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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05

gotten gains are gradually diminishing
before the advance Of societies and organi
cations that give protection at cost,
thereby depriving their agents of the
opportunity to reap commission of 80
per cent of every member insured. The
Order of Tonti is not an insurance COM
pany in any sense. The order simply
promises to give you certain amount Of
money in case of sickness and a fixed
amount at the expiration of seven
years, providing the holder com
plies with his part of the compact.
The order never promised to give any
man 81 600 by the payment of $3.50 OF
$500. But it does promise to give every
holder of a certificate the amount named
at cost, aud not cent more will it cost.
Certainly an organization that does
| that is not a very bad concern. Iron Hall
is now. nearly eight years old and the first
years certificates are now nearly all paid
off at cost to the holder of less than
| $500. Has any certificate ever matured
in the order of the Iron Hall that has not
been paid2 Has any brother ever been
| incapacitated in Iron Hall or TOnti that
has been denied his benefit No. not
one. The Record says that Tonti should
not continue business because she Is
drawing from and weakening other good
beneficial orders. Oh yes, that Tonti is
| getting all the recruits. All there's the
rub This is great argument from a
| great paper like the Record. If the Order
of Tonti, in the light of increased knowl-
edge, has constructed plan 50 much
more desirable than these older societies
and as a result the masses are coming in
and neglecting the others, certainly this
can be no ground of intelligent objection
Now apply the same line of reasoning
TO the Records beneficient coal enter
prise. Would anybody claim that the
Record should be forbidden the right Of
selling coal because il has made such in
| ducements TO the people that almost
everybody is buying coal of it, A great
cry went up from the old dealers that it
was a fraud and could not be done But
the Record went on selling, and the
| people found il very good coal, and they
have kept on buying while the old deal
ers continued to veil fraud
What nonsense to argue thus, because
a new fraternal society comes into the
field with advanced ideas and plans, all
| in the interest of the members, and
because Of the superiority over all other
and older plans 1t must be wiped out of
existence, otherwise some of the others
will be injured. We cannot believe for
a moment such a senseless proposition.
The great growth of the Order of Tont
in so short a time only proves more
firmly the truth of the law of the sur
vival of the iittest. FRATER
Wilmington, Del. February 5, 1889.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05
weLL-kNowN PERSONS.

Senators Morrill, (Vermont) and Sher-
man Ohio both entered Congress in
1854, and probably outrank any other
Americans in point of continuous service
in public life.
Parker Pillsbury, the veteran Adolf
ZIONIST leciured in Boston recently
Conversationally he expressed the opinion
that efforts to INTRODUCE prohibitory
law effected by a political movement
rather than as the result of public senti.
ment cannot produce much good
Charles B. Holmes, of Chicago, is be-
lieved to control more street car lines
and miles than anybody else He is presi.
dent of a syndicate that owns all the
lines in indianapolis and of a Chicago
company that owns 1000 cars, besides
having great wealth invested in other
cities in Iowa and California.
A Lynchburg (Va.) ieweler has comnle-
ted badge which is to be worn by Miss
Winnie Davis, daughter Of the Hon. JEFF
ferson Davis. II is Kappa Sigma badge,
and viii be presented TO her in pursuance
of resolutions adopted at the last conclave
of the fraternity held in Atlanta The
badge is a beautiful star and crescent,
lully leWtleu Win uldmOnuS ana ruDleS,
with pretty attachments ofpin and chain.
Ex-Vice- President Thomas M. King, of
the Baltimore and Ohio, was in Baltimore
yesterday, and he left in the afternoon.
He declined to discuss the matter of his
return as second vice-president of the
company and he told acquaintance who
met him that he was not in a position to
say anything about it. In railroad
circles, however, it is believed that the
appointment of Mr.. King will be laid be-
fore the board of directors at their
February meeting.
Mrs. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen,
widow Of the late Fix Secretary of State
Frelinghuysen died at her home in New
ark early Sunday morning. She was a
daughter Of Mr.. George Griswold, a
wealthy New York merchant, who was
engaged in the China trade The de-
ceased lady was over seventy-two years
of age and of most affectionate and at
tractive nature. She was brilliant
entertainer, especially in Washington,
where so many years of her life was spent.
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wANAMAKER,s.
pHr1ApEIrHIA. Tuesday. Feb.

PHILADELPHIA. Tuesday. Feb. ;. 1889.
If they are not IS per cent.
off value-other peoples value
then we give up our guess
an Silks.
We mean the Black Surahs,
the 90 inches wide sort, at IS
cents, we'll worth ST, and the
other sort, % inches wide, at
los cents, equally worth S.
cents.
They have been fetching the
higher prices. The lower prices
are no fetch to CANNON with
or myth to mystify, but facts,
hard facts, worth all your Black
Surah faith.
Lock-stitch a Faille Fran.
caise and there will be no slip.
ping seams; when this is done
the service makes them popu-
lar. That's why SO many are
sold. A big lot of Blacks now
here. The price-scale, ST. to
$3.50, rising by regular grada-
ton. We made a big buy to
close a foreign account, which
gives a price-pull of IS cents
to 81 yard. And that is all
the way from 2oto 40 per cent.
to the good for you.
We crow for the real Shang-
hal. Honest for once is the
heather Chinee, and he beats
out the French Foulard.
Our India Silks produced by
Art and Nature, brought by
Commerce. We have said
boastful things of them-not
vaingloriouS. We boast more
each day as the choice grows
greater of the styles exclusively
our own.
Come look on them in the
first coming brightness. The
widths "a to % inches. The
nricee * cents TO Six The
patterns IT. types cannot tel
them, nor the colors.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05
Chinese Ghost Lore.

In various parts of China there is a belief
that the souls Of very atrocious criminal:
who have either been executed or died in
prison are sent back from hades by Yenlo
the judge there, to undergo a further term
Of Imprisonment, one death not being enough
TO expiate their crimes. When the second
term Of Imprisonment is adjudged to have
expired the district magistrate beseeches the
tutelary deity Of the city to accompany him
to the prison in order to acquaint the ghos
with his release. The order is supposed tC
reach the imprisoned by burning it, cere
mony which is solemnly carried out in the
jail-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05
POLITICAL JOKES.

1t is noticeable that the courtesy of the
Senate is not sufficiently large to permit
of the confirmation of any man who did
not contribute to Republican campaign
funds. -Milwaukee Journal
A great many Republicans are skating
on very thin ice nowadays. When they
go through, as very many of them must,
since there are hardly Offices enough to
go round, they will not fall into the
water, but into-the soup.-New York
Herald.
The Republican members of the United
States Senate hold that ''owingto peculi
arities of the people of New Mexico the
Territory is not yet fitted for admission
to the Union" The popularity to which
the Republicans especially object is thai
the New Mexicans have always shown
tendency to vote the Democratic ticket. =
| N. Y World.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05
The Herald in London.

The publication of London edition of
the New York Herald is an event in jour
nalism OF more than ordinary in
terest. It has become so common that
it no longer excites special remark for a
new play or a new book to be produced
simultaneously on each side of the At
lantic, but the Herald is the first and
only instance of one newspaper appearing
daily in three different cities, and these
cities so widely separated as New York,
London and Paris. There is. Of course,
a difference in size and make up, but the
three editions appear under one name
and are, to all intents and purposes one
newspaper. John Russell Young is il
Europe. and is, presumably, assisting Mr.
Bennett in the publication of the LondoI
and Paris editions.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05

THE Panama Canal Company was dis
solved in Paris on yesterday and an Off
cial nquidator appointed to settle its
affairs. BY persistent laundering this
scheme has been finally forced to an in
evitable collapse in spite Of the name and
fame of NJ. de Lssseps. The wiles used
to uphold the scheme in France were
vicious in the extreme. The victims are
very numerous and usually of the poorer
classes. The attempt to push the scheme
in this country is not creditable to thos,
who were engaged in it, and Thompson
Of Indiana, an ex-Secretary of the Navy
under Hayes, cannot be commended fol
receiving an annual salary of $25, 900 al
one of the promoters.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05
Dangerous Vegetables.

There is light at last on a subject Of vast
Importance to all vegetable eaters 1t seems
that green vegetable is as surely injurious
to health as green fruit But cooking will
generally render a fruit harmless. while it
will not do 50 for a vegetable A recent case
Of wholesale poisoning Of French soldiers
was traced to the solanine in unripe potatoes
This esculent is poisonous more often than 4
supposed. If dug before maturity the tuber
is by no means safe. But far worse is it to use
potato for food that has, after being dug,
been exposed to the light for any length OF
time. They should be stored in the dark as
soon as dug. If bitter they should never be
eaten. The more discoveries are made as to
our health and to our sanitary needs the less
we sem near to true knowledge of the best
conditions FOR sustaining health and life.
st. Louis Globe Democrat
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05
He whipped the wooden Indian.

Patrick Buckley, % years old, of No. s44
Tenth avenue, was gloriously drunk on
Saturday night as he faced the wooden
Indian figure in front.of John H. Michels's
cigar and barber store at No SAB Ninth
avenue Buckley, after swearing at the
Indian, struck the figure a blow in the
face that made it fall backward and crash
through the show glass. He then
shouted for police, and wanted to have
the 'Indian" arrested. Officer Downey,
however, arrested Buckley on Michels's
complaint. When the case appeared
before Justice O'Reilly at jefferson
Market Court yesterday Michels with.
drew his charge, and as the officer had no
complaint to make Buckley was dis.
charged. Philadelphia Press
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05
A Trying old Man,

The children of Adolphus D. Hunt, Of
Norton, Mass, are in the middle of a
family quarrel and are trying to have a
guardian appointed for the octogenarian.
Among other proofs Of insanity it was
alleged that he repeated the scenes of the
crucifxion, using dead pig that'he fed
his chickens with sawdust and sowed the
same substance instead of grass; that he
went TO church in his shirt sleeves,
although deacon, and that with a shovel
for a sceptre he announced himself
'King Of Norton But when put on
the witness stand he surprised everybody
by his keen perception and fresh memory.
Baltimore Sun.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05

Our household includes an aggravated cat
It is cat marked with idiosyncras es, and q
great many of them She is familiarly known
to the family as the "Lunatic,n but any one
Of dozen other names would hit her as
hard. She likes attention, does Kitty. and
will have it or know why. She takes every
peal Of the door bell as a personal summons
to come to the fore, and no housemaid proves
agile enough to intercept her course Once
inside the reception room she is mistress OF
the situation. Suddenly emerging from her
retreat, she will utter an ear piercing
m-e-a-owl delivered in a sharp staccato and
dash across the room, as If going to a fire.
Returning, at short intervals she repeats the
experiment till she makes a sensation. She
Likes also to call around during the night
watches. When the locking up process be-
gins she dashes to concealment a hackneyed
and thoroughly catty trick, with no claim to
originality. but If you find her you are lucky,
and If you catch her you are luckier still.
She has better things in mind than a night
spent outside, or even down cellar She
waits until the dread small hours, when, il
you are ever to sleep. you are soundly sleep
ing, and then she comes to your room and
calls you like the trump of Gabriel-and call.
again, and keeps calling. SO does your sons
Of duty. and you pull your senses together
and do some calling in return. Silence reigns
but your ears ring with her serenade; it wal
no dream, so you get up and illuminate the
house. The portiere system favors her She
has long range. You hunt and coax anc
call, but no kitty appears. 1t Is her LITTLE
joke. In the daytime you know where to fine
her. Bars and bolts wouldn't keep her out o.
your very best parlor. There are warmer
hooks, and, to your liking, cozier; but a par
Tor is a parlor, and ones dignity is worth
something So there reclines all day Nine
Pussy, the Lunatic, with method in her mad
ness She is Of fair complexion, in goot
health, excellent spirits, and for sale at 4
bargain. Boston Commonwealth.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05

Jonathan Alexander the old Waterloo
pensioner who died in Edinburgh re-
Gently. was one of the guards of the fallen
Emperor in st. Helena, and used to tell
a curious story of Napoleon's heart hay
ing been nearly carried off by rat after
the post norton examination. The sur
geon who conducted the investigation,
after placing the heart in an open glass
vessel, happened to fall asleep. During
the snooze the choice morsel was lighted
upon by rat. which was in the act of
carrying it off when the doctor fortu-
nately awoke and recovered the stolen
treasure. Pail Mall Gazette.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05
Perfectly Awful


Baltimore sun.
Would il not be perfectly awful If
General Harrison should turn out to be
another Cleveland, and keep the workers
who claim 20 have elected him cooling
their heels for months and months out
side the government Offices A peculiar
rage has animated many politicians dur
ing the last four years. They have con
sumed with indignation that the consti-
tutional fction-for they so consider it,
Of the South being in the Union
ON an equality with other states
should be allowed to work out in practice
in the election of a Democratic President
For an electoral majority composed mainly
Of the votes of Southern States they
have had no respect 1t was a scandal in
their eyes that Southern men should have
been included in a cabinet and Democrats
placed on the supreme bench The last
four years have been to them a terrible
nightmare, from which they are agreeably
aroused by the success Of the "fat" cam.
paign in November The offices now
they believe are at last TO go to theil
rightful owners. But II Harrison should
turn out to be another Cleveland
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05

THE capitol at Dover is neither com
modious nor beautiful. The state de-
partments should have ample and suita-
BILE quarters for public business, for
records and for the preservation Of books
and papers. II is false economy to delay
building new capitol and laying out
ample and beautiful grounds
when they are already needed
II the bill making the appropriation were
passed by the present Legislature the
capitol would probably not be completed
in less than three or four years. and by
that time the discomfort and faults Of the
presen building would be exaggerated
to an insupportable degree AS a matter
Of pride, too, the state officers should be
comfortably and handsomely housed and
the records and new books should be
made absolutely safe
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05
California Excursions.

Excursions to Colorado and Pacific
Coast Points will be run January 10th
and Goth, and February 18th and Goth,
via B. g. o. X. r. Passengers purchas-
ing second-class tickets win be furnished
free accommodations in Reclining Chair
Sleeping Car to Kansas City, and in
Sleeping Car from thence to destination.
AS the number of passengers for each
excursion is limited, those who oontem-
plate going should communicate at once
with any of the following agents, viz;
d. Bride, Passenger Agent, B. q o.
Central Building, Baltimore, Md.
H. A. Miller, Passenger Agent, b. g. o.
Depot. Wilmington, Del
Lyman McCarty, Ticket Agent, S3S
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Pa.
p. G. Smith, Passenger Agent, 1851
Pennsylvania avenue. Washington, d. G
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05
HAs EMpENTLY sHuT UP.

The Every Evening declines to put up
and prefers to shut up. So be it. 1t
began mean and wanton attack upon
the EVENING JOURNAL for no other cause
than a miserable jealousy. There was
absolutely nothing to say against the
EVENING JOURNAL. The attempt to show
that the EVENING JOURNAL was bought
was an absolute and lamentable failure.
The Every Evening did not dare to make
such charge in an actionable form for
we should have Immediately made the
owners shoulder the responsibility in its
courts. We have already made plain
statement Of the facts and still assert
that anything contrary to our statement
is untrue and is prompted by the spite
of low, malicious, mortgage laden con
temporary simply because some business
came to the EVENING JOURNAL which il
would like to have. Like dishonest
trickster il preferred to believe that bust
ness could come only by chicanery.
The Every Evening has dealt in inuendo
and perversion Of the truth where a
straight forward course would have been
simpler and far more honorable. 1t
parades as an accusation that the
Young Mems Republican Club accepted
the resignation Of the EVENING JoUR-
NAILS manager as if it were a crime Ia
point of fact he was never more than a
social member-never voted and
was never active at all. Grant
ing even that he had been
otherwise there would not have
been any crime, There is absolutely
nothing in this whole matter that should
have engaged theattention of an honorable
or worthy contemporary for Il moment.
Nobody connected with the EVENING
JOURNAL has done anything that is at all
reprehensible. But a jaundiced and
splenctie rival could not examine the
ease fairly and the Every Evening
never attempted to publish the truth,
never tried to ascertain the truth, never
gave the EVENING JOURNAL the benefit
of single doubt, but rushed in jealous
rage to publish what we're transpar-
emit lies, for the purpose OF
doing injury and even did that under the
guise, the refuge Of a scoundrel, of ex
posing a fraud Now we have made q
direct charge capable Of proof in court
against the hypocritical wilmer. and dare
the mortgage-ladened old huckster OF
frivolous lies to put the matter to proof.
We are sorry to have been compelled
to inhict the public with newspaper quar-
rels. We do not wish to stray from our
business Of giving the news in bright,
crisp and attractive manner. We prefer
to be courteous 20 our contempt
raries, but we are not angels and
we cannot stand lessons in good manners
nor in good morals from tricky, SWIVEL
ling old sinner like the Every Evening,
hence we felt under the necessity Of de
parting from our course TO touch up the
tender parts in the anatomy Of our con.
temporary just as a man kicks a yellow
dog from the door of his meat house. We
are sorry to spoil our boots, but we cannot
permit the vile brute TO run at large
II the yellow dog must have another kick
we shall reluctantly give it, but the
choice still remains to put up or shut
up.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05

THE spell Of Bismarck's frown is
deadly. Those who oppose the man Of
destiny fall sick and die. The notable
examples are Gambetta, Chanzy. Skobe-
left, King Louis of Bavaria, and Rudolph
of Austria Each Of these magnates at
tempted to oppose the viii of the Iron
Chancellor and each one is dead. and
there is tragedy or mystery overhanging
their memories. Apropos to these strange
condolences it is a matter of speculation
as TO the result of frOwning contest be-
tween Bismarck and Blaine.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05
HOW the Farmer n pluckcd.

A farmer at Hood River shipped sixty
sacks of potatoes weighing about 100 pounds
each to this city few days ago. The pota.
toes sold hero for forty cents FER 100 pounds
the top price. The freight was thirty cents
per 100, the drayage two cents, and commits
sion two cents, which, with six cents for the
sacks, consumed the entire proceeds Of the
sale, leaving the farmer not cent for hi.
seed, the labor Of planting, cultivating
harvesting and shipping, which, as any one
knows who has hoed, dug and picked up pota
toes, is no trifing matter.-Portland Ore
rpuinu
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05
clothinr rrom IIIs onn nalr.

There is a farmer living in Fulton county
who has tho most useful head Of hair on
record His hair is more like the wool OF a
sheep than anything else. 1t is soft and long
and curls but little. 1t IS about the color Of
the wool on the back Of a brown sheep, and
is as thick as the wool Of sheep. The
gentleman prizes his peculiar hair very
highly, and he also makes good use Of it, for
ho has several pairs Of socks and a nice warm
pair OF gloves made from hair cut from his
own head.-Atlanta Journal.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
oraer. d rontl md ron nam.

To the editor OF EVENING JOURNAL
SIR: VIII the JOURNAL give me space
for few words in reply to the Philadel-
phia Times and Record, who have been
devoting a great deal Of time and space
the past few days in expressing what
they allege to be fraudulent insurance
associations, including in the list the
Order Of the Iron Hall and Tonti. 1t is
not difficult to see that these attacks are
inspired by the old line insurance com
panies, whose officers live in marble
palaces and with salaries ranging from
5000 TO $780, 600 year. Talk about
high salaried officials In Tonti or Iron
Hall they bear no comparison to those
paid BY old-line companies. These com
panies that have held the field so long
| unsisturbed, realizing that their i'll
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-05

An I said, III dared 10 do 40,
ia lit 20 NV this baste, an' I'd throw
Both arms round your waist,
An be staliii' a taste
Wv them lips that are coaxin' me So"
Thin she blushed a more illigant red,
As she said. widOut raisin' her head,
An her eyes lOOkin' down.
Meath her lashes so brown,
"WOuld ycz ike me to dhrive, Mister TIE
-Hrle [