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The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-29
The Death Roll of the Summer
Months.

Not the death roll of the great and
the famous whose deaths are heraldad
far and wide, whose eulogy everywhere
fills the types, and whose deeds are on
every tongue, but the death roll of
those great masses of humanity who
have been hurried to an untimely grave,
by accidents, by fire and flood, by the
mischances of life, during the three
months that have just ended. 1t is
sturdy John Ruskin who says that the
only lives whose history is worth writ
ing are the lives of the common people,
the people who are never heard of out
side Of their own narrow circles that
it is not worth while to write the biog-
raphies of the worlds great men and
women, because their lives do not speak
to the masses of the people what they
most want to hear. If this is true of
their lives, is there not something of
truth also in its application to the chron-
icle of their deaths ? At least the hum
dreds and thousands of unheald-of men
and women whom the hand of death
snatched so suddenly and unexpected
ly are worthy to have the manner of
their departure recalled for an instant.
The summer has been season of ter
rible accidents of m urderous mis-
chances. The earth has opened and
swallowed up thousands upon thousands
| of her people. Thousands more have
gone down into the jaws of the sea, OF
have fed the fury of the flames, or have
met sudden death in some other way.
] Tornado has been abroad during these
three months, and has found its victims
in Texas and New York and Kansas
and Minnesota. Accidents by railroad
and steamboat have claimed their vic
Tins. No one of these has been of un
usual horror, but there have been mum
bers of smaller ones, each numbering q
few victims, and the whole showing q
sad total. The Riverdale and the Mys
terry disasters are among the latest Of
these. The steamer Woodburn sunk
with number of her crew in the Brit
ish channel. The steamer Daphne cap
sized as she was being launched on the
Clyde for her first voyage, carrying
down with her nearly two hundred
persons A wharf gave way at Balti
more, and nearly another hundred sanl
in the waves. There were accidents il
mines by which numbers of miner
were killed, and collisions and accident
upon railroads of even more than tn,
usual number. Tlere were floods il
far-away India, which destroyed hun
dreds of villages, and there were destruc
tive fires in different parts of the worlC
with disastrous losses of life and prop
erty. And, the crowning calamities o
: the summer season, the earthquake il
Ischia, which hurried 1000 people from
the scenes of pleasure into the very jaw
l of most horrible death, and the vol
canic eruptions in the Island of Java
, in which the earth and sea together, lik
, hungry giants, swallowed upnear tweu
= tN times as many souls.
The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-29
Living to Purpose.

Everybody ought to have an honorable
ambition and supreme desire to be
and do something In life. 1t is better
to aspire and fail than to have no as
pirations at all. There are far fewer
who, having laudable ambition, fail
to make their mark than of those who
drift through existence aimlessly, with
no definite purpose in view. There are
..persons who devote half their lives in
trying to solve the problem Of their
existence and the other half in longing
for some friendly hand or propitious
circumstances to give them shove in
the right direction. Much has been
said and written of neglected lives and
wasted opportunities, and yet the sub
ject is by no means threadbare. 1t is
one of those accommodating matters
that will admit of Slime upon line and
precept upon precept." To live to par
pose-high and noble purpose-is an
ambition worthy of all men, and wo-
men, too. How to work out destiny
80 that 1t may inure to our own and
the well being of others is one of the
most profitable themes Of contempla-
ton. Men like the stars move in diff
ferent spheres and orbits, and to keep
e6 place is highly important. Fidelity
to duty and station will enable any in
dividual to become honored and use
full. Should one of the small and com
paratively insignificant heavenly bodies
attempt to usurp the place of one of th'
brilliant planets, it would doubles
suffer for its pains and become tn
ridicule of its associate twinklers.
So with individuals. They oftel
miss the accomplishment of any gram
aim because of failure to apprehen'
the plane on which they are best ttte
to move and shine. 1t is not necessar
to an honored and useful life this
one should be president, or senator,
minister plenipotentiary. A man migl
be either of these and yet possess no e.
traordinary intellectual or moral weigh
Yet, if he adorns the place by eminel
fitness for it, he will certainly commal
the respect of his fellows, and make Il
best of his opportunities. A constah
might be better and more useful mi
than king, so we see that place al
power are not always attended by t
characteristics and principles whi
entitle humanity 70 love and respe
To make the best of the position
which one isSaaced, whether that p
ition be high or low, is the secret OF
wi,e living. A clown and preacl
may he the very antipodes of charac
and calling, and yet man may
both honored and useful in eitl
The palpable fault with most OF
is what we fail to make the best oil
opportunities and aspire to positions
which we are not fitted. An import
thing to be remembered is that cl
acter is everything, and that with
the foundation of good characte
build upon, all efforts to inspire the
fidence of others in our capacity
honorable distinction will become P
fully abortive.
The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-29
Prominent People.

BLACKBURN .-Governo Blackburn,
of Kentucky, has issued S45 pardOns
during his administration.
TENNYsoN. = Alfred TennysoA's
publisher used to guarantee him
$15,0 900 year, but they can do it no
more.
EADs.--Captain Eads, the engineer
of the Mississippi jetties, has been in
vited to attend meeting in Paris to
consider the question of the improve
ment of the river Seine.
BEECHER.-T Rev. II. W. Beech
er's vacation has been extended by
the members of Plymouth church. The
extension is granted so that Mr..
Beecher may lecture in some of the
Southern cities.
KIRKwooD. - Ex-Governor Kirk
wood, of Iowa, since his return from a
tour to the Pacific coast, is earnest
in his advice to sight-seers to visit the
Rocky Mountains rather than to Switz-
erland.
BUTLER.-General. E. G. W. But
ler, who, on the establishment of the
Southern Confederacy, was offered the
position of commander.in-ch of the
Confederate forces, is enjoying hearty
old age in st. Louis.
TEEMER.- Teemer, the young
oarsman, who recently achieved thu
distinction of winning race in which
Edward Hanlan was his competitor, il
native of Pennsylvania, nineteen year
old. He is tall straight, square shoul
dered, with large dark eyes, and weigh
155 pounds when he rows.
CARLEToN.-Wfl Carleton, the pop
ular verse writer, is thus described b.
a reporter in Indianapolis where he ha
been visiting: "He is nearly six fee
tall, of slender build, with a bright
rather youthful face, blue eyes, aqui
line nose, and short whiskers, whic
cover only his chin. His hair which
slightly tinged with gray, is combe
smoothly back, and this, combine
with the somewhat clerical cut of h
clothes, giver him rather the appeal
ance of a well-to-do young minister on
vacation"
a
The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-29

"A small woman, dressed neatly,
walked around the city hall park in
New York city on Saturday, with a
number of bootblacks at her heels. On
he1 right side a card about six inches
by four was slung by common twine
from her shoulder so that it hung at
her hip. On it had been printed in ink
with stub pen 81 am widow,
worth $40, 900 and want husband. y
She had come at bad time. The pub
lie offices were closed, and the politi
clans were at Saratoga. She had nj
luck in the park, and she set out fol
Wall street,
The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-29
Gems of Thought.

Never leave home with unkind
words.
Never neglect to call upon your
friends.
Never laugh at the misfortunes of
others.
Never give promise that you do
not intend to fulfill.
We walk on the verge of two
worlds at our feet lies the very grave
that awaits us.
Every christian should be man of
courage and constancy, true to his con-
victions, and ever ready to stand up
for the right in the face Of every foe.
Keep your religion sweet. A sour
kind of piety that is always finding
fault with others, grumbling and
growing because things are not differ
eat from what they IRE, is neither we'll
pleasing to God, nor profitable to men.
Open your heart to the sweet influences
of divine grace, and let little of Gods
sunshine into yosr soul.
Touching Memorial.
The superintendent of a street rail,
way leading out of New York into the
country, tells how father and mother
erected memorial to their dead boy
Sitting alone in his office one day, q
strange gentleman entered, who proved
to be an officer in the army. Ht
carried little box in his hand, and
after some hesitation, said
81 have favor to ask of you.
had little boy, and I've lost him
He was all the world to me. When HI
was alive my wife used TO search my
pockets every night, and whatever
loose change she found, she would pu
it away for the baby. Well, he's gone
Here is the box.
"We talked the matter over, ant
came to the conclusion that we coult
not do better than to bring the none
to you to pay the fares of poor sic
) children out of town during the sum
mer.
sit would please him to know tina
! he is helping to save the lives of othe
, poor children. AS soon as the box
= empty we will fill it. While we liy
we will keep up the bank"
The box has been twice emptied an
filed, hundreds of sick and dying chi
u dren have owed to this dead baby the
y one breath of fresh air this summer.
Duties of Daily Life.
The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-29

PRESERVES, JAMS AND JELLIEs
keep better if the pots into which they
are put are sealed up while hot, because
if exposed to the air until cold little
germs will fall upon them from the air
and retain their vitality, and will soon
fall to work decomposing the fruit. On
the other hand, if the jars are sealed
while hot the germs are destroyed by
! sealding.
The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-29

Women visitors to the Yosemite
have to ride like men.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08

In his recent speech on the tariff
Senator Lamar cited some facts
which destroy the protectionist the
DRY that country without protect
i've tariff can have No manufactures,
and must sooner or later go to the
dogs. He said:
On May 1, 1913, digest of the CEN
sus of 1910 was submitted to congress
by Mr.. Teneh Coke, assistant secre-
tary of the treasury. That report de-
clared that the several branches of
manufacture had advanced since the
autumn of 1910 at the rate of twenty
per cent. | will give but one more
extract from this report:
The whole population, taken at
100000 of persons, will produce in
the current year an aggregate value
of manufactures, exclusive of doubt
full articles, OF S2000O0,OO0. The
general result furnished a gratifying
comparison with the product of
English manufacturers. which, in
1857, when the population of England
alone was about the same as that of
the United States ut this time, or
S.5O0,OOO, were computed at S266,OOO,-
10. This state of manufactures has
been in "A great measure attained by
the United States with only
an incidental support from govern
ment, while England has been for
hundreds of years progressing under
many forms of governmental aid"
This concludes the period of 1901 to
1912. Would any one call it a period
of adversely? The senator calls it "a
period of free trade. Mr.. Gallatin and
Mr.. Greeley and Mr.. Coke called it a
period of revenue duties with slight
incidental protection.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08

The pope. in letter to the En-
peror William, stands firm to the
faith that if peace is to reign between
Germany and the vatican concession
must be made to the head of the
church. That was the opinion Hide
brand, after he became Pope Gregory
VII. and compelled Henry Nv. en-
peror of Germany, to do penance be
fore the papal indict was removed
from his empire. Pope Leo XIII re
quires revision of the May laws, and
that further change shall be made
so as to bar the state from interfering
in the training of the clergy. or in thu
exercise of their pastoral duties. Such
Is the ultimatum offered by Pope Leo
WHO'S determined to uphold, while life
lasts. the supremacy of the pspal se'
in all matters pertainining tot 'ejuris
diction of the church.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08
FLANDERS.


In examining microseopically, in
the imperial health Office, Berlin, sec
lions from the cadaver of horse
killed on account of CHAMBERS, DIR.
Loeffler and Prof. Schultz discovered
IL delicate rod about the size of a
tubercle bacillus. This they cultiva-
ted, until the cultivation had been
carried through four generations.
From this fourth generation of purely
cultivated bacilli, a small quantity
was inoculated into the nasal mucous
membrane and into the shoulder of a
healthy old horse. The animal began
to be very feverish forty-eight hours
afterwards, and at the point of inocu-
lation ulcers developed, from which
knotted Emphatic cords could be felt
running to the tracheal and withers
glands, so that in about eight days
the horse presented all the appear
ance of a typical case of CHAMBERS.
After the horse had recovered it was
killed and sections were taken from
the enlarged glands. Similar bacilli
were found in these, which were
again subjected to "pure" cultivation
for four generations. after which rab-
bits, guinea pigs and white and field
mice were inoculated. The evidence
from some of these was merely mega
tive in character. Afterwards. two
healthy horses were inoculated with
the purely cultivated bacilli. These
became infected and died of CHAMBERS
and post norton examination reveal
ed the changes characteristic of the
diSease.-Nenical Press and Circular
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

a bill to reduce the rate of interest
from six to five per cent has been
offered in the New JeaSey legislature
The winnings OF those who engi-
neered the Chicago January corn deal
are now ascertained to have been not
more than 100000.
There were forty new incorpora-
tons of railroads in Ohio during 1892.
with some S65, 100000 capital and 300
miles of proposed road.
a Chicago jury brought in a verdict
of damages in the sum of 5000
against gas company whose service
exploded il private house.
Illinois derives an annual income of
half "a million from the Illinois Central
railroad. 1t is proposed to eXpend
this amount in improving the wagon
roads of the state.
Canadian papers report the arrival
of new bird is considerable numbers
which prey upon the English spar
rows. No description is vouchsafed,
save that it is a native of Egypt.
In many parts of Sweden exist
enormous quantities of bleached
MOSES which grew ages ago. n man
ulactory of paper from'this material
has begun operations near Joenkoep-
ing, and is said to be turning out a
product of excellent q lality.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08
An Austinite Abroad.

We are permitted TO extract the fol-
lowing items from letter from Mr..
Henry ID. stiles, brother of DIR. VIII
Liam Stiles, oil this city. Mr.. Stiles
has made an extended tour in the
east. and is now on his way home:
The morning i left Colombo
(Cey On). | went to call on Arab
Pasha. You know he Is there in
exile. He said he was pleased that l
visited him as an American, and
could tell him so much of America.
We could talk only through an inter
prefer. He resembles the pictures we
see Of him In the prints, but seems
discouraged and detected.
"One day in Colombo visited very
old Buddhist temple, where is kept a
tooth of Budha. No one sees
it, for it is covered with gold, and
no one sees that but by special per-
mission from high authority. The
prince Of Wales was permitted to take
it in his hand.
"Ceylon is under a cloud owing to
the failure Of the coffee tree. 1t has
a fungus on the leaf, and they are
now planting the LibefIan coffee and
India rubber.
Il shall be glad to get to the other
side of the Atlantic ocean, where,
only, the people know how TO cook
and how to live"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08
Newspaper Files as HISTORY.
Topeka Commonwealth.


The loss of the AtchisOn Champion
newspaper files 10y the recent fire was
i public as well as a private calamity.
Last February in an anniversary arti-
Gle on the history of his paper, Col.
Martin said of these files:
piled up in the corner Of the Cham
pion office is the most complete histo-
ry of AtchiSon that will ever be writ
ten. 1t is comprised in thirty-fye
bound volumes of the Champion.
weekly and daily, from the first issue
made 10y the present proprietor, Feb
ruary 20, 1858, up TO the present time.
In these papers, many Of them Begin
ming to take on the yellow hue of
age, every essential fact connect
ed with the growth and devel-
opment and daily life of the city
of AtchisOn is recorded-marriages
and deaths; the establishment of bust
ness and manufacturing enterprises,
and their changes; transfers of prop
erty; the erection of all important
buildings; the result of elections; the
opening of the streets, the building
OF railroads; fires and floods; the mu-
nicipal policies suggested, discussed
and adopted; and the daily life,
thoughts, hopes, triumphs, and disap-
poiDtlnents of an aspiring and ener-
getic community, are all embodied in
these files"
Now the Champion says, speaking
of the appearance Of its editorial room
the morning after the fire: "In a
heap in the corner is a square
pile still retaining certain
outline. That heap represents
the toll of twenty-five years. What
miles of writing traced, what count
less acres OF paper toilsomely covered,
what days and nights of labor are
represented by those twisted paste
hoard covers and scorched pages.
The charred rubbish was once the
history of Atchison, of Kansas, of the
United States, of the world, to some
extent for quarter Of Il century.
The author of book. though it be
Webster's Dictionary, could sit down
and write it again if lost, but no hui
man mind can reproduce IL newspa-
per file, which is the recollection Of a
thousand people"
What the Champion files were TO
AtchisOn. the files now contain, d in
the rooms of the State historical So
ciety at the state house are to
the state of Kansas. OF
these there are now 1925
bound volumes. These may be said
to contain the absolute history of
Kansas, and of every county, town,
hamlet and neighborhood. They
come from ever portion of the state.
They embrace the oldest files and the
newest from that of the first paper
published in 1854, on che banks of the
Missouri, where the city of Leaven-
worth now stands, to the newest
established newspapers in Rawlins
and Kearney counties. The editors
and publishers of the Kansas neWspa-
pers established the society, and have
always constituted almost its entire
membership. Their papers are a free
gift to the society. and only cost the
state the expense of binding and
caring for them.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08
and in the number above given, six of
the states are not included.


and in the number above given, six OF
the states are not included.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
VI all kinds and every kind of We
hicle drawn by steam or animals are
. on the free list. There is no extern
siye manufacture Of vehicles in this
state, but some may spring up, and
IN the meantime the local agencies of
such large eastern firms a. Stude-
baker, Hawley. Davis and others will
be- greatly benefited.
CRUDE AND REFINED OILS.
Next ON the free list is petroleum.
crude and refined. T1lis will furnish
4 b0undless market for Pacific coast
Oh, which already takes the lead in the
Mexican market. and will add thotl-
sands of dollars annually 10 thc
wealth of this state. Dynamite.
which is extensively manufactured
here, is also admitted free l.nder the
treaty, and its introduction into
Mexico on the free list will drive the
English high-power powders out of
the Central American market.
Last on the list, after the precious
metals, Is printing ink, in which line
san Francisco makers already take
the lead, and. with the duty off. will
easily be able to drive all Mexican
inks and all other competition out OF
the market. Barbed-wire fencing and
all its fixtures, ready-made houses OF
wood or iron. coal of all kinds and
many minor articles are also on the
free list.
With such n showing as this in
favor of San Francisco, the mer-
chants seem to be practically unani-
nous in their desire To see the treaty
ratified as soon as possible. Many of
them are inclined to urge upon the
Pacific coast senators the need for
favorable action.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE,
DEPARTMENT NOTES.
Things Seen and Heard Around the
Offices Yesterday.


The treasurer was worried yester-
day by paying. off the members and
>oilicers of the legislature.
This being the end of the second
fiscal quarter, the comptroller's force
was kept unusually busy balancing
mp all the books and accounts.
The comptroller yesterday deposit
Ell with the treasurer $4,000 to the
general revenue fund. $4,000 TO the
avail bic school fund and $4,000 To
The permanent school fund.
The only charter filed Yesterday
was the Albany fair grounds associa-
ton, of Shackleford county. The cap
tai stock is fifteen hundred dollars.
and the lncOrporators are ID. G.. Simp-
son. r. L. McAnnulty and Il. +. Con-
rad.
The governor yesterday re-appointed
the following members of the board
II managers of the lunatic asylum:
Col. X. \. Rutherford, DIR. w. j. Burt.
Judge u. L. Fillmore and Mr.. Alfred
smith. The governor has not yet APP
pointed the fifth. in the place Of Col.
Pope, who resigned
From tho number Of applications
sent in, it appears that there are
ABOUT three times as many applica-
tons for appointments as notaries
public as there are places TO fill. This
indicates the desire for office that is
growing in Texas. thereby placing
her up in the scale with Ohio.
The governor received letter from
Mr.. David Maule, of San Antonio, yes
terday, asking il he had issued n
requisition for the arrest of Harris,
who ran off with Mrs. Dan p. Smith
a few weeks ago. Mr.. Maule stated
that the matter would be placed be-
fore the grand jury for bill on
charge of abducting an insane wo-
man. The governor answered that
50 far he has done nothing Official
concerning the matter.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08
Rronzed Ornamental Works.

The introduction of what is termed
.'incrusted bronze" in certain descrip-
lions of bronze or copper wares, with
gold and silver Ornamentation, is no
ticed as among the Partisan novel
ties. 70 fix such ornamentation on
the class of articles named, they are
first painted in water colors, the prin-
cipal ingredient of which is white
lead. When several articles are to
receive the same drawing, it may be
painted in the same manner as in pOr-
celain painting, those portions which
remain implanted being vanished.
The article is then laid in
dilute nitric acid, which dis
solves the color and bites the
metal upon the painted places to the
required depth. After washing the
article. it is placed in silver OF gold
bath. where the free surfaces are cleo
trotyped in silver or gold; the varnish
is now removed, and the whole surfact
is polished in such a manner that ths
gilded and silvered parts are not un
duly prominent. This being done
the operation of bronzing follows
| Various fine effects are produced
among others. that with black bronze
By sulphnret Of copper in the space
beeVee& the gold and silver