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The Wilmingtonian., 1886-12-11

~ tile civil service of our country in cOIisid
cred. We understand that the main aim 0
this reform idea is to gain for the service OF
the country those best fitted for the work.
But were the idea Of reform carried out t,
its logical end, no one can doubt Tut tina
under a Democratic administration it nigh
happen that the individual best fitted for
certain given government position, say, fl
instance, the .Secretaryship OF War, wouh
be Republican; or, under Republican adj
ministl atiun the accident might occur tba
the man best fitted at the mcmept to hoh
tile portfolio of the Navy would be Dem,
crat. Now for the President of either ad.
ministration, for illustrations sake take til.
Democratic, to appoint Republican Seer
tary of War though quite in line with I'll
theory of civil service, in the supposed il
stance, would be an act traitoruus to tb,
voice of the people who had by popula
vote plainly said that the cab
net positions shall be held by Democrats t,
the exclusion of Republicans.
Is tile Presidents (Mr. Cleveland, position
upon this question such that he dare plac
Civil Service in direct opposition to the ~.
written law OF the land as inferred by th
popular vote?
If this Civil Service Reform is a genuin
Thing and has any truth, integrity, or hone,.
ty alb 'ut it, it shonld rule and apply to al
government service, not to clerks and ian,-
ters alone, but to all public servants of the
people who receive appointment or selection
from the President.
But, this is impracticable under our insti-
tutons and traditions.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-12-11
Things Not What They Seem.

San Francisco Chronicle.
The people who know most about human
nature are always the most considerate and
delicate. When you go into dry goods
store the clerk comes up in the best humor,
rubbing his hands, smiling, evidently delight.
ed to see you. Bur when you go into a drug
store you see look of gentle seriousness
come over the mans face as he approaches
you. He does not ask You what he can do
for you. There are so many things be can
do for you that he simply stands aud waits.
You may only want str, chuine or arsenic, OF
you may have one of those curious things
called prescription, which a doctor gives
You, which makes you wonder what is really
the matter with you-whether he is not de
ceving you-when he says its only your di-
gestion that's little out of sorts. No ordi.
nary hu man being can look at prescription
without feeling that he may die of it after
all. However, everything in drug store is
cabalistic and mystic. Ycu can stir some.
thing or anything with spoon. The drug
clerk takes out something terrible looking
thing, suggestive of all s,rts Of pains and
penalties, and uses that to stir the mixture.
The spoon would do quite as well, bat II
would not impress you. When he wants tc
pour out something he takes a glass that's
all carefully lined with measure and atches
it critically, as if death were above certain
line. 1t isn't. You might take 1t full and
it wouldn't hurt you, but it wouldn't impress
you. And so when you see a doug cleil
take down a, bottle and carefully measure
out dose of brown liquid, car efully put il
in glass, sprinkle it with soda aud hand II
to a sick looking man, who is apparently dy
Ing, it does not probably occur to ycq that
US plsiq whiskey But lis,
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-12-11
How to Dress.
, FEW PERTINENT SUGGESTIONS FOR LADY
SHOPPERS.

| SHOPPERS
| From the Dry Goods Chronicle.
| Stiff materials are less manageable and
graceful than soft ones
One dull stuff and one glossy stuff unite
better than two glossy or two dali ones.
Cnlors near the face should be soft and in
iescribable.
woman to be well dressed and to look
'er best must concentrate her efforts on tints
sw and good.
Antique lace will last forever, remend and
clean 1t is as much as you please. BEING
elbow instead of snow whit It scarcely cv.
shows dirt. Modern lace, however good
costly, soon wears out.
Ihe worst extravaganza is to invest in
'shoddy" materials got up by unprincipled
raiders to deceive the eye.
One or two really fine jewels are in far
Htter taste than qrantity of mediocre
ones
Experience shows that all dull, rich silks
'ear gr' asy, that good satin outlasts three
hks and three cheap satins and that black
velvet lasts longer than coored.
A set Of good furs is never apy loss as II
an be cut, rejnined, dispersed, united. worn
IN an evening dress, or mantle, at will.
without harm.
A dress or jacket properly made and prop
r'y fitted by god dressmaker, thouph
his costs more than one made by a novice.
viii look and hang well TO the end. while the
'ther will not. ------------.
IL Is Indispensable in baying dresses to re-
member what your wardrobe contains. as
two dresses eau often he combined into ons
owadays If the colors are happily chosen.
'hich is great economy.
Ladies who study economy will never
'dopt the "utre in anything, for outre fash
'ons never last long.
women of taste are content with few
hings-and those good--in lieu of a quap-
ity of cheap finery.
Never buy bonnet that will not 90 with
vi your dresses and jackets likely to re re-
luired while the bonnet lasts-unIess Won
san afford to wear one to match each suit.
Extravaganza in dress means not only
spending tho much money on it, but also
The patron ng Of foolish fashions devised
simply to waste material.
A dark thin stuff is inficitely cheaper than
he cheapest pale material, though It's origi-
al cost be double.
pnrpnseless chaos of IN llinery is NOT
'eautilul from an artistic pout Of view, and
Tobably mischievons from a sanitary one.
True skill iu making up materials consists
'ot only in fitting the dress, but ia giving to
very m 'rsel of stuff its due value.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-12-11
A Little Too Much Brig.

'sTo boast is not to do Great II
New York, and great is the Herald but great
a. they are both are goiug to be greater"
the above are the opening and closing
words of the New York Herald editoria
p.an of Tuesday last when announcing ths
feat of placing It's journal in Washington
d. c.. at 8 O'clock a. m.
TIE article says 1--WE announced on Sun.
day the Establishment of the Rerdlds dali,
special train between New Yoik aud WASH =
iugton. To-day we publish map of til
route that train traverses. 1t leaves Me-
York at 10 every morning reaching Wasi
ingt,n by 8. It costs $4,000 week, but y
places the Herald within reach at eail
breakfast of at least Eve millions of person,
to whom it was not available before at 3,
early an hour"
1t Is a spleud d piece of enterprise no doubt
without parallel in newspaper service ii
this country.
Still we may insert here at this moment,
while the great New York journal is blow
ing its own trumpet SO loudly, the quel!
why do not the managers see that there ii
more exactitude in leaving the Herald bur
dies in Wilmington as well as in Washington.
Local dealers have had good cause of CON-
plant right along during the past summer
and fall of the carelessness ofthe train hand.
In dropping the Herald bundles. S1metimep
the Wilmington packages from New York
addressed to different dealers here are left
Philadelphia. sometimes at points d1wn tb,
Peninsula.
Tue complete work of the management i
not done when the papers are placed upo
the P. H. r. train. 1t is an important pai
of the work to pay attention to the COM
plants Of subscribers who have just cause o.
complaint 10 not receiving their papers from
tho local dealers who in turn are depended,
on the wideawakeness of the train newspap
hands.
These remarks do not apply solely to the
Herald but to all the large New York dailies,
especially their Sunday service.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-12-11
Wilmington War Medals.

Certain soldiers Of the Union Army have
received medals In recognition of feats Of
vslor during the War of the Rebellion.
The medals and badges may be divided
into two grades, those conferred by corps
commanders or general officers to soldiers
whose conduct came under the personal or
special Q, gnizance of their superiors, and
those given by the United States Govern.
ment.
1t is unnecessary to add that for some reason
or other the latter are much more his ishly
priced than the former.
There are holders of both kinds OF medals
in Wilmington.
The only Delaware soldier who holds, or
did hold, for the recipient died lately, a
United States medal is the Rev, John Schill-
ing, at one time pastor of the Methodist
church, Brandywine village.
Aijutaut General Drum has just caused
to be compiled in his Office list of the indi-
viduals to whom medals have been awarded
under the resolution of Congress approved
July 18th, 1862, and the act of Congress ap.
proved March Srd, 1868.
It is doubtful whether cue person in ten
thousand Is aware that such medals have
been given.
There are on'y about 900 holders of Gov
ernmsnt medals Ieceived for meritcrious
conduct during the War Of the Rebellion.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-12-11
Useless Regrets

From the St Albans Messenger.
A fair and buxom widow who had buried
three husbands recently went with gentle
maD, who in his younger years had paid her
marked attention, to inspect tho graves of
her dear departed. After contemplating
them in mournful silence she murmured to
her companion ''Ah, James, you might
have been in that row now if you had cp'y
had o little more courRgep
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-12-11

The Rev John Schiling Of Wiimingt' L
rs stated before, the ouly Delaware soldie,
who was awarded one hy Congress belongeo
70 the Third Delaware Regiment.
One OF Mr.. Schilling's comrades Of til,
anne regiment j. X. Vckars, OF No. 8 Easr
Front street gives the following account Of
onw this signal distinction was conferred NJ
IN Wllmingtouian.
Gu August 10Th, 1864, the Fifth Army
'orps, to which the Third Delaware Reg i.
nent was attached and which was und :
he command OF General Warren, was orde'
4 t. capture the nth side ni the Weldl'
tnrnad, below PETERSBURG, Va. The s. C.
nd Corps had attempted the task twice and
,ompletsly failed. The acting Colonel OF
lie Third regiment was Mnjo Bailey, broth
r-in.law of Colonel Grimshsw, the wei,
nown physician of this city.
After the corps had lain in the ueighbnl-
,ood two days, Lieutenant D. d. Joseph
who commanded the company TO which
5chlling aud Vlckers belonged, beng on
scouting party made up of three Delaware
,ns captured rebel off :er aud three men.
Upon the , ffic, RS person were discovered
plans of the confederate attack for the NOR.
a., IT.
With the osptives to General Wa rem who
hanged the disposition of his forces in ac-
Jordance with the new information.
On the morning of the 19 Ii when the reb-
Il charge was made it was then that the
Fifth Army Corps, Second brigade and 3rd
Division, Colonel Hoffman, acting Gen.
.ral, succeeded in breaking the two front
ebel lines. Lieutenant Schillpg, who vas
'ergeant at the time, along with Joseph X
V,ckars, OF Sussex. David A. Lawson of the
same county, and third Delawarean, from
Kent, who subsequently was killed befor,
Richmond, but whose name is forgotten,
ach captured Coufeder ate iegimental flag
General Warren presented each of thert
men with badges of honor at military pa
rade. These badges are still held and high
ly priced. But SchilIiug, who at the mus
Cer-out at the close of the war was promoted
TO a leutenancy, was the only one of the
uuartette who received the much priced
Government medal. He returned to Viii
uingtou as first Lieutenant of the 3rd Della
ware Regiment.
The government medal Of 1862 is a five point
d star tipped with the tin foil Each point
crown Of laurel aud oak, while
within circle of 81 stars is device oI
America repressng Dscord.
The Warren badge for the capture of the
battle flags is silver inscribed with the recip-
ient's name, regiment, brigade and corps.
The flags captured on that day, in which
each Deawarean did equal mertorious serv-
ice, honoriug by their gallantry each county
If the State of Delaware, were turned over
10 Headquarters, and that was the last heard
of them.
Lieutenant David Joseph has been for
some years past in charge of the Cape Hen
lopen Light, but has been recently dis
charged.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-12-11
A Tale of u Lover.

Buffalo Courier.
"Du you see that row of poplars on the
anad an shore, standing apparently at equal
distances apart?' asked grave. faced man
# group Of passengers on the Fort Erie
errybolt yesterday.
The group nodded assent.
"N'eIl, there's quite story connected with
those trees" he continued. ''Some years
ago there we'd on the bluff, in Buffalo, over
looking the river, wealthy banker, whose
'nly daughter was beloved by young sur
vPyor. The old man was inclined to cues.
ton the professional skill of young R ID and
Level, and to put him to the test directed
him to set out, on the Dominion shore, a
row OF trees, no two of which should be any
further apart thau any other two. Tue trial
proved the lovers ineficiency, and forthwith
he was forbidden the house, and in despair
drowned himself in the rivr. Perhaps
some of you gentlemen with keen eyes can
tell viii h two trees are the flrthest apart"
The group took a critical view of the situ-
alton and each member selected different
pair of trees. Finally, after much discus
sion, an appeal was taken TO the solemn
faced stranger 10 solve the problem.
"The first and last, /" said hs calmly re-
suming his cigar aud walking away with
the sir Of q sage
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-12-11
Probably a New One.

An umbrella was carried off lately from
the editorial ro oms of a Georgia paper ap-
peared this paragraph: "The man who
came to my Office and deliberately stole my
umbrella is worse than a thief and meanei
than an assassin, lower than blackguarc
and ugler than crazy quilt. May each
rain-drop that falls turn into vitrol, ant
each sun ray briStIe with 10000 pointec
needles dipped in acrid poison to prick his
putrid flesh"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-21
WASHINGTON.

The Land Office report shows that
during the year q, 56S acres of public
lands have been disposed of, which is an in
crease of 1,129050 acres over the previous
year
The President has pardoned three
Mormon Bishops, the first who were convicted
under the Edmunds law. He had become sat-
isfied that the sentences were illegally i'm
posed
The remains of Salmon p. Chase
were transferred to a new casket, for ship
ment from Washington to Cincinnati Tho
body having been embalmed, the features
were easily recognized
Col. o. b. Wilcox, Twelfth Infantry,
was appointed by the President to be Briga-
der General, vice Gen. j. H. Potter, retired
Gen. Wilcox will assume command of the
Department of the Missouri, with headquar-
ters at Fort Leavonworth.
1t is claimed that court of inquiry
will yet be necessary to settle the status Of
Geronimo's surrender, though General Miles
report is looked upon by his friends as a
complete vindication of his course
The State Department is informed
that the pulling down of the American flag
ON schooner seized at Shelbourne, Nova
Scotia, was the result of a misunderstanding,
for which the Canadian officers have apollo
cri1aJ
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

The ocean steamer Anchoria arrived
safely at ST. Johns, N. T., having been over
due twelve days. Her machinery had broken
down when three days out from Liverpool,
and the remainder of the route was made un-
der sail. The passengers were we'll Two
births and two deaths occurred during the
voyage; and for some time, owing to lack Of
provisions the passengers and crew had been
put upon an allowance of two meals day.
An armed crew from the Canadian
cruiser Terror boarded the American schooner
Marion Grimes, held at Shelburne, N. s. for
violation Of tho custom laws, and compelled
the Captain to haul down the American flag
which was waving from the masthead
While officiating at the altar in q
Polish Catholic Church at Pittsburgh an at
tempt was made to assassinate the Rev. Father
MIskewitz, an unknown person firing at him
| through a window. The bullet passed within
| six inches of the priests body, and the affair
caused intense excitement among the congre-
cation.
A water famine prevails in the Ma
honing Valley, Pennsylvania, no rain having
fallen in nine weeks. If rain does not como
speedily the miners will be compelled to stop
work The people are reported to be greatly
| alarmed
The Standard Oil Company has pur-
chased the property Of the American and
Empire Refining Companies in the Pittsburgh
district, and the Raccoon Oil Company's land
at Shamokin, Pa The price paid by the
Standard Company aggregated s2,0OoOlo.
A Toronto physician certifies that
one Of his patients has given birth to healthy
children at periods only five months apark
The assassination of ex-President
Gonzales in an interior town in Mexico is re-
ported. General Gonzales was installed Pres
ident of Mexico December 1, $780, on the over
| throw of General Porfirio Daz
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-21

Rev. W. Spaulding, Fusion; Seventh New
Jersey, Edwin ]. Kerr, Democrat-a bolt from
the denomination Of Congressman McAdoo
William l.. Maginnis, Of Ohio, was
appointed by the President TO be Chief JUS
tice OF the supreme Court Of the Territory Of
Wyoming
Congressional nominations: Third
Maryland District H. W. Rusk, Democrat for
short and long terms; Thirty first New York,
J. @. Sawyer, Republican; Fourth Maryland,
Isadore Raynor, Democrat; Seventh New Jer-
sey, Siegfried Hammerschlag, Republican;
Second Connecticut f. G. Lewis, Re-
publican; Fifteenth New York, Henry
Bacon, Democrat; Twentieth New York,
George West Republican; Thrty-third New
York, James Jackson, Jr., Democrat; Second
Massachusetts,, Bushrod Morse, Democrat;
Eighth Massachusetts, Charles Haller, Repub-
lican; Second Connecticut Carter French,
Democrat; Eighteenth Pennsylvania, Louis f.
Atkinson, Republican; Ninth Missouri, Nathan
Frank, Republican; Second Louisiana, Rich
ard Sims, Republican,; Third Kentucky W.
G. Hunter, Republican,; Sixth Massachusetts,,
Henry Cabot Lodge Republican; Eleventh
New York, James s. Ketchum, Republican;
Utah, John I. Game.
John r. Martin has been nominated
for Congress by tho Republicans of the
Seventh District of Missouri. Spencer o.
Fisher is the Democratic and Greenback
nominee in the Tenth District of Michigan.
Congressional nominations: First
New York District, Perry Belmont, Democrat;
Third Arkansas District, H. b. Holman, Re-
publican; Twenty-sixth New York, M. III. De-
laney. Republican; Seventeenth New York.
William Lounsberry, Democrat; Fifteenth
New York, Moses Stevens, Republican; Thirty
second New York, J. M Farquhar, Repub-
lican; Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania, z f.
Allen, Greenbacker; Fifth Pennsylvania, Ed
win satterthwaite, Democrat; Fourth Penn
sylvania, Franklin Bound, Republican; Ninth
Massachusetts, ID. L. Burnett, Democrat
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-21
NEWS CONDENSED.
EASTERN.

Three trustworthy gentlemen, who
occupied sailboat report that when half way
between westport and Southport CT, they
saw a huge sea serpent 20 10 100 feet OF the
body Of which was exposed, while the monster
carried its head five feet out OF the water
Daniel Crusty and Louis Jester en-
gagged in prize fight at Rockaway Beach, Long
Island Crusty won, knocking his antagonist
through window.
At thirteen different points along the
Hudson River, between Catskill and Marlbo-
rough, ripe strawberries we're gathered last
week in the open fed
Judge Wallace, of the United States
Circuit Court at New York, denied the petition
of thirty five banks for an injunction against
the collection of State taxes on the value of
their shares.
General @. p. Stone has been select
ed as grand marshal of the coming parade in
New York at the dedication of the Bartholdi
statue, Oct 2S The attendance is requested
of military or civic organizations from every
State and Territory
A prisoner named McVicker, who
was being taken by the town marshal to Ere
mont, Ohio, leaped through a window of a
coach on an express train, and died soon after
he was picked up.
Bayard Putnam, chief of the Govern
-.~s..t rarAe.@a,hiAal Subway. hanaad himsalf
TO n tree near his camp at North Adams, Mass.
Sarah e. Howe has reopened her
woman's Bank in Boston, after having served
term of three years for swindling depositors.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-21
Modern JerusaIeu,.

The alleys, for you can not call them
streets, especially in the Jewish quar-
ter, are filthy, dirty, paved with mud
and slime. Dogs are met on every hand,
poor miserable ours, ever ready to seize
ON anything in the shape of food, from
q cast-off shoe to stray bone. In the
shops that line the narrow streets their
keepers sit cross-legged with an assort-
ment of souvenirs for travellers; pearls
from the Red Sea, cut and polished at
Bethlehem, shells from Acre, resurrec-
ton plant from Jericho, inlaid sandals,
carved olive wood trinkets, seals of
onyx, carnelian, jasper, or agate, with
the Church of the Resurrection, the
Mosque of Omar, the five crosses of
the Franciscans, the olive branch, Star
of Bethlehem, cut or painted in Hebrew,
with Jerusalem "Mizpah" upon them,
beautiful silver filagree from Damascus,
olive or CASTLE soap favored with spice
of Arab" paraffine candles, painted
and ornamented in many colors, to be
used in collecting and maintaining some
of the "holy Greek fire" that will spring
off the "holy sepulchre" the day before
Easter. Lost wool. tLo MohananaOdanS
celebrated the Feast of the Ascension
of the Prophet, and annually many
sons of Islam come here; many are
still here to "look on with silent con-
tempt the goings-on of the Christians. :"
1t is estimated that there are $4,000
strangers in the city-some for pleas
ure, but the greater number Christian
pilgrims to participate in the Easter
Festival. Ira Harris.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-21
East India Tatties.

In India they have way of making
O screen called "tattie," which is de-
scribed in the Christian at Work as O
large curved or sloping screen, which
is accurately fitted into each door or
window facing the west, the prevailing
direction from which the wind blows
in India. 1t is made of the roots of
the "khuskhus" grass, which singnlarly
combines strength and porosity with
the most delicious and refreshing fra
GRANGE. These screens are about an
inch in thickness, and during the hot
and dry west winds are saturated from
outside with water, which Immediately
commences evaporating, and, as evapo-
ration always produces cold, the wind,
which in the veranda would raise the
thermometer to 40 deg, passes into
the house at 70 or 80 deg, laden with
a delicious fragrance. While tatties
are in working order all other cooling
appliances are unnecessary. In the
neighborhood of Gwalior and Jhansi
there is another form of tattie. A
small, creeping, thorny variety of the
Der (Zizyphus iujuba) is largely found
in the jungles. This is collected and
dried, and at the proper time the whole
west veranda is inclosed with thorny
walls nine or ten inches thick, and,
these being saturated from the outside,
all doors are thrown open and de-
lightful temperature is secured. Tat
ties are of no use during the easterly
wind, which ushers in and accompanies
the rains; laden with moisture, it is o
damp wind, and therefore retards
evaporation. For our own country,
the sweet grass used in so many forms
in the Indian goods sold at Mount Des-
ert would produce precisely the same
effect as "khuskhus" grass, and it Is
surprising that no one has yet thought
of It's application.