1ly. JI..

The man that halls you Tom or Jack,
And proves by humping on your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such friend that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.
Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1875-02-23

A TWENTY SECOND GATHERING FOR THE DISCUS
SION OF PRESENT ISSUES.
large meeting of colored citizens was held,
last evening, at Z. Zion Church for the discus
sion of present political issues. James Smith
was made President, |. p. Carty
vice. President, and L. p. D. Henry secretary.
Tho meeting was opened with prayer by the
President, after which the call for the meeting
was read by the Secretary, when p. s. Blake
read the Civil Rights bill as passed by the House
of Representatives, commenting briefly upon it.
A. Il. Henry was then introduced and made an
eloquent speech upon the pending conditions of
our country. Moses II. Murray discussed the
educational status of the colored people. l.. p.
b. Henry, A. b., spoke of present political is
sues and responsibilities, and d. B. Grooms re-
viewed at length the ACHIEVEMENTS of our Repub-
lican government. J. @. Walker was sorry to
find great many Republicans weak-knced
enough to ask for separate tax for the sup
port of schools, and hoped for better things
inasmuch as the children of Israel were
brought out of bondage in due time
through patience. Rev. Solomon Cooper ex-
pressed regret for some of the remarks which
had been made, declaring the principles Of the
erublcan party (not men) good enough, and
inquired where shall we so if we leave the party
in hate while We cannot buy one inch of
ground?
Rev. Fielder Israel closed the meeting with a
few appropriate words of counsel.
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Destructive Fire in chicago.

TWENTY BUILDINGS, COVERING EIGHT ACRES OF
GROUND IN RUISs-THE Loas AT LEAST QUAR-
TER OF A MILLION DOLLARS.
CHICAGO, Feb. 22.-This morning, at three
o'clock, fire broke out in the drug house Of
Wahl Brothers glue works, on Thirty first street
and Lancaster avenue. The building covers
eight acres, and was almost completely des-
troyed, together with the stock, which was
very large. The loss is estimated at 100000,
but the insurance men say it will not exceed
$3.50, 900 exclusive of insurance. There was
some difficulty in making the alarm understood,
and the fire had made considerable progress b.
fore the engines arrived The infamable char
acter of the building caused the flames to spread
very rapidly Nothing was saved except the office,
two ice houses, parts of the refuse and cork
houses, and the books and papers. There were
twenty buildings in all. There are various
theories as to the cause of the fire, but the
generally accepted one is that the dry-house
was overheated. The insurance foots up $780,
600, including Newtown, of Pbnnsylvania,
50, 600 =; Southside, do, $1,000; Boatmen's do,
1880 Lancaster, do, s3,20O; Allemania, do,
S2,4OO State of Pennsylvania, $1,000; Fame,
of Philadelphia, $1,000 American. do, 50. 400.
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Board of Education.

REGULAR MEETING LAST EvENING-nouTINE BusI-
NEes-NoRMAL scHooI.-TAxATIoN OF coLoRRn
PEOPLE.
The Board of Education met last evening.
note of $4,000 co. at 90 days was authorized
to be negotiated, and an order for $4,000 was
directed to be drawn to pay note due.
A bill to annex School District No. 10 to the
city for school purposes, was reported from the
special committee on the subject approved and
directed to be forwarded to the Legislature
The teachers of the night schools were direct.
ed TO be placed on the payrolls.
The proper officers of the Board were instruct
ed TO draw on the City Treasurer for the amount
Of school taxes in his hands,
Mr.. Ferris presented petition from colored
citizens over 18th street bridge. who are main.
tanning school for eolored children there ask
ing that ton of coal be donated them. After
come discussion, in which number OF men,
bers expressed the opinion that the Board had
no right to make the donation, motion to do so
was lost.
Mr. Fraim presented lengthy report on the
Normal School, showing it's value in training and
educating teachers. During the last year, out of
twelve teachers, who had upon examination. OBJ
tanned permanent certificates ten had been at
tending the Normal School, and one had been a
teacher therein A careful examination shows
that the scholarship Of the teachers has been
steadily improving, and that the school could
not well be dispensed with. With Wow, how
ever, TO increase it's usefulness, the committee,
at tho conclusion of their report, offered a reso
luton that difference of five per cent. be made
in the salaries in favor of those who hold per
manent certificates. The report and resolution
wero laid over two weeks
The Superintendent's quarterly report, giving
the cost &C., of the books furnished the several
schools and the amount Of money received from
each for the use of books, was read. The total
Of cost was Si1179, 81, and the receipts 1929 &c.
The following resolution, previously offered
by H. M. jenkins, WAS called up, and unani'
mously adopted
Resolved BY the Board of Education of the
City of Wilmington that it is the sense of this
Board that all citizens should be equally taxed
for school purposes, according to their taxable
valuation, without regard to color, and we re-
spectfully petition the Legislature for the pas.
sage of amendments to the existing laws, securing
such equality of taxation within the city OF
Wilmington.
The Secretary was directed to forward copy
of the resolution to the Legislature.
Mr.. Woolley was appointed to lay the Boards
annual statement before the City Council and
the Finance and Printing Committees were
ordered to have it published.
Orders were drawn in favor of Y. Pickels fol
the contract price of the heaters furnished by
him for the new school-house, and Commercial
Printing Co., $685.
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SECOND EDITION.
The CIvH Allegiance OF Catholics.

| LECTURE BY BISHOP BEcKER-BEyIEw OF MR..
| oLADsToNE'a pAPER-EvIDENcEs OF CIVIL AL
| LEdIANcE.
Right Rev. Bishop Becker delivered the fourth
lecture in his COURSE last evening, at ST. Peters
church, taking for his subject Z" The Civil Alle-
| glance of Catholics" in the elaboration of which
he sought to prove the falsity Of Wm. E. Glad
stones charge of disloyalty oil the part of the
Catholics of England and by implication of
America and the whole world. First in
this purpose he argued that the Catho-
lie church was ordained of God-that the
commission was given unto it to go into all
countries and to all people preaching
Christ to the end of time-and being 80 ordained
it could not and was infallible even Christ
he is truth. The Pontiif be claimed, being the
head Of tho church and it's representative,
is also infalbe because he is the exponent not
of bis own opinions but Of the teachings of
Christ and the church. With civil governments
in The abstract Bishop Becker claimed Catholics
had nothing to do Their obedience lies in and
through the church, which is the foundation of
all law, and no State has right to exact that of
any man which is not in conformity to the teach
ings of God. This ia the limit of Catholic civil
allegiance. AS between the obedience OF pa
rent who required tue performance of a sinful
act and the command of God there would be no
hesitancy in determining to whom allegiance
was due, so between the requirements of the
ought to hesitate,we all being children of larger
growth.
In this part of his lecture Dshep Becker was
quite severe upon Protestant doctrine iii general
and the Anglican church he characterized as the
Anglican establishment. They make light, he
said, of their societies as sort of civil SER
vice-a mere police force land they do not claim
nor dare they assume that prerogative for their
church which Catholics have all along main
tanned.
AS evidence of the civil allegiance of Catho-
lies Bishop Becker pointed to the zeal with
which he said the Catholic Church always es-
poused the side Of the people against tyranny
that they always participated in the national
anniversaries, and in our late war there were no
better soldiers than the Loyal Irish Catholics,
and he pointed with pride to those who accom-
panied Sherman in his march to
the sea. In the Ffench Revolution he
claimed that the Catholics behaved the parts of
patriots. Charles Carroll of Carrollton. signer
of the Declaration of Independence, and Lafay-
ette he recognized as Catholics and perceived in
them all TINT constitutes subordination and ale
glance to the civil authority. Catholics he also
found to be foremost in the pathway of the arts,
the sciences, Jurisprudence, and all that makes
meu useful citizens and ornaments in gociety
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aanlroad Movemenls in sussex.
MEETING AT LAUREL IN FAVOR OF THE ROAD FROM
pEINAR TO GEORGETOWN.
Special TO the Commercial

MEETING AT LAUREL IN FAVOR OF THE ROAD FROM
DELNAR TO GEORGETOWN
Special to the Commercial.
LAUREL, Del, Feb. "a.
Quite large and enthusiastic meeting Of the
citizens Of Little Creek, Broad Creek, and Gum
boro' hundreds, was held in Laurel, ON Saturday
last, to consider the expediency of soliciting
State MD for the purpose of building railroad
from Demar to Georgetown.
On motion, George W. Horsey Esd. was ap-
pointed Chairman and Daniel j. Fooks, Secre-
tary.
Dr. Wm. L. Wolfe, Il. j. Moore, T. B. Giles,
VIM II. Wheatly, and j. W. Anderson were APP
pointed committee to draft resolutions for the
meeting. The committee retired and in short
time reported the following, which were unani-
monsly adopted
WHEREAS, The P. W. & b. Railroad has i'm
posed upon lis for years such onerous taxes as
have crippled our business and embarrassed our
whole people, therefore
Resolyed, That we earnestly ask the present
Legislature to grant us State aid in constructing
railroad-previnusly chartered-from Delmar
to Georgetown.
R.soleed, That it ia the desire of this meeting
that the contemplated rail road from Demar to
Georgetown shall run within one mile from the
center of the town of Laurel, and that the char
ter of said rail road company be so amended as
to require said company to run said road and es-
tablish depot within one mile of the center of
said town OF Laurel, and in the event Of said
charter being so amended, we request our Sena-
tors and Representatives in the General Assem-
bly, of this State to vote for State aid to assist in
building and constructing said road.
On motion Levin Hitch, Thos. Bacon, and
VIM. H. Wheatly were appointed committee to
present to the Legislature the resolution.
Great interest WAS manifested in the newly
proposed road and it is hoped that movement
of such vital importance to the fruit growers
and others of this section of the Peninsula will
receive the hearty and unanimous support Of the
Legislature.
On motion it was ordered that the proceedings
of the meeting be published in the Daily Com
MERcIAL and Daily Gazette of Wilmington.
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FOURTH EDITION.


I
REPORT OF THE LouIsIANA INvEsTIaATINd COM
MITTEE.
WAsHISGToN, Fob. %.
In the House the Committee on Louisiana pre-
sented two resolutions from the whole commit
tee, first recommending the Louisiana House 10
reseat the members who were thrown out, and
the second, which was not unanimous, that Kel-
logg be recognized as Governor Of the State.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE STATE OF THE
SOUTH.
The majority report Of the Committee on the
State Of the South was submitted to the House,
to-day. Two of the Committee, Messrs Foster
and Phelps, say that a majority of the citizens
of Louisiana seem willing to accept as COM
promise the recognition of Kellogg as governor
and the restoration to the Conservatives Of the
control Of the lower House.
They do not wish to oppose the recommended
ton but do not want to be understood as urging
it.
The report closes by saying that in their judg-
ment all that is needed in Louisiana is to with
draw the Federal troops and leave the people of
that State to govern themselves.
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AN EFFORT TO INVITE THE ooNFERENCE-REPoRT-
ED PROJECT TO BUILD NEW BAPTIST CHURCH
gKsrrvALs, &c.
Correspondence ot the Commercially
NhLFoRD, Feb, 22.
This morning is bright and clear, and i'll
spires the hope that the weather will soon per-
nit the resumption of out door operations. We
now have many idle laborers who are anxious
to get work again.
Some persons profess desire that the next
session of the Wilmington Conference shall be
held in this town, and it is said that an invita-
ton will be extended. 05l-.
The Baptists have bought a lot on Second
street. adjoining the academy, and talk of build
ing church this year.
The chapel held festival on last Thursday
and Fridy evenings, from which they realized
quite a handsome sum for the school. The
Presbyterian sabbath school will hold festival,
this evening, in the basement of the church.
Last week tho old officers OF the Building and
Loan Association were reelected.
A great many deaths are now occurring in the
neighborhood of Milford.
II s not thought that the peaches have thus
far been hurt to any great degree.
Robert D Hoffecker removes to Smyrna, to-
day, with Ills family. FRANK.
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Rapid Trnnsit 10 the Centennial.

Col. Scott's plans OF running fast trains be-
tween New York and Philadelphia, during the
Exposition, have already been alluded to in the
COMMERCIAL. He is said to expect to reduce the
time nearly one-half between the two cities. In
order to test tho speed of his swiftest locomo-
tives, he states that few months ago
he rode between New York and phila-
dephia, making the fewest stoppages and
Mt the rapidest rate possible and that he is con-
vinced that new and more powerful locomotives
must be put upon the road before his anticipa-
tions can be realized. The engines necessary
to fulfil his purpose are now being built in the
shops of the company, and that they shall be
ready before the required time to convey all ex'
hibits carefully, rapidly, and satisfactorily to the
Centennial buildings.
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The House this afternoon, under suspension
of the rules, passed the river and harbor aippro'
printior bill by yeas 2O7, nays 45. The bill ap
proprates upwards of six million dollars
The Germania newspaper of Berlin, having
published the recent encyclical from the Pope
to the prussian bishops, it has been coniiscated
and its proprietors are to be prosecuted.
The United States Pension Agent in Washing
ton has received information Of the death of Q
pensioner in Georgia, aged ninety-nine years,
who left son sixteen years Of age.