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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13
THE BoDF IDENTIFIED.
1t Was James Morrison Whose Body
Was Found Yesterday Week.

A coroner's inquest was held last evening
week over the body of the man found noat-
ing in the Christiana river yesterday MORN
ing week. A verdict of death from causes
unknown was rendered. The body was
buried in the potter's field Thursday.
After the body had been buried, Mrs.
James Morrison of No. 1903 Shallcross
avenue, called at the coroner's office and
identified the watch which had been found
on the body as one belonging to her hus-
band James Morrison, an engineer. Her
description Of his clothing proved without
a doubt that the body was that of her h u.s.
band. She said that he left home on Satur-
day, October 18th, and she had not seen
him since.
Nothing strange was thought Of his dis
appearance because he had before gone
away unexpectedly to New York and
stayed some days. Mrs. Morrison sup
posed that lie had gone to New York,
where he had talked Of opening saloon.
1t is supposed that Morrison fell into the
river, while Intoxicated. Mrs Morrison
will have the body removed from Tie vot-l
ter's Field and inferred in the Cathedral
cemetery.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13

William H. Wilmer of No. 1903 Rodney
street and his next door neighbor, II. John
son, started out Monday week on a rabbit
shooting expedition to LANDS End,n
Queen Annc's county, Md, on a tract of
land on the Chester river, owned by MIR.
Wilmer. They succeeded in bagging IS
rabbits in the one day. There were five
rabbits started at one time by the dogs
and Mr.. Wilmer killed four in few sec
onds without moving step. The gunncrs
shot over only two of the ravines of the
farm. The rayines are simply swarnng
with rabbits. Mr.. Wilmer and Mr. John
son found they had enough hunting for
one day and returned TO Wilmington
highly delighted with their sport.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13
KNIaurs or PHYLLIS.
The New Standing Committees of the
Grand Lodge of Delaware.


For the Grand Lodge of Delaware, X. Of
P, Grand Chancellor l.. Il. Wallace of Sea-
ford has appointed the following standing
committees:
Law and Supervision-C. p. Maronev,
Lodge No. l; James Il, Tucker, No. 4 VIII
liam Simmons, No. ..
Appeals and Grievances-W. ]. Jefferis,
Lodge No. :; $. J. Wiley, No. 8; VS..
Moreland, No :.
Returns and Credentials-J. K T. Morris,
Lodge No, l. $. G. Simmons, No. "a; ]. II.
Hendrix, No. 8.
Printing-Mark L. Garrett, Lodge No. s.
W. T, Whtcworth, No. 49, James II.
Towers, No. lS.
Finance and Niileage-owen w. Everett
Lodge No. /; ID. r. shaw, No. Z; u. l..
Beeson, No, 8.
Foreign Correspondence-Lem Mari,
Lodge No. 3; William \. Mullen, No. ~;
William n. Potter, No. 10.
State of the Order-Thomas Mullan, Jr.,
Lodge. No. 3; Joseph A. Snydam, No Il;
w. 4. Moore, No. S.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13

The canvass of Mr.. w. r. Croasdale
nominee of the County Democracy, in the
Seventh New York Congressional district
was unsuccessful. Dumty, the Tammany
nominee, was elected by large majority
though Mr.. Croasdale polled big vote.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13

The business portion of Truckee, CAL,
was destroyed by an incendiary fire early
Thursday morning. About 40 buildings
were burned. Loss about $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13

Walter II. Franks, superintendent a.
schools in Wilkesbarre, Pa, dipd saGdyli,
Thursday. He was II years old.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
HAY CAPS.

on the rake and get it into beds. If too
heavy put on the tedder, and stir it
lively until 3 p. m , Then put it into
cocks and have the covers all on by $50
p. m. 1t is all right then for five days
pull of lowery weather if it comes, and
no storm can reach it to spoil it. Before
that time, as rule. the. sun will shine
enough to finish curing it. This rule I
have adhered to strictly and certainly
got well paid for it. Some farmers say
it is luck. It is no such thing; it is
doing it by rule. Never leave one safe
position until you are sure of reaching
another before it rains.
Some inquire: Do you put on covers
whether it is going to rain or not? As
a rule, do, certainly on rowen: dense
fogs will, permeate d, it as badly as
shower, and the less fog comes in con-
tact with it the better. 1t requires
some work and little care to use COW
ers, but in a rain storm it is like hav-
ing your buildings insured, when the
lightning is wildly playing about them
it makes one feel much better to
know the hay is covered. The covers I
use most are made of heavy cotton drill,
go inches wide, cut into 64-inch pieces.
These are hemmed all round and have
a leather or metallic eyelet in each
corner with heavy cotton cord IA
inches, long, tied in it. Attached to
this is aspin made of any tough wood.
1t is 10 inches long, five-eighths Of an
inch thick, and three-fourths of an inch
wide. 1t should be sharpened at one
end and have hole at the other end to
receive the cord. With such covers
tons of hay can be we'll and safely Sc
cured in catching weather. They can
be gotten up at cost of 50 to 62 cents
each, and if taken care of will last
twenty years. l have used mine an
nually for nine years and they are good
for ten years mOre.-W. ii. Wilkinson,
in Home and Farm.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
Quick Haying.

When grass was cut with scythes,
moving was best when the dew was on.
With the moving machines came other
ways. A mower does best when there
is no water on the grass. / have found
grass cut between eleven and twelve
o'clock a. m. is cured better at two
o'clock than that cut between nine and
ten and it makes better hay. My plan
is to run the machine from eight or nine
o'clock to twelve m. Between one and
two D. m. start the rake and hands to
put up in small cocks. As 500 n as
done raking start the teams to hauling
to the barn. If possible it should all
be in the barn by shutdown. II any re-
mains over, that should be carted inthe
morning. II the prospect is good for
another fair hay day, I sometimes NOW
two or three hours after noon, but never
enough to risk having a lot of wet hay
to dry. This seems slow work to many,
but l manage to get my hay into the
barn in less time per acre than others
who work all the time. 1t is as much
work to dry lot of hay after being wet
rs it is to cut and rake the same amount
without being wet, and the hay is worth
twice as much as after wetting intake
hay when the sun shines. The more
haste the less speed" Whatever is
worth doing, is worth doing we'll +"
These three rules are the rules to hurry
hay making and good hay.-Farm and
Home.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04

and was dragged from his saddle. Tho
his teeth and hung on, the veins in his
forehead swelling almost to bursting,
and his head swimming until he could
not see. His feet did not touch the
ground, and his weight was so light that
she slackened but did not cease rum
ming. She was furious at his inter-
ference. She reared on her hind feet,
and tried to strike him with her front
hoofs. She even tried to bite him, but
he held on with wonderful courage and
endurance. He realized that she was
gradually becoming subdued, that she
was stopping, that his school-fellow was
safe! Then he tainted away.
Barry Cartwright was the hero of the
day, after all. He was a somewhat dam
aged hero, for his shoulder was dislo-
Gated, and his hands were terribly
bruised; but then a warrior must expect
some bodily injuries. The boys focked
about him and praised him until he was
overwhelmed by his sudden popularity.
The teachers called him a hero, and
that confused him all the more. Then
Mr.. Fleming thanked him so fervently
that he scarcely knew the proud man in
his sudden humility.
The battle was never finished. The
Baron Knyphausen couldn't fight, and
there wasn't soldier in Springfield
who would have been willing to stand
up against him, even in play.
Herbert went home with Barry, and
staid with him all the rest of the day.
"Barry," he said, "I've felt like thief,
for stole your generalship! I've been
awfully miserable about it / saw how
mean l had been, and knew you must
despise me. And you saved my life!
You'll never want me near you, and yet
I'd be proud if you could only let me DO
your friend!"
Barry held out both of his hands and
smiled. 1.-The war is over" ne said, land
we won't have any more hard feeling. I
think we will like each other better aft
er this" -.-.-
And peace was declared.-Frances 3.
Curri e, in n. Y. Observer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04

beholders. The boy and the animal
were enveloped in cloud Of dust, but it
could be seen that as yet he chung to her
back The battle was forgotten Sol
diers and spectators ran forward and
shouted, but the black mare only ran
the faster. Now she stunt led and
nearly fell; now she regained her foot
ing and tore away again; now her sad
die had slipped around and hung on her
side. The boy had lost the bridle-rein,
and was clinging to her name. He was
crying out for help and momentarily ex-
pecting to be dashed under her feet -,
Barry Cartwright tried to save his
school-fellow. For days he had been
harboring angry feelings against
Herbert Fleming, but now they were
forgotten. Almost as soon as the black
mare had taken flight Barry was urging
the sorrel in pursuit. The old horse
seemed to understand the situation.
Barry knew that he could never over
take the fleet black mare, but that he
must try to head her off. He rode the
sorrel across the fields, urging him to
Jump bitches and fences, and thus take
a shorter route than the mare was TAX
ing. The old horse made a mighty
effort and travelled faster than it had
gone for years Every one shouted to
Barry to come back, that he would DO
killed, but he needed no warning. His
father prayed for him and was proud of
him.
When Barry reached the road it was
at point in advance of the black mare.
Herbert was clinging to her back, and
she came on, frothing at the mouth, and
still in frenzy of fear. Barry caught
her tridle as she tried to rush past
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04

servitude, on his wedding morn, he
escapes, for period, from danger that
might well appall less fortunate bride
groom.
brother. He is sure to be mistaken for
a lover. We never come across a
brother and sister in real life who ever
gave the most suspicious person any
grounds for installing them for lovers,
but the stage brother and sister are so
afecticnate that the error is excusable.
And when the mistake does occur,
and the husband comes in suddenly and
finds them kissing and raves, she
doesn't turn round and say: "Why, you
silly cuckoo, its only my brother"
That would be simple and sensible,
and would not suit the stage heroine
at all. No, she does all in her power to
make every body believe it is true, SO
that she can suffer in silence.
She does so love to suffer.
He follows the hero all over the world.
This is rough on the hero.
What makes him so gone on the hero
is that when they were boys together
the hero used to knock him down and
kick him. The comic man remembers
this with glow of pride when he Is
grown up, and it makes him love the
hero and determine to devote his life to
him.
He is man of human station-the
comic man. The village blacksmith or
a peddler. You never see rich or
aristocrstio comic man on the stage.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04

tors 70 gaze upon them. There had
beensho professions in the town for six
months, and they determined that on
the Fourth of July they would have
one.
As it is Revolutionary town, Spring
field is all alive whenever the Fourth
of July arrives 1t hangs flag from
the spire OF church and rings the viii
lage bells. The town folk talk of their
independence" and spend money for
fireworks On the Fourth" of which
/ write it was decided that the day
should have an unusual celebration, and,
to their delight, the boys in the military
academy were to be the principal actors
in the affair. They were to have a
sham battle on the Revolutionary bat
tle-ground, and to beat the English over
again. Half Of their number were to
dress as the American soldiers dressed,
one hundred years ago, and half were
to wear such uniforms as were worn by
the Hessian yagers of that period
In the year 1850 the American army
at Springfield was commanded by Gen
eral Greene, and the British army by a
Hessian General named Baron
Knyphausen. 1t was decided that two
boys on horseback should impersonate
these great officers. .ns
OF course all of the boys wanted to be
American soldiers, and not one was
willing to put on a red coat and call
himself Hessian. 1t became necessary
to call the teachers in to settle this
difficulty, and they wrote the words
American" and British" upon a great
many slips of paper, turned them face
downward in a box and invited each
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
A Happy Medium.

For the past twenty-five years the
American horse breeders have been bent
upon the prod uction of two extremes
the heavyweight draft horse and the
light-weight. low-striding trotter. These
both have their useful spheres, but in
the mad and indiscriminate rush for
their acquisition there has been pro-
duced on the one hand too many big,
lifeless, fat-footed, soft-jointed bullocks
with legs full of coarse hair, of little
utility and short-liyed; aud on the other
hand, we have a small, short-necaed,
narrow-chested, nervous little trotter
whose ability to trot is only demon
strated after the expenditure of snug
little sum of money, and which if he
can not trot and trot fast is of very lit
tie use to the farmer who has raised
him, and must be kept at. further ex-
pense until he can be marketed as
roadster at about six wears of age. The
breeding of the typical trotting horse
for profit is a very dangerous business
for the general farmer to embark in ex-
cept he be unusually we'll posted in ped
igrees and possessed of considerable
spare capital. Progressive breeders have
begun to realize these two dilemmas
and they are casting about forthe mate
rial with which TO establish a class tAat
shall combine to a great extent the
utility Of both kinds without soue of
their Objectionable features; that viii
meet the popular demand for coaching
horses and that will at the same time
perform their. full share of the farm
labor from the time they are three or
four years old until sold on the fasm.
Breeders Gazette.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
Appreci alton Before Praise.

There are persons in this woodland
the pity is there are not more of them
who care less for praise than for APP
probation. They have an ideal after
which they are striving, but which
they consciously fsl; short of-as every
one who has lofty ideal is sure to do.
When that ideal is recognized by
another, and they are praised or COM
mended for something in its direction,
they are grateful-not for thu praise.
but for appreciation. An element Of
sympathy enters into that recognition,
and they feel that they have some
thing in common with the observer who
admires what they admire and praises
what they think is most worthy Of
praise,-N. Y. Ledger.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
A GREAT ECONOMY.
a Farmer Who Thinks Hay Covers 4
most Indispensa able In Putting Up Hay


Farmer Who Thinks Hay Covers Al
most Indispensable In Putting Up Hay.
Hay caps pay we'll. have used them
for several years, and would as soon
think of getting hay without moving
machine as without hay covers There
are times when they are not needed,
and, of course, will not be used. but no
farmer is fully equipped for haying
without them. In a season like last
year they were found indispensable.
Hundreds and thousands of tons of hay
will be badly injured without them this
year, and this, besides the delay of
cutting the grass when it ought to have
been cut, and could have been secured
with the needed protection. To be a
good judge of the. weather is a splendid
qualification, but few men can tell the
amount of sunshine to be depended
upon when they enter their fields. With
the aid of covers / have cut So tons of
hay and so tons of rowen from 43 acres
of land without getting it wet at all,
and could but pity my brother farmers
all about me, to see their delay, with
hay spelling, simply for want of protec-
ton. l have seen acres of nice grass
cut and allowed to rot on the ground for
want of covers. .--r .
Some may ask: Will not the hay mold
and sour, even covered, through long
storm? Certainly it will, if not put up
right. I never allow grass to be cut in
dull day so as to be ready when the
sun comes out Never cut it unless you
are sure of one good day, and then
down with it as early as possible. say by
10 o'clock; then, if not too heavy, put
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
HOME MADE PORTABLE spEA. n

hose is pushed. These pumps do not
throw a continues spray, and so piece
Of five-eight-inch heavy rubber tubing
is fastened to Vermorel nozzle a at
one end and the regular pump nozzle
at the other, by winding it tightly
with small copper wire. The two MOBILES
are then connected by two heavy
copper wires fastened by winding
once around each nozzle. The fol-
lowing prices are quoted in the Bulle-
tin, for articles sold in Hartford and
New Haven: Sulphate of copper from
81 to 10 cents per h., according to the
amount sold; ammonia from 8 to 10
cents; carbonate of copper as cents per
lb.; rubber tubing IS cents per foot;
wash boilers, S3.25; force pump, s.. co.
Popular Gardening.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04

You canshave your choice on the stage;
you can be funny and 'of lowly origin,
or you can be well-to-do and without
any sense of humor. Peers and police
men are the people most utterly devoid
of humor on the stage.
The chief duty of the comic mans
life is to make love to servant girls, and
they slap his face; but it does not dis
courage him, he seems to be more smit-
ten by them than ever.
The comic man is happy under any
fate, and he says funny things at funer-
ais, and when the bailiffs are In the
house, or the hero is waiting to be
hanged. This sort of a man is rather
trying in real life. In real life such a
man would probably be Slaughtered to
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
No Hope for Him.

Mr.. Skinphlint rushed into the police
station at four a. m. in great excite
ment.
1--we caught burglar down at my
houser' he yelled. 81 heard him NOV
ing about in the cellar and slipped down
and locked him in. Send policeman
right away and get him."
How long has it been, Mr.. Skin
phlint," said the officer, ''since you
locked him imp
about half an hour"
SIS there no way for him to get out?"
'None at all 1 fastened up the only
opening the cellar has"
''Then you ought to have gone to the
coroner" rejoined the officer. "It that
man has been in your cellar half an
hour he has starved to death."-Chicago
Tribune
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

HAVE pen partitioned off from the
mother SOW, out into which the pigs can
go, where you can feed them little
milk and oatmeal, or good wheat bran,
by themselves, says the Northwestern
Agriculturist. They will learn to eat
and it will be better for them when
weaned.
THE best way to increase the appe-
tite of a horse, if such thing is neces-
sary, is to change his diet frequently,
says an exchange. In the spring horses
often lose their appetites when worked
hard. Bran mashes, chop-feed, ETC.,
make good substitutes for grain rations
at such times. ~ -
Much of the coal delivered in cities
Is drawn by single horses, that easily
draw 5000 pounds at load often over
sidewalks and into soft alleys and I'M
paved streets, writes q correspondent of
the New York Tribune. Many Ohio
farmers imagine they have a load if
they draw 5000 pounds with two
horses. Recently, when roads were al
most impossible, 1 met man with a
very heavy load of shorts drawn by
four horses abreast One span was a
heavy team, the other an ordinary
road team. The teams were we'll
matched; that is, large horse and a
smaller one were together on either
side of the pole, the larger one next the
pole. Thus the heavy team guided the
wagon and held back down hill, while
each pulled against a smaller horse
that was given an advantage on the
double-tree. The quadruple-tree was
2x6 oak scantling slightly tapered,
about seven feet long. This team was
more easily handled, and appeared
more effective than tandem team. as
all the horses could be made to pull
steadily together.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04


bibS
Were ashamed-great Scott!--to fire OF squibs
And so each Independence morn
Grandfather Watts took his powder-horn,
And the flint-lock shotgun his father had
When he fought undr Schuyler, country lad.
And Grandfather Watts would start and tramp
Ten miles TO the woods at Beaver Camp;
For Grandfather Watts used to say-ant
scowl-
That q decent chipmunk or wooichucl1 or owl
Was better company, friendly or shy,
Than folks who didn't keep Fourth of July.
And so he would pull his hat down on hi:
brow
And march for the woods, sou'east by SOU.
But once-ahl long, long years ago;
For grandfather's gone where good men go
One hot, hot Fourth by ways of our own,
Such shortcuts as boys have. always known,
We hurried and followed the dear old man
Beyond where the wilderness began,
To the deep black wooks at the foot OF the
Hump,
And there was clearing and stump
A stump in the heart of great wide wood;
And there on that stump our grandfather
stood,
Talking and shouting out there in the sun,
And firing that funny old fiintIoci gun
Once in minute, his head all bare,
Having his Fourth Of July out there
The Fourth OF July he used TO know
Back in elghteen-and- twenty or so.
First, with his face to the heavens blue,
He read the Declaration" through;
And then, with gestures to the left and right,
He made an Grafton erudite,
Full OF words six syllables long;
And then our grandfather broke into song,
And soaring the squirrels in the trees,
Gave Hail, Columbia" to the breeze.
And tell you, the old man never heard
When we joined in the chorus, word for world
But he sang out strong to the bright blue sky
And IL voices Joined in his Fourth OF July,
He hear' them as echoes from days gone by.
And when he had done, we all slipped back,
As still as we came, on our twisting track;
While words more clear than the f1int-lock
shots
Rang in our ears.
And Grandfather Watts!
He shouldered the gun his father bore,
And marched of home, nor'west by nor
h C. Bunner, in Harper's Young People.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
It Was Tough.

'Please give me bite OF something,
ma'am?" appealed hungry tramp.
''Here, poor man, is some canned beef.
1t is all l can spare YOU"
sis it Texas beef, MIAMI"
"Yes, poor man,
"Then," said the wayfaring man,
turning sadly away, ''may God forgive
you; never, never can"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
Diamond Cut diamond.

Farmer Eli (going home from the gro
cer's)-Here, Dave, hev some more o.
this cheese. n
Farmer Davii-Shoved quite hunk
of it inter yer pocket, didn't We?
Farmer Ei-Yes; but old Prunelle
got the best of me, though. See him
charge me two cents for that half a
dozen clothes-pins? They amt only
three cents dozen.-Puck.