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Evening journal., 1888-10-18
welL-KNowN PERSONS.

Mr. James Russell Lowell will sail for
home on November'22.
General Fitz John Porter says he takes
no interest in politics
Rear Admiral Luce had hard time on
his voyage in the little flagship Vixen.
Rev. DR.. Leonard of Washington, has
declined to become assistant bishop OF
Southern Ohio
Joseph Jefferson has more than 2, 900
head Of cattle, mostly thoroughbreds, on
his big Louisiana plantation.
Governor Ames, of Massachusetts,, has
recovered entirely from his recent Illness
aud has gone to Boston for the winter
The Princess Sophie Of Prussia is learn
ing Greek, and the Crown Prince of
Greece is helping her. They are to be
married
The Rev. William r. Alger will spend
the winter at his home in Boston but
will 90 to Newport every week TO preach
at the Charming Memorial Church.
The late Mrs. Burns Macdonald, men
toned by the Queen in her journal as
sole heiress and descendant Of the Mac
I NVlAAlAa ~ AAtitNItf WtA9 - AhaNliitAtstAE
little grand mother at the age Of 40, ex-
cessivcly fond Of dancing particularly
Vyaltzng) and beautiful embroiderer Of
her own evening dresses.
MI. Marshall p. Wilder tells that at q
biz reception in London he got into con
versation in corner with quiet, steady,
middle-aged gentleman, and Mr.. Wilder
dcplored the lack Of interest he felt ID
the crowds Of titled people around him.
n would rather talk to plain person
like yourself, he said, lin quiet fash
| Ion. than to the Duke Of Teck, who be-
| lieye is here And then they went on
| exchanging opinions about England and
America. Mr. Wilder found later on that
his quiet companion was the Duke Of
1eck himself
General Golf, the Republican candidate
for governor of West Virginia, is made Of
heroic stuff During the rebellion he was
taken prisoner and shut up in Libby
prison. Soon after, one Major Armsey,
a rebel, was captured and sentenced to be
put to death as a spy The rebel authori
ties threatened to take reprisal by hang
ing General Golf The latter heard of il
and wrote to President Lincoln: III
Major Armsey is guilty, he should be
executed, regardless of the consequences
to me The life Of single soldier nc
matter who he may be, should not stand
in the way of adherence to a great prin.
| chile
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g'Ihe wheat districts are indicated by w
in 1857 the range was II % to $105. and
in 1853 $1.20to $3.50, and the decline was
curiously coineident with the declining
yield per acre In 1854 there was a crop
exceeding all previous experience, vet
prices rose; and in 1865 aud 1866 fairly
good crops sold at the highest prices ever
realized. Even on n gold basis prices
were phenomenally high The largest
crop, proportional to population, ever
produced in the United States was in 1879;
yet prices ranged 20 per cent. higher than
the preceding year, and higher than in
any subsequent year with one exception.
The repeal of the British "corn laws"
In 1876, of course. gave an impulse to
American exports, and by 1850 the foreign
market became somewhat important; vet
the total of all agricultural exports was
but 1923, sos .609. The growth thereafter
was remarkably regular-the Crimean war
making no such difference as is generally
supposed and the American civil war
making very little-till 1873, then the
wheat export from the United States be-
gan to increase with a rapidity that set
all former calculations at naught, rising
till its volume exceeded $20O, 900 600 per
year, rising till in nine years the total ex
ceeded that Of all previous years since the
republic WIS established, aud the favor
able balance of trade" thus created went
near to 81 900, 600, O00i In lS73-s2. in
elusive, one fourth of the total exports
from the United States were Of wheat
and flour, aud the grand aggregate may
be set in round numbers at I. 200 600 900
bushels. It was the farmers wheat that
made specie resumption easy and created
the Flush times" Of 1S79-g3. And then
began that extraordinary development in
other countries which must now las care
fully studied.
India, for the purposes Of this inquiry,
means British India; and in that depend
sency the British have constructed some
10000 miles Of railway and many canals,
both for navigation and irrigation. 1t is
surprise, indeed, TO learn that there are
in one tract about 10000 square miles of
land capable Of producing wheat that can
be made productive by canals now III pro
cess Of construction. and that at the very
time there was q famine on one side of
India wheat and rice on tho other side
went to waste for mere want Of transpor-
tation. II is clearly demonstrated that
the land already under the pillow in India
can furnish abundant food for the total
population and wheat for export to the
value Of $780, 900, coo. and that the British
are fast supplying the means of transpor-
tation, which was all that was lacking
Add to this the fact that 125. 900 square
miles Of good land in that country are still
undeveloped, and the possibilities Of its
wheat export VIII be plain.
Other statisticians estimate that when
the proposed canals are completed, India
can easily expert oyer 200.O09. 600 bushels
q t.--e--~--.--i .-.... k4osaNeI OA a loltlle
sell By men who work for eight cents Der
Evening journal., 1888-10-18

day, and transported to England at cost
but six cents bushel greater than from
the American coast.
The Argentine Republic is a new ex-
porter of wheat, though Chill has been
known in that line to Americans since it
supplied the first miners in California;
but the Republic contains COO, 600 square
miles and less than 5000, 900 people. and
is increasing its grain product with aston
ishins rapidity. Between 1850 and 1879
the exports increased more than four fold
in quantity and six fold in value Yet
wheat was scarcely mentioned in them be-
fore 1875. Then the development became
surprisingly rapid. Six extensive rail
road lines are in operation, and the scenes
as they advance upon tue plains are much
like those seen IN the opening of farms
and building of towns along the various
Pacific railways. Over 800 600 600 Of
British capital have been invested in a
few years, and 10000 Scotch and Irish
have located in a single state of the Re
public. In a report to the home eogern-
ment on their condition the Irish. seven
years ago, returned the sheep owned by
them at 30 100000.
Australia's possibilities Of wheat export
are equally undetermined. but known to
be immense OF northwestern Canada, it
is hardly possible to assign a limit that
win seem reasonable. Last year fine
wheat was grown in the valley Of Peace
river In latitude So; the plains Of the
Saskatchewan have l,slg been proved
capable of heayy yield, and in the
small province Of Manitoba are "a. COO
square miles Of land not surpassed in
the world for unbroken fertility and capa.
Bile Of producing as high an average Of
whes1 as the best lands Of Minnesota and
Dakota The wheat IS Of the hard Scotch
Fyife' variety. greatly sought after by
the millers of England and usually bring
ing few cents more per bnshel than
wheat grown farther south. In short it
may confidently be stated that with the
introduction Of American plows and reap
ers, the present wheat growing countries
Of the world could, in a very few years,
increase their exports more than five foldl
And this leaves entirely out Of the &C.
Evening journal., 1888-10-18

100000 by excessive and untimely
rains. So complete was the dis
enlargement that tho wheat acre
age Of the United Kingdom decreased
from 3, $50, T67 acres in 1674.to 2.967 O59
In lSSl-more than 50 per cent. In many
instances farm laborers harvested wheat
IN rubber boots, and spread the harvest
on hnmmocks and scaffolding to dry be-
tween showers. The results to the
United States are most eloquently told in
these figures:
From 1880 TO 1890 the United States
exported 95e, $50, 092 bushels of wheat,
and Of this total, 667 ,429, sol bushels,
more than two. birds, were exported in
the ten years ending 1880, and two-thirds
OF that, nearly half of the whole, 443,-
4lO,425 bushels, were sent in the last FIVE
years. II short, the exports in those FIVE
years We're more than 90 per cent. greater
than IN the forty years from 1880 to 1870.
Though British crops improved, the area
Of wheat growing had been so reduced by
the discouraged farmers that the i'm
mense American export continued some
years longer -.
1t may interest American farmers to
learn also that they have not attained to
anything like the possible yield per acre;
Tor even in the notably bad years the
British averaged a fraction over eighteen
bushels per acre, as in ordinary years
they average thirty, Some Of the states
OF Germany average thirty two, one year
with another, or enough to bread six per-
sons, assuming az ordinary supply Of
veGetahlas. ] II READIn
Evening journal., 1888-10-18
PENINSULA NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Charles II. Griffith Of Duck Creek has
raised 5000 head Of cabbage on one aero
of land.
Mrs Henry p. Massey, living near
Smyrna, fell down stairs on Monday
morning and was found in helpless
condition. Since then her body below the
chest has been paralyzed and her recov
cry is awaited with intense anxiety.
Frank Collins, 1t is stated. has this
week sold Collins Beach TO New York
man for s., 800 The purchaser expects
to fit it up ard run an excursion boat
there this summer Mr. Collins reserved
the land north of the beach property.
Smyrna Times
Granville b. Gillespie died in Dover
Monday afternoon Of injuries received at
Elkton on October /, the day before the
odening Of the fair At the time he was
driving Delaware Bashaw on the track
and collided with another sulky coming
the opposite direction. He was about Al
years odd and commonly known al
Buck, being the driver of Sherman
Morgan several years ago and later dur
ing the Dover fair of jeff Fords horse
l. X. 4. He left a wife, but no children
Evening journal., 1888-10-18


incidentally it may be well to contrast
this with the very limited area for corn
(maize) la all Europe the area suitable
for maizo scarcely equals that of the
smallest western state - Indiana In
America the ares Of corn growing, with
any good result, is certainly less than
half that of wheat In India corn can be
grown, but only under FAVORABLE circum-
stances. OF Australia and the Argentine
Republic the same may be said Wheat
is grown with case and in enormous guam.
titles. without irrigation, ia such regions
as California, where not a drop Of rain
falls from May till October; but corn
never. In short, It may with confidence
be affirmed that the possible corn lands cf
the world are not one fifth probably not
e-tenth) the possible wheat lands, and
that the great central belt Of American
states, from the line Of southern Tonnes
see to that Of northern Indiana, have in
this an advantage not threatened as are
the wheat growers to the north or the
cotton growers te the south CT them. The
export of cotton from India has already
reached !, 600 900 bales.
in the huTly burly Of American politics,
from the paaicof 1878 to the boom" OF
1S79-S1, and the heated discussions OF
soft money" and 'hard money, no one
observed the tremendous forces working
in Europe to "help out" the Americans;
yet IL is a fact that in those years the Old
World was literally compelled to re&urn
much of the gold exported during The
civil war, and a moiety of the bonds ex-
ported after the war. in payment for food
supplies. 1t was fact, conclusively proved
before parliamentary commission, that
the five years Of 1S78-79, inclusive, were
the worst five years ever known in the
history Of British agriculture, and that
England and France together had to sm
port in that period over 81 500, 600, 00(
worth Of grainl Sir James Card summar
ICES the testimony taken by the commits
sion very carefully. and demonstrates
that the British farmers lost $500.
Evening journal., 1888-10-18
Henry winter Davis and '.The Boys.v

Nc man was more fastidious personally
that Henry Winter Davis, and yet it YVES
remarkable, how in spite of his aristo-
cratic bearing, the boys" stood by and
admired him. One day Joe Edwards and
a lot of the boys over on Federal Hill
called at his Office to invite him to make
a speech that evening in the Fifteenth
ward. Davis saw the gang coming and
remarked to a friend
H m Some of the roughs are after
me Well my friends, what dc you
want2"
The crowd stated their case with the
assurance; Were all good Know Moth
ings down there, Mr.. Davis
Very well, I'll be on hand Good
day
Good day" meant what it said. and
the boys knew that Davis had no
further business with them and retired
at once.
That evening Davis left a dinner party
at his house to fulfill his engagement
lie went down to Federal Hin in full
evening dress, with soft hat on his
head and carrying "a small cane in his
pearl-colored gloved hands
Imagine such thing newadavsl
When Davis reached the hall Stockett
Mathews was speaking, bnt the cheers
for Davis We're So deafeniRg that Mathews
had TO step aside. Davis first laid down
his cane upon the desk, aud placed his
soft hat top down over it. Then he pro
ceeded with his speech lesupaly re-
moving his pearl colored kids as he pro
crossed When he get through he picked
Up his gloves. replaced them, donned his
soft hat and retired amid the widest kind
,sf enthusiasm
Evening journal., 1888-10-18
wANAMAKER,s.


PHILADELPHIA. Thursday, Oct. Is, 1888.
With Dress Stuffs piling the
tops Of shelving high out of
reach, what can we do in the
papers more than take down
here and there a representative
stuff and give you its story?
We mention one, it means
hfties or hundreds SO far as
high quality for little money
goes.
The cheapest Side Band
Dress Goods in the market.
Cloth weight, foule serge, 4
neat designs, each in 10 color
ings. Modest, but rich, 75c.
A good share of the fashion
able world is getting into the
Side Band stuffs.
Heavy, wiry serge, plump
so inches, a dozen proper
shades, soc. AS good wearing
value for the money as we ever
gave.
40 inch" Colored Cash
mere, from one of the best
in the world, soc. The
CSC kind of a week or so ago
75c d few seasons back.
Rich, medium weight Broad !
Evening journal., 1888-10-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Kilrain is the only man who viii fight
for money
Go to Yerger's for trunks, 407 Shipley.
The most natural thing in Virginia is
the natural bridge
Trunks and Harness, bottom prices at
YergerS
For ladies or gents fine shoes all the
styles known, order from r. d, Gates.
See advertisement
Evening journal., 1888-10-18
NEWSPAPER OPINION.
The rutiIe rhirn Party.

Smyrna Times.
There is considerable difference in reIa-
ton Of temperance to politics in Delaware
between this and the campaign two wears
ago. Then there was but one Of the old
parties in the field. It manifested no dis.
position to yield anything TO either
temperance or constitutional re-
form The situation made it
the opportunity and necessity for
persons holding these two subjects as
paramount. to form party for their adj
vocaey The party while II poll I'd very
respectable vote was in a hopeless mi
nority. The campaign was, however. not
without fruit, for a strong sentiment was
voiced that could not fail Of making an
impression on the politicians. Its echo
for constitutional reform were heard by
adj parties, as was shown by the very
large vote for a new constitution subse-
quently. and now every party and faction
OF a party are pronounced for il.
The other and stronger feature ia IFS
moral aspect has also been taken ont Of
It's state ot orphanege and adopted hv
AaAs AAerdDiaes.ll party siIcn Ia the .1lusD
@uthoritiye way has proclaimed the prin-
Evening journal., 1888-10-18
THURSDAY. OCTOBER IS. 1850.
THE Dover Index, the organ Of jaime

TIE Dover Index, the organ Of James
L. Wolcott, Esq, deyotes nearly two
columns TO the Wolcott Democratic meet
ing held at Milford last Saturday. A
Salisbury Democrat who is an office
holder solemnly assured an EVENING
Journal reporter two days ago that
there We're only ninetys Six men,
women and children" at the alleged
meeting. Another gentleman, Repub-
hcan who is not yet voter assured
us that he saw only fifty persons in
the crowd Ono might have fired
Salisbury shot gun into this ASSEM-
blage' without hitting voter. The
Index Is wasting valuable space, and SO
ARE we
Evening journal., 1888-10-18

allied the fact that they no longer hold
the controlling forces in the wheat mar
kets of the world. Russia and Hungary
they had long recognized as standing
rivals IN the markets Of western Europe;
but between 1878 and 1884 enormous SUP.
plies Of the great cereal began to pour in
from India and Australia, northwestern
Canada and the Argentine Republic. OF
all these India excited the most astonish-
ment The western world had long looked
upon it as a worn out land and its people
as eitete; the export of $40, 000 bushels Of
wheat one year was noted in the Ameri-
can papers as a curiosity, and that of
1000, 600 bushels in 1916 as phenome-
non. But the next year midas export
was 100000 bushels, and then, save in
the famine years of 1850, it doubled
and trehled year by year, till in 1852 it
reached the enormous aggregate Of 81
100000 bushels, completely setting at
naught all the market calculations al the
western world.
The American farmer had already had
a puzzling experience with wheat. Down
to 1876 that cereal had followed the
usual law of being cheap when the crop
was large, and vice versa; and so much
do habits of mind control most men that
II nus taken fOfty years experience to
show that wheat Is a marked exception
to that rule. Only one year since 1848
has an enormous crop in the United
States conceded with a very low price,
and only once a very poor crop with a
very high price; in every other case the
best crop years have been the best price
years. The explanation IS simpler as a
rule when there is a very favorable sea
son on one side Of the globe, there Is a
rather unfavorable one on the other; and
since 1916 the price Of wheat in western
Europe has fixed the price in America
Of this paradox, that increased supply
does not decrease prices, few instances
may DO cited. The year 1864 was memoir
able in the Chic valley for the largest
wheat crop ever produced down to that
time and for drought that reduced the
corn crop below the demand for home
consumption. When, therefore, al a
bushel was offered in the west in July, il
was naturally attributed to the scarcity of
corn; but wheat went en- rising till it
reached $3.50 in New York city and a
corresponding price in the Ohio valley.
In 1855 the range In New York was from
Sl.06 to $3.50, and the Crimean war was
popularity assigned as the sole csuse But
Evening journal., 1888-10-18
The Ola sampler.

Out Of the way, in a corner
or our dear old attic room,
Where lunches of herbs from the hillside
shake ever a faint perfume,
An Oaken chest is standing
With hasp and paddock and key,
Strong rs the hands that made ii
On the other side of the sea.
When the winter days are dreary,
And were out Of heart and life,
Or its crQwding cares aweary,
And sick of its restless strife,
We take a lesson ia patience
From the attic corner dim
Where the chest still holds its treasure
warden faithful and grim.
Robes Of an antique fashion.
Linen and lace and silk
That time has tinted with saffron.
Though once they were white as milk
Wonderful baby garments
'BrOdcred with loving care
t3y fingers that felt the pleasure
AS they wrought the ruilies fair.
A sword, with the red rust on il,
That flashed In the battle tide
When from Lexington to Yorktown
SQrely mems souls We're tried;
a plumed chapcau and a buckle
And many a relic tine.
And all by itself the sampler
Framed IN with berry and vine.
Faded The square Of canvas.
And dim IS the siiken thread,
But think Of the white hand dimped
For here in cross and in tent stitch,
In a wreath Of berry and vine.
She worked 1t q hundred wears age
elizabeth, aged nine.n
In and out in the sunshine
The little needle flashed.
And in and out on the rainy day.
When the merry drops down FLASHED.
AS close she sat by her mother.
The little Puritan maid,
And did her piece on the sampler
While the other children played.
You are safe in the beautiful Heaven,
Elizabeth, aged ninef
But before You went Won had troubles
sharper than any OF mine.
On, the gold hair turned with sorrow
White as the driftod snow,
And your tears dropped here, where I'm
standing
On this very plumed chapeau.
When you put il away, its wearer
Would need il never more.
/ BY sword-thrust Tearing the secrets
God keeps suiyonder shore;
/ And you wore your grief like glory,
l0u could not yield supine.
/ VINO wrought IN your patient childhood,
Elizabeth. aged nine'
Out Of the way IN n corner
With hasp and paddock and kew
stands the uakcn chest % nay father.
Ihat came from over the sea:
| And the hillside herbs above It
shake odnrs fragrant and fine
And here on its lid is a garland
70 Elizabeth. aged nine"
Evening journal., 1888-10-18

WHO drag the reluctant pillow through
tough and stubborn burrows, mules who
strain painfully up steep mountain sizes
under unwieldy packs, love and need the
regularly recurring rest of the quie
Seventh day. 1t is hard to appreciate
truly the estimable value Of this precious
Sunday to the world at large The
French after the reign of terror had
turned their brains, tried to abolish it.
but in vain. They could not live without
it, It is an imperative physical necessity
as well as an invaluable moral and relig
ious help.
Evening journal., 1888-10-18

The bazaar under the auspices of the
ladies' Of Second Baptist Church opened
last evening in tho basement Of the
church. The committee Of arrangements
comprises Mrs. n. b. Danforth. Mrs.
William 6. Jones. Mrs. c. +. Wollaston.
Mrs. w. 3. Adams, Miss Sidney Wells.
Miss May |. Heath, Miss Ford. Miss Mary
Almond, Miss Lizzie Stroud The apron
table, fancy article stand. candy stand
and restaurant are in charge of the above
mentioned ladies' The music is in charge
Of J. D. kurtz, Jr. The Sunday school
children Of the church will be admitted
free this afternoon. The bazaar will be
continued this evening.