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Evening journal., 1888-09-18
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
The Jute Srrn Interest.
sdltor of EvENINa IorRNAI.

To the Editor Of EVENING JOURNAL.
We have here. jute mill, employing
say 150 hands, in the manu- facture of
twines, etc, at the profit of not over Z "a
$ per cent per annum ON the investment.
The Mills bill puts iute on the free list.
making the cost of raw material % per
cent cheaper TO the manufacturers enab-
ling him TO reduce the cost of twines. etc.
to the consumer. It also reduces the
tariff on foreign goods 20 per cent. enab
ling the foreigner to reduce the cost to
the consumer
Does not the English manufacturer in
reality obtain almost double the reduc.
tion the home mill does inasmuch as he
receives the 20 per cent on his raw ma.
terial and also upon his cost of manu-
factureY Win not this of necessity re-
duce the profit 70 our mills below legiti.
mate interest and either compel them to
close down their works or else reduce the
wages to the English standardg What
advantages viii this community or this
country by such action receiver
This tariff is a puzzler If YOU viii ex.
plain this one point You will do one Demo.
cratic workman much good
Very respectfully,
G. +. WRIGuT.
Wilmington, Del, Sept Is, 1888.
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10 was day or two after this when one
morning the doctor came round as usual.
and when he took my hand l noticed a
changed expression suddenly come over
his face. You have little fever" he
said. thought this of no Importance,
for | knew that had experienced good
deal Of fever; but to the doctor it meant
relapse, and relapse in nine cases out of
ten means death. Whether the doctor
was mistaken, or whether the fever was
too slight TO be Of any serious harm, at
least felt no inconvenience from it, and
became convalescent.
And here is a great danger to yellow
fever patients. felt strength that did
not exist. was taken out of bed and
put in an easy chair Ny attendant left
me, and l was tempted to 90 down stairs
and reconnoiter. Luckily did not. Others
who were i'll of tho disease at the same
time, relying on this deceptive feeling of
having fully recovered. acted impru-
IDENTIFY. One Of them got up and dressed
himself and smoked a cigar. He was
dead within a few hours after his indis-
cretion.
When / was well enough to be told
what the trouble had really been, found
that had had the dreaded yellow fever;
that out Of party of six i've had been
taken down, and two out Of the five had
died. The two from whom had been
separated shortly before. and with whom
my relation was very near and dear, had
been in their graves five or six days be.
Evening journal., 1888-09-18
NEWSPAPER OPINIONS.
Temreranee Politlca.

New York Press.
The prohibitionists of New Jersey do
not seem TO realize the opportunity they
now heve to firmly establish the Local
Option law in their state They know
the law has been decided constitutional
by the Supreme Court of the state,
and that liquor selling was never before
so well restricted. The Republican party
in that state is bound by its pledges TO
vote for the retention Of the law and the
Democrats avowedly favor its abolition
Under these circumstances, IL seems
strange that the prohibitionists do not do
everything in their power to aid the
party which is fighting the saloon. Il is
still more strange that they should pur-
sue policy looking toward the triumph
Of their enemies. as they are now doing
by nominating third party candidates and
urging Republicans to give them a sup
port which in many cases will so divide
the vote as TO elect Democratic candi
dates.
Leading prohibitionists in every state
recognize that in state and national poll
ties the Republican party is friendly to
restrictive liquor legislation. They
know that il has passed most Of the anti
saloon laws enacted. They acknowledge
that its national platform this year en-
bodies the ideas of the most earnest tenn
perance reformers upon the withdrawal
of the government from participation in
the rum selling trade.
The prohibitionists Of New Jersey
ought to remember these things and cast
their votes in such way as to accomplish
most in the direction to which their faces
are turned
Evening journal., 1888-09-18
TIM Republicans Of Georgetown hun

THE Republicans of Georgetown hun
dred, Sussex county, propose TO nominate
Mr.. McKendree Downham as their candi-
date for representative in the General
Assembly. Here is nomination that is
most fitting, and one that should be sue
cessful before the people in November
Mr. Downham has the elements of a capi-
tai legislator He is intelligent, indus
trious. unbiased and incorruptible. He
has no axe to grind no county Office to
seek, and no man TO elect to the United
States Senate. He would be not only
able, but he would be also in position
TO attend strictly TO business His at
tention would not be diverted by those
outside influences which make
the ordinary legislator worse than useless
70 his community Mr. Downham, per
sonally represents himself He stands
for the younger and the better condition
Of things, not merely in the Republican
party, but in the whole state He is
honestly for new constitution; he is
sincere in his demands for a constitu-
ti0nal convention; he is upright in his
sympathies with those who are striving
10 correct the abuses Of our license sys.
TEN; he is an undoubted friend of better
public schools lie is friend
Of these things from conviction
and not from a desire to get office, When
he taught school few years ago he was
q good teacher, He went to the top
-aNhan he assumed the duties Of re
porter on the Sussex journal at George
town.. he at once made it the best local
paper in the county. He went to the top
and if the people of Sussex have the in
terest in their own welfare which people
are supposed to have they will give Nc
kendree Downham a chance to 20 to the
top in the Legislature of the state. Mr.
Downham is not a PARTISAN. He is not
a preiudiced, grasping Office seeker whose
mind has been warped and his heart en-
bittered by years Of factional strife. He
is not seeking to go to the General As
sembly to elect his partner or any one
else to the United States Senate. Mr.. |
Downham viii make an ideal candi-
date
Evening journal., 1888-09-18
YOmlt CONTINUOUSLY

by this time Ii was understood by those
about me that | had yellow fever but
was not informed of the fact, and sup.
posed | was simply suffering from one Of
the intermittent fevers common to tho
country. At last l began to throw up
blood This | have since understood to
be the next stage to "black vomit, " which
means desth. was alarmed at the blood.
but my nurse told me that it was caused
by some medicine was taking, and this
reassured me. They were giving me
quinine pills Of an enormous size. / be-
came slightly delirious, but do not think
there was much of the timo that was
not conscious Of what was going on
about me-
/ had been i'll FIVE days and crisis was
at hand. One night my attendants took
me out Of bed and put me in a chair be.
fore an open fire; wrapped hot blankets
around me and put my feet in water so
hot that IL almost scalded them. | can't
remember If they gave me any hot drink.
but | think not. / sat in this chair a few
minutes wondering what it all meant
though too i'll to care very much. but
patiently submitting to everything. Then
suddenly broke into profuse perspira-
tion. ! was put back to bed and left to
swelter, without much attention after
that, for / was considered saved, Whether
there was danger in thus leaving me to
do as liked or not, dpn't know, but
kicked the covers off and lay with breeze
blowing in on me through an open window.
never can forget the delicious sensation
of relief lying there sweltering with the
breeze blowing over me.
Evening journal., 1888-09-18

OF en- old negro woman who had had con-
siderable experience as nurse for yellow
soser patients. and who watched him till
he recovered This certainly does NOT
look well for the confidence Of physicians
IN such cases, and there has been no es,,e-
ctal item of information revealed to the
profession concerning the nature or treat
ment Of the disease since. The fever
seems to gather violence as it becomes
epidemic. Ordinary eases usually last
1--WE days, but in malignant cases the ma
tient often dies in few hours. It Is
pretty well determined that yellow fever
is not contagious. In cases where a
number Of persons have been in the same
house with one stricken, they have all
escaped contracting the disease. The
fact of having had the disease once is no
preventive against having it again. Per
sons have been known to pass through
Two experiences Of yellow fever and die
in third attack. The horrors come
rather to those who are destined to die
than to those who recover. After "blacl
vomit" sets in the patient passes into
convHlsions, and in these terrible spasms
at last passes away.
1t is disputed that one who has seblacl,
vomit" cannot recover; but if cases of re.
covery under such circumstances have
ever occurred they are very rare, and It
is extremely doubtful if such a case has
ever occurred, for the coffee grounds
"black vomit" resembles coffee grounds
are supposed to be the stomach in a state
of dissolution, and it is not probable that
one can live after dissolution Of this or
gan sets in.
Tho cuts represent views in Jackson
vile and at Sand Hill. Camp Mitchell.
The city is constantly undergoing fumi-
CATION, and new patients are arriving at
the hospital. Jacksonville is a veritable
city OF death. f. A. NJ
Evening journal., 1888-09-18
WELL-KNoWN PERSONS.

Mrs Lucinda Fletcher of North Spring
field, Mass, has celebrated her lOOth
birthday
Miss Edgeworth wrote all her stories
in the common sitting room, surrounded
by the members Of the family.
Right Rev Bishop Dwenger Of Fort
Wayne and his secretary, Chancellor
Lang, viii sail for Rome September 20.
Miss L. A. Churchill, author of my
Girls, is the private secretary Of the
superintendent Of New England rail
road
Vernon Lee, the English author, is de-
cidedly masculine in appear anee and fond
Of sitting with her legs crossed and
smoking cigarettes.
Judge Bregy Of Philadelphia recently
instructed jury that 1t is not safe to
convict any one on the unsupported evi.
dence of a man who was drunk
The Prince of Wales has presented a
handsome gold;watch and chain to Chief
Inspector Charles Walker who is retir,
ing from the London police after ffty-one
years service.
Miss Lois NJ. Royce, the little school
teacher heroine of the Western blizzard
has received a pair of artificial feet 10
provide which teachers and others in
Boston contributed the means. and thew
have already proved wonderfully efficient.
Mrs. MacGahan, the widow of the
famous correspondent whose accounts az
the Bulgarian atrocities had large share
in the work of changing the man of
southeastern Europe. has been summer
ing at Orr Island, on the coast Of Maine
Archbishop Ryan, Of Philadelphia. win
deliver the sermon at the consecra' iln of
Bishop elect John S. Foley at Baltimore
on Sunday, November 4, Cardinal Gibbons
will oifciate, assisted by Bishop Lough.
lin. Of BROOKLYN and Bishop Wadhams. Of
Ogd snsburg, n Y.
DR. J. /. Forwood. of Chester. Pa. a
Democratic Hopper, has been assigned
by the Republican National Committee
to speak through New York and New
Jersey during the campaign. Last even
ing the doctor addressed Repu blican
! ma 6 meeting at Lambertville, n. J.
Evening journal., 1888-09-18
Enrineersi Sweelhearts.

Nearly every engineer on the New
York and New England railroad has a
sweetheart or wife in New Britain, Conn.
Every train would whistle salute to
some fair dame and the din grew so
fearfully splitting that the author es
had II stopped and forbade the whistlng
within town limits. Daily Paper.
It's noon when Thirty-dve is due.
An she comes on time like a flash Of light
An you hear ser whistle "rOO-tec-tool"
Long fore the pilot swings IN sight.
bill Alaudon,s driNin' her in to-day.
And he's callin his sweetheart far away,
Gertrude llurd lives down by the mill,
Aoumight see her bushes; she knows its
"ru-diel Toot-eel Tu-diel rur'
six five a. m. there's n local comes
Makes up at Bristol runnin' east,
An the way her whistle sings and huns
Is a livin' caution to man an beast.
Every one knows who Jack White calls
Little Lou Woodbury. down By the Falls:
summer or winter, always the same,
she hears her lover callin her name
"Lou-ie Lou-iel Lou-ie! Lou!n
But at one iifty-four, old Sixty-four-
Boston Express, runs east clear through
browns her rattle and rumble and roar
With the softest whistle that ever blew.
An away on the farthest edge of the town,
Sweet sue WinthrOp's eyes OF brown
shine like the starlight, bright and clear.
When she hears the whistle Of Abel Gear
NOu-Ou, Su-u-u-ue!M
Along at midnight freight comes in.
Leave Berlin some time-l don't know
but u rumbes along with fearful din
I'LL ~ reaches the switch there and then
Inc clearest hottest Of the SOftcst bell
Ever out out OF q braHcn goblet fell
Wake Nellie Mintnn out OF her dreams
To her like a wedding bell IL seams
'Nelll Nell Nelil Nell! Nelll Nellr'
Daylight shines when the mail goes by,
THROWN the hurryin' miles away,
Catches the mail on the lightning fly.
And drives a streak through the breaking
day.
Tom Wilson rides on the rght-hand side.
6iNin' her steam at every stride,
An he touches the whistle low am clear
For Lulu Gregg on the hill TO hear
'l.u In. Lu-lu, Lulu,"
SO il goes on an day an an night.
Til the old folks have voted the thing
bore
Old maids and old bachelors say it amt right
For folks TO do courtin' with such rear.
But the engineers their hisscs will blow
from whistle valve to the girls they
know;
An the stokers the names of their sweet
hearts tell
With ne Beiiei Nell Dent Of the swaying
bell.
Robert j. Burdette.
Ardnore, Pa, January ., 1886
Evening journal., 1888-09-18
ABOUT YELLOW JACK.
ONE WHO LIVED THROUGH 1T DE-
ScRlBES THE DISEASE.

Days Of Uncertainty as TO His Own Fate
and That Of His Friends--The Cenvales-
cent Period-Getting weil-The Fever at
Jacksonville, Fla
Jacksonville, Fla, is just now a center
Of interest from the yellow fever raging
there. The disease has taken such a
strong hold that its ravages will doubt
less not cease till black frost" ITEM
perature 82 degs. or below comes and kills
it. After this once appears yellow fever
cannot exist. Having had the disease |
can best give an idea Of its course by not
ing my own experiences.
was sitting, one October afternoon, on
a veranda in South Carolina when | ex-
perienced a slight chill This was fol
lowed by another and another till morn
ing, when | suddenly threw every thing
off my stomach. About the same time /
was attacked with terrific backache.
No pain ! ever suffered was SO severe.
l lay that night tossing with the fever.
It was long dreary night, which, it
seemed 10 me, would never end; but the
next morning was better. and my doctor,
who was not quite certain Of whot nv
trouble was, told me to keep quiet and he
thought | would be all right. But the
fever came back IN force, and began to
Yomit continuously.
Evening journal., 1888-09-18

active rs a man of 10. Next TO him the
most remarkable instance Of good pres
ervati0n is his sister, Mrs. Rebecca Green.
who lives with her son-in-law, Jacob
Smith, near this borough, and who was
80 years old last Sunday. She was always
delicate women, her parents having
lived when she was little in malariai
district IN Lancaster county, where her
health was impaired. but she is still in
fair physical health and her mind is as
active and clear as it ever was She sews
and knits and reads, and can get about
without troubling any one.
Evening journal., 1888-09-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A fsherman's sales are all net profits.
Buoher. Painter, 4O6 Shirley street

A fisherman's sales are all net profits.
Bucher' Painter, 4O6 shipley street.
The Prince of Wales is ON exbibi.
tion at the foot of Fulton street He
weighs fulton and half
Bueher, Sign Painter, 4O6 shipley St.
None of our Atlantic liners can he
called sea fortresses, but most of them
carry good strong hold.
Trunks and Harness, bottom prices al
Yergers. 81
The rapid passage of steamer denends
not only on the working of its screw bnt
ON the working of its crew.
Go to Yerger's for trunks, 4O7 Shiplev
Strange as it may seem. a ship's can.
tain is all the better liked by the passep.
gers If he is known to be wreck less.
Gliding on glass, 4O6 Shipley street.
We have often heard of "storm n.
brewing but didn't care for the liquor
it brewed.
Show Cards, Bucher, 406 Shiplev st.
A vessel resembles a prisoner when
she is put in a dock, a witness when she
IS bound to a-pier and Judge when she
makes her trial trip.
Evening journal., 1888-09-18

sin, in 1871; returned to st. Paul; entered
the First National bank as clerk, and
three years later was made cashier of the
Merchants National. OF this bank he
subsequently became vice president and
then president.
In 1889 Mr.. Merriam was elected to the
legislature, was again elected in 1886, and
was made speaker of the house. He has
also been president of the State Agricul-
tural association.
Mr.. Merriam, from the time Of his col
lege days, when he wvs captain Of the
cricket eleven, has been interested in
athletic sports. He 10 a specimen Of
muscular Christianity, being an ardent
sportsman and q vestryman in his church.
He is also a contributor to religious socie-
ties and hospitals. In 1872 he married a
niece of Gen. w. S. Hancock.
Evening journal., 1888-09-18
WANAATAKER,S-

long wasted "Wanamaker. !"
has been chosen with the great
est care. We guarantee them
in all respects.
Chestnut street side, east Of Main Aisle.
20 inch Umbrellas, twilled
silk, paragon frame, "gold" or
silver caps, $2.25. Same, the
% inch, SAYS. Either is half
the usual selling price. A sec
ond lot.
Chestnut street side, with mems furnishings.
john WANAMAKER.
Evening journal., 1888-09-18
district Attorney FOLLOWS.

New York Herald.
Judge Barrett, fresh from his European
vacation, opened the Court of Oyer and
Terminer yesterday, but was compelled
TO adjourn it for week because there
were no cases ready for trial In view OF
the numerous pending indictments which
call for prompt prosecution the failure to
have any ready for trial on the opening of
the court shows a neglect for which there
is no gG2d excuse,
BY the way, are the Doodle trials to be
pushed or are they to be quietly droppedg
There used to be a good deal Of vigorous
talking on this subject even when there
was no action. But who has heard any
thing said about il Of later Even boast
ing seems to have given place TO a signi-
fieant silence.
Evening journal., 1888-09-18
Real Estate sales.

j.. Stanley Short has sold seventy acres
OF his Shawnee Tract" to Eli Donovan
for 81 700.
Walter Hammond has sold his appor-
tionment of his late fathers homestead
to his brotherin law, Seward Simpson.
for 81 800 II has new barn and other
improvements; the tract contains about
seventy acres of good land.-Milford
News and Advertiser.
Evening journal., 1888-09-18

his fat h er re-
moved with lis
family to the west
and settled in st.
Paul. Mr.. Aler
riam ~ the son -
has been a resi-
dent Of st. Paul
ever since. His
father was speak
er of the state
h on s Q Of repre-
sentatives in 1870
and 1871. William
was graduated at
the head of his
class at Racine
oolin~o NUfnno,,
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stairs with it, makes the effete and fat
chested dudes Of the capital city turn
green with envy. This porter is further
noted for the fact that no one has ever
seen him without most astonishing grin
on his ebony cOuntenance. His mouth
looks like coal mine, and when he
laughs he always draws q crowd. Clerks
from the treasury department up the
street rush in breathlessly and ask whats
the matter. He has known nearly all the
celebrated statesmen Of the past genera
tion, and is on terms of intimacy with
the leading Legislators of the present day.
1t is amusing to watch the air Of impor.
tance he assumes when Tom Reed, Of
Maine, buttonholes him and carries him
OF to a corner to talk politics-for the
fun of the thing. The witty Tom main.
tains most solemn demeanor all through
these discussions, and mods his head
gravely and says That's sow whenever
his African opponent makes a "strong
point. Sunset Cox, too, will occasionally
hold high converse with this favored
darky about the limitations Of the In.
finite, or some other equally light and
airy subject, and some of Cox's most
clever and best known sayings have been
overheard while the congressional Jester
has been guying this hotel porter.
This porter's name is rather hard to
remember, owing to its great length and
the wide field it covers. 1t is a cosmopol.
itan name, and covers ell ages and climes
something like Ezekiah Plato Henry
Clay Garibaldi Peter Johnson-called
zelIe for short Nobody who has been at
Willard can fail torecall him.
Evening journal., 1888-09-18
wAsHlNeToN's LARGEST MAN.

He Is Negro Porter, and Is on Good
Terms with All the Big Statesmen.
Wizards hotel, at Washington, has
one of the most unique hotel porters in
tho country veritable black Falstaff in
more ways than one.
He is almost as broad as he is long
weighs nobody knows how much, and Is
said to be the greatest man physically at
the capital. He has been unable to look
upon his knees for a good many years.
But he Is tremendously powerful, and the
case with which he shoulders a Saratoga
trunk and bounds lightly up four pairs Of
Evening journal., 1888-09-18

the manufacturer. It accomplishes his
wholesome work by taxing the foreign
grown and the foreign made article so
that the home product. which must ever
be produced at a higher cost for labor,
can enter into competition with it in our
own markets.
Evening journal., 1888-09-18
Fame castIe visit.

Fame Castle, No ., A. 0. X. Of the NJ
C. viii visit Fame Castle of Philadelphia
this evening. The lodge including the
officers Of the select castle, numbering
abe ut forty, win leave this city early this
evening. At the station in Philadelphia,
they viii be met by a committee from the
sister lodge and escorted to the lodge
ROOM
Evening journal., 1888-09-18

fore knew Of tseir death and before !
even knew that they were seriously In.
The value Of quinine as a preventive ia
indicated from the fact that of our party
one took daily doses Of whisky and qui-
nine, and though exposed in exactly the
same manner as the rest, the fever passed
him by. -
There seems to be little or no knowl-
edge acquired which would enable physi-
clans to cope successfully with yellow
fever. During the civil war a surgeon
IN the regular army who was attacked
with the disease, eschewing his brothers
Ia the profession, pat himself In the care
Evening journal., 1888-09-18
Nnr,en III nrinnesotn- r.ennl,lioan.

The man who has been selected by the
Minnesota Republicans as their candidate
for governor, William r. Merriam, is q
descendant from Scottish Highlanders.
He was born ia 1S49 ia the town Of Wad
hams Mills, Essex county, N. Y, little
hamlet az the time Of perhaps q thousand
inhabitants. When ho was 70 wears old
Evening journal., 1888-09-18

An infant went into spasms on hearing
the shril whistle Of a steamer ct Bull
locks Point, r. l., recently, and died in a
short time. The parents threaten TO sue
for damages, claiming that the whistling
was unnecessary.
Evening journal., 1888-09-18
strairl,t.

This world is not so bad world
rs some would like to make il,
SUI whether good or whether bad
Depends on how we take t''-Exchange
Evening journal., 1888-09-18

The best preserved man in this localitr.
says the kennett, Pa, Advance. is CYRUS
Chambers, who is s. years Old and as
Evening journal., 1888-09-18
Two Great Trotters.

Prince Wilkes s.nd Patron viii trot for
a purse Of $250O at Belmont Park, Phila.
delphia, on Thursday
Evening journal., 1888-09-18
Send Your Son and Daughter
Active at Ninetv-fire.

For a practical business education 20 the
Wilmington Commercial College.