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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-08
A Salute Of 100 Guns ami q g and
Ratification Meeting Tonight.

In honor of the great victory
achieved by the Democracy of the
country, on the 4th of November. in
the election of Gov. Grover Cleve-
land and Thomas a. Hendricks. the
standard bearers of that party, Presi-
dent and vice-president, of the United
States, and in compliance with pro.
clamation of the Democratic National
Committee, a national salute of one
one hundred guns was fired here at
noon to day in honor of this great
victory of the nation. Tonight q
grand parade and ratification meeting
will take place in front Of the CITY
Hotel. Every member of the Demo-
cratic Clubs Of the city are requested
to assemble in front Of City Hotel by
7.3O o'clock. The City Cornet Band
viii furnish music for the occasion.
Governor McLane, it IS expected aud
other prominent. Democrats will be
present to address the assembly. Let
there be an outpouring Of the peo-
pIe.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-08
f@ Sale, 9Or Gent dc.
.,isd IN this column for Ts0enty. flee Cts
Vienna Pressed Yeast.

naIs valuable yeast, free from all de-
literious matter, and the best yeast
I, bread, can be had of any grocery
.,ro in Annapolis or of the agent, for
N. city MORRIS MARX,
- .7.if. No. Market Space.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-08
The Presidential Election.

The facts so far elected give to our
standard bearers, beyond all question
handsome majority of the electoral
vote of the nation All the States
claimed by the democrats have been
conceded by the republicans, except
New York. The board ofcanvassers
of that State will meet on Wednesday
the 18th, before whom the returns
from all the counties will be critically
examined and the result announced
by them. The republicans will make
desperate fight before the board
but their efforts will be wasted. The
people of New York have pronounced
in favor of Cleveland and Hendricks,
and they will be inaugurated on the
4th of March next.
A PROCLAMATION TO THE PEOPLE OF
THE UNITED STATES.
Headquarters National Democratic
ommittee.-No. IL. West Fourth
street, New York, Nov. I, 1884,
To the people of the United States !:
There can no longer be any question
concerning the actual result of the
presidential election. Grover Cleve.
land and Thomas A. Hendricks have
eighteen electoral votes more than
are necessary to elect them. It is
not worth while for our adversaries
to claim the electoral vote of the State
of New York. 1t is absolutely GER
tain that the returns of the proper
officers Of election on the night of the
fourth of November showed a de-
cisive plurality in the State for the
electors supporting Cleveland and
Hendricks. Ifany different or altered
returns are now being prepared or
are promulgated they are corrupt fal.
siications of the records OF the State
OF New York, and the men aiding or
abettiDg the making of such reports
are criminals. 1t is not expected
that you will tamely submit to the
machination of such men Let them
understand that you will not.
Recognize at noon to morrow
throughout the United States the ac
tual election of Cleveland and Hen
bricks by firing national salutes.
Meet to morrow night throughout the
country and express your opinions in
manner that cannot be misunder-
stood. The men of New York are
resolved not to submit to the gross
outrage attempted to be perpetrated
upon their rights, and will speak for
themselves.
WILLIAM III. BARNUM,
Chairman National Democratic Com.
A. p. GoRMAN,
Chairman National Executive Com.
Recognizing the above authority,
the Democracy of Annapolis, fired q
salute to-day at noon, of one hundred
guns; and tonight will have grand
torchlight procession with music and
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-08

nor SALE. A handsome rosewood
case, six and three-quarter octave
Pnyo, with stool and cover, in excellent
s'odtion. Price $3.50. Apply at tCapi-
lal Office. Q O-tf.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-08
Sprained His Ankle.

Mr.. Joseph McGraw a blacksmith
in the employ of the A. & e. r. r.
Co., severely sprained one of bis an
kles in attempting to jump from one
engine to another in the engine house
last night. This makes three acci-
dents of similar character that has
occurred within the last month at the
depot.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-08
Dismissed.

A charge by the State fishery force
against Captain Vanostrand, Of the
schooner Escort, for violating the
oyster law by not display licensed
numbers, was dismissed by Justice
Gassaway, no evidence being adj
duced that violation of law was in
tended.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-08
BUSINESS CARD.
To ny City and Country Friends /:

Having permanently engaged nv
services to Mr.. j. FRANK KRAMER /
will be glad to see all my Old Custo-
mers at No. Francis street. In as
sumiDg q part management Of bis
business / shall, in conjunction with
the proprietor, endeavor to make Il
one Of the Leading Business Estab-
lishments Of the city. Our motto
will be Quick sales and small prof.
its, endeavoring at all times to gives
satisfaction to my customers. / hone
to be able to control large share of
the public patronage, and 10 make No.
4 Francis street, where J FRANK
KRAMER Is LOCATED, one Of the pleas
ATTEST places IN the city TO deal.
FRANCIS o. WHITE.
s26-1m
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-08

The prices Of potatoes in the Bal
timore markets are quoted at IS and SO
cents per bnshel for choice Irish; for
sweets 1926 per barrel, our hucks-
ters see these figures and 60 10 and
Is cents better On the former, and 25
and SO cents On the latter.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-08
WILLIAM III. BARNUM,
Chairman National Democratic Coz

Chairman National Executive Com.
Recognizing the above authority,
The Democracy of Annapolis, fred a
salute to-day at noon, of one hundred
guns; and tonight will have grand
torchlight procession with music and
banners.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-08
Lamp Post Replaced.

The lamp post that was broken
down some weeks ago corner Conduit
and Main Streets, by a runaway
horse, was replaced yesterday after
noon, and in the future as in the past
the old lamp will shed its light for
all who frequent that locality.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-08
Thanksgiving.

President Arthur has issued the US
nal annual proclamation for thanks
giving, and fixed upon Thursday the
9th of this month. The President
recommends that throughout the
land the people, ceasing from their
accustomed occupations, do then keep
holiday at their several homes and
their several places Of worship, and
with heart and voice pay reverent ac-
knowledgment to the Giver of all
Good for the countless blessings
wherewith He hath visited bis na-
ton"
1000 yards Of Dress Goods at 5 cents
per yard, very cheap. For low prices 20
TO J. Frank Kramer's. No. 4 Francis
street.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-28
The Games Of savages.

We must look for considerable sim
plioity in the games of savages. We
must also allow for their want of me-
chanical skill. No outsider, not even
Mr.. Gale, knows how a cricket ball is
stuffed and sewed; some, at least, of
the processes are a trade mystery. The
savage a not produce a cricket ball,
a golf ball, a billiard ball; his equip
ment is thus scanty, and he has to do
the best in his power with the rude ma
t%erials and means at his command.
Yet we must not despise the games of
savagcs. Little studied as they have
been by the anthropologist for even
MI. Taylor has chiefly written about a
primitive form of backgammon and
about tsigan, OF polo, alone,) the
games of savages deserve to be ex-
amincd with respect. The arrange
ment Of such vague things as savage
games is not very easy. They may,
perhaps be classed as initiative, gam
bling and purely sportive, though the
three divisions naturally overlap and
run into each other. The first category
may be dismissed briefly enough OF
savage as of civilized children it may
be said that stheir whole vocation is
endless imitation" A wedding or a
funeral among the elders is copied by
the little ones in childish play. The
EsquimauN children ssbuild little snow
huts, which they light up with scraps
OF lampwick begged from theft Ihcsh-
crs." Australian children have their
tiny boomcrangs and light yet danger
Gus boys spears, the latter beirg made
of a long reed tipped with sharp piece
of hard, heavy wood. Australian chill
dren are regularly taught by the old
men to weld their little weapons, and
the late Mr.. Grimston, at Harrow, has
his Australian counterpart il the aged
Murri, who sets up the marx for the
children and teaches them how to di-
rect their missiles. A disk made of bark
is thrown hard down on the ground,
and, as it bounds along with irregular
leaps, the young blacks cast at it with
their spears. Coincidence. steadincss,
fair play and self-command were incul-
Gated by the practices witnessed" in the
playing fields of tire bush. The imita-
tive gaines of young savages, then, are
like those of other young people, only
varying in the things initiated. Among
games we can scarcely reckon the
dances of the adults, in which the man
ners and customs OF beasts are initiated.
These dances have usually Il religious
sense, Gas when the Athcnian girls
mimicked the bear in the worship of
Artemius,) or they are magical cere-
monies, intended to secure luck in the
chase.-SaMraay Rcriev.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-28
The Old London Guilds.

~ - iE~3Sss- - :. aai:s5sES
Mr.. Hallam describes the old guilds
as ''fraternities by voluntary compact
to relieve each other in poverty and to
protect each other from injury" and
adds: ''Two essential characteristics
belonged to them, the common banquet
and the common purse. They had also,
in many instances, a religious, some
times q secret, ceremonial to knit more
firmly the bond Of fidelity. They read
lily became connected With the exercise
OF trades, with the training Of appren-
tees, with the traditional rules OF art
From what has just been stated as to
the origin of the several companies it is
pretty clear that this description by MI.
Hallam of the guilds is applicable to
the companies. London was, no doubt,
in these early days a great manufacture
ing town, in or near which cloth-work.
ing, the smelling Of iron, the making
of arrows and bows, the working Of
silk and leather, the manufacture of the
precious metals, and other industries
We're practiced with much success. and
the several trades appear to have had
in such early days their recognized
qu;N'ters in the city, and. owing to
their localiZation, they formed them
selves into guilds or companies for mu-
tual protection, and as such no doubt
they undertook to regulate the trades
whose names they bore; they appoint
ed overscers to inspect the wares pro-
duccd and sold and umpires to adiudi-
cate in cases of disputes between mas
tiers and workmen. But it should al
ways be kept in mind that from very
early times the several companies con
sisted largely OF non-craftsmen; from
time immemorial the privileges of men,
bership have been hereditary, one mode
of admission having always been by
patrimony, which causes the right
to the freedom to descend to all
the lineal descendants, and from
time immemorial a system OF appren-
ticeship has entered into the constitu-
ton Of the companies, under which
the members, irrespective OF whether
they were or were not members of tke
trades the names OF which were borne
by the companies, were privileged to
receive apprentices. Thus it came. to
pass that as early as 1445 of the Skin
ners' Company there was only one
skinner by trade a member, and that in
1860 OF the five persons named as mas
ter and wardens of the Clothworkers'
Company, only one was q clothworSer,
and that in still earlier times the GOV
crning body contained scarcely any
cIothworkers -NinctccmM Century,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-28
7he Death of Captain Cook.

Among the gods of this people was
n Lono, the worship of whom was di-
rected to a long pole bearing the image
OF a human head at the summit. This
Lono once resided on earth. Depart
ing from his dcvotces in a canoe, he
told them he would return in a canoe
with wings. When the Hawaiians saw
the English ship they concluded from
the winged sails that their deity had
come. Though of another color, Cap
tain Cook was evidently q chief, and
must surely be Lono. The strange
part of the story is that Cook lent him
self to the delusion. Acquainted With
the habits of the Pacific Islanders. and
observant of their modes of worship, he
knew the forms of respect to himself
We're like those paid to a god. He
permitted himself to be adorned for
worship, and submitted to their sacrili-
cial rites. Nay, more, he let himself
be placed between two idols, be
crowned with garlands like them, and
be bowed % in prayers like
those there addressed to them. 1t
is true, the old missionary told the
"iltei, tniJ tnc naulVeS, who had ever
since lamentcd the murder, charitably
supposed after their conversion, that
the Englishman was mad. This idea is
somewhat borne out by the admitted
fact that Cook had not long before re-
ceived a sun-stroke. AS to the death
OF the Captain, the native story runs
that, as he had given orders for his
men to furnish tirewood for the ship by
taking away the sacred fence round the
stone temple, great Indignation was
excited at the %sacrilege. 1t was this
that excited the insulting clamor. Ira
dition goes on to say that one man in
particular, half suspecting that Cook
was not the divinity expected, struck
him with a stick at the back of the neck
to test the question. The Captain cried
out with pain. Immediately the Ha-
waiian was satisfied he was only an i'm
position, for no god would feel the
blow, and he struck him down with a
mortal wound. Such was the story
told tho writer at Honolulu, the same
that tho missionaries heard from an
aged actor in the scene forty-five years
after the sad event.-INe Aihen0u7n.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-28
A D FOR THE YOUNG. ,
THE ISLE OF CONTENT.

There's a land in a latitude near to us all
Where each dweller may follow his bent;
II is under no monarch's tyrannital thrall,
It is known as the Isle of Content.
It's n wonderful spot: If you ask. it will bring
r To YOU quickly whate'cr you desire;
What it will not produce-dt's q angular
thing
That is Just what you never require.
By tb Q balmiest zephyrs of Happiness famed,
it is neither too cold nor too hot,
And the laAses and lads, never care in this land
Whether school is in session or not.
In Content tho but poor, yet you feel, ne'er-
theless,
You are equal in wealth to a King,
While n tear in the trousers or darn In the
You consider q capital thing.
If you haven't the money to purchase a meal
Il have been in that strait once or twice.,
Take u reef in your vest and you'll instantly
Of YOU Hv. IN Contcnt) every nice"
When l notice n lad with a bright, sunny
smile
That extends for three inches, or more,
Then / nudge myself inwardly, thinking, the
while;
"He's encamped on Contents happy shore"
vhave dwelt on this beautiful island at times,
While inditing small verses for you
nd ] often have wondered if, reading my
You were there ms a resident, too.
S. Condnt Foster, IN st. Nicholas.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-28
People Living in Trees.

81 am prepared to swallow the whole
:.sory, except the pouches in the mouth"
iaid a gentleman the other day, to
whom Prof. George G. Shelly, anthro-
pologist and member Of the Geograph-
seal Society, was recounting the story
of the capture Of a hairy family, clearly
human, but bearing many strong re-
semblance to the anthropoid apes,
which were secured by himself and the
well-known explorer, Carl, aided bv
some native soldiers, in the wilds OF
Laos in the year 1882.
"Thcre are" said the professor,
~three distinct races of men who livoin
trees. These are Indians in South
America who inhabit the borders of the
Orinoco, Tucuya AND MADEIRA rivers;
the Veddas of Ceylon, and the Krso-
Moniek Of Laos, a dependency of Siam.
Rrao-Moniek means man-monkey. Laos
is a part of the world which has never
been thoroughly explored, and but COM
paratively little is known about it by
~geographers and scientists. 1t con-
sains from eight hundred to one thou
sand square miles, and lies between the
fifteenth and twentieth degrees Of north
latitude. north of Siam, east of the
about four hundred miles southwest of
1'onquin. The reason why Loas
has not been thoroughly ex-
plored is because almost everyone
who has attempted it has died of
malarial fever. That paat of the coun-
try in which the Krao lives is very
swampy, is inhabited only by the men
who live in trees and by elephants and
snakes. The people live in trees to es-
cape the snakes and the wet ground.
They weave the branches together and
build huts therein. In climbing the
trees they use their toes as a monkey
does. They do not grasp the trees With
their legs, as we do. They do not use
fira. They live on dried fish, wild rice,
and Che rind of green cocoanut. Their
only weapon is a club.
Ten years ago Carl Book, the au-
sisor of The Man Hunters of Borneo'
and My Travels in SIAM was travel
iug in Asia on behalf of Mr.. Farini, the
English Barnum, to look for the tall
people which were said to live there.
In the court Of the king of Burmah I
saw and talked with a hairy family,
which were kept by the King for his
amusement, as European kings former
y kept fools and dwarfs. Book tried
in every way to secure them to take to
Europe, but he failed. He offered
100000 for one OF them, but money is
no object there; they have more Of it
than they know what to do with. These
people that Book saw were the grand
children of a hairy courAe which C1vw-
ford, who went to Burmah in 1885 as
English plenipotentiarv, saw there,
and Of which he published an account
in his book, "A Mission to the Court of
Ava Crawford said that these people
bad been given to the King Of Durmah
By the King Of Laos.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-28
Prfcerties Of Quicksilver.

One of the most curious properties of
quicksilver is its c~apability Of dissolving
or of forming amalgams with other
metals. A sheet of gold foil, dropped
into quicksilver, disappears almost as
quickly as a snow flake when it drops
into water. 1t has the power Of sepa-
rating or OF readily dissolving those re-
fractory metals which are not acted
upon by our most powerful acids. The
gold and silver mines pour it into their
machines holding the gold bearing
quartz; and, although no human eve
can detect a trace OF the precious sub
stance, so fine are the particles, yet the
liquid metal will hunt them out, and
incorporate it into its mass. By
subsequent distillation it yields it
into the hands of the miners, in a
state of virgin purity. Several years
ago, while lecturing before a class of
ladies on chemistry, we had occasion
to purify some quicksilver by forcing it
through chamois leather. The scrap
remained on the table after the lecture,
and an old lady, thinking it would be
very nice to wrap her gold spectacles
in, accordingly appropriated it to that
purpose. The next morning she came
to us in great alarm, stating that the
gold had mysteriously disappeared,
and nothing was left in the parcel but
the glasses. Sure enough, the metal
remaining in the pores OF the leather
had a~malgamatcd with the gold, and
entirely destroyed the spectacles. 1t
vas a mystery which we never could
explain to her satisfaction.--Eit9ssiQe
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-28
Horace GreeIey's Queer Traits.

I wonder if all overmastering minds
are not conspicuousiy weak in some di-
rection. 1t was a theory of the late
eminent scientest, DR.. Geo. M. Beard,
that there were no great men; that "if
a man is great in one direction he is
limited in some other" We know it
was SO with old Sam johnson, with
Milton. with Fontcnelle, with Hum
boldt, with Franklin; and later, with
Sumner, Greeley and Conkling.
l worked on the Tribune under Mr..
Greeley, and, though l saw him every
day, | never Yet heard him say Good
morning. or Good evening" elbow
do you do?" or "Good-bye," or inquire
after anybody's health. But he scru-
pulously answered every letter that
came to him, and answered it on the
spot, so that the writer generally
got the reply in the next mail.
developed on this subject, and he prob
ably wrote 10000 letters that did not
need writing, and died the sooner for
1t. On the street he seldom spoke to
even his nearest friends unless he had
business. 1 have known him to enter a
street-car down town, sit by the side of
a friend and ride Il mile without speak
ing a word, then suddenly nudge him
and say: ''Let me take your paper"
read the paper for another mile, look
out for the friends house, hand the pa
per to him just before reaching it, and
part company without speaking to him
or looking at him. He did not believe
in that expenditure of force which con-
ventlonal civilities require.
A gentleman who breakfasted with
him in 1865 tells me about it. Mr.
Greeley was not living at home at1th.
time; he was what Mrs. Greedy called
''boarding somewhere else" This
somewhere else happened to be the
Westmoreland, on Union Square, only
a couple OF blocks from his house.
prof. S. S. Packard and I were invited
to breakfast with him at nine o'clock.
We reached the dining-room of the
hotel before him, inquired for his table
and sat down. Presently he came in,
handed his overcoat and hat to q waiter,
and, without looking at us, ordered a
breakfast for one-a poached egg,
some milk toast and a cup of tea
Reaching the table he looked a little
surprised, but said: "Have you ordered
your breakfast?' We assured him that
we had not, but we ordered the same
that he had done. ''What paper have
you?' he inquired of Packard as he sat
down. 1t was the Citizen, after Mike
OReilly left it and while Roose-
welt had it. Anything in it?' heasked.
Not much, except an article attacking
YOU said Packard. 1t was a column
and a half long, but Greeley read it
through. 'Absurd!' he said, to take so
much space for that. 1t isn't good
Journalism. 1t all ought to have been
said in one-third of the space. That
article ought never to have been
permitted to go below there he said,
indicating a place with his finger. He
did not allude to the substance of the
attack at all, but denouncedth sloven-
illness and extravaganza of using 50
much space. We took a hasty cup OF
tea and Departed Prof. rackard's
school was n of his hobbies. The
last speech of his life, J believe. wa,
made before its students during tho
campaign of '72.-~W. 4. Crofut, IN De.
t7oit Free PTesa
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-28
They Had Hearts.

1t was at a station in the Burn
Woods district of Arkansas, where c'1
ilization runs an inch to the mile. lA1
station was rough, shakey shanty Y
which All operator told on the WIZ
about the movements of the two tram
that daily noticed tEs dot in the Darn]
timbers. When the train came IN
frowsy, woe-begone, tired-out loohln4
woman, with three children tugglnS n
her, was seated on a log near the roas1
platform, waiting for something y
somebody-the Lord knows what.
"Thar's one on 'cm,' said an uneoat!
Black River stave splitter to ms
''Thar's one on 'em. Half human ahI
half boss. Lives on the fints up in ln|
hills. Theyes amt got no more eal,j
ton than bruits. 1heyes just ike AN ~.
miles. They amt got nothln IN ID
Christian creeters hes bout EN-. III
spoke in a loud tone, evidently garry
nothing whether he was heard OF III
| saw two big tears rolling down ~
faded woman's cheeks. "Wha. ml
you crying for?" I asked. uN]
hes got hearts, stranger, we'uns ltsi
she replied. - Pittsburgh c"''""
Ie}eqruDh,