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sails Of any kind, their motive power be-
ing the arms and backs Of slaves generally
captured in war.
Obviously the gallcys Of the French,
Spanish. and italian nations were sTr-
vival of the Roman triremc. In some Of
these there were sails, but in others there
were clean decks, rs in the days when
the Thurman triremcS of Octairanus won
the great victory Of Actium.
To American readers there can he no
interest in the minute differences between
the galcon tho oallca>, and the galcr;l
ii Spain aud Italy. and the Goelrttc and
galrrr oi FRANCE, for they were all mudl-
licatiun- of the Roman long ship. The
benches of the oarsmen were manned by
prisoners condemned to serve in the Kings
gallcys for different periods of time. and
this will explain to the readers of Moliere,
and La Sage. and other French writers OF
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
innumcrab!c illusions to the gal
lcys. At the French revolution
the system was abandoned forever,
and it ceased under the Napoleonic
regime in Spain, nor was it renewed when
Joseph Bonapartc was expelled and the
rightful King, Ferdinand, came back to
Aranjuez and the Escurial. But it sub
sisted in the two Sicilies until Garibaldi
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TyrOlean Farmers.

The struggle for mere existence with
these poor people (the Tyrolese) is a
fearful one, something that an American
farmer never even dreamed of. The
summer days are so few and so rainy
that hay can be made only by tying the
grass around poles to dry, free from the
ground, and they may often be seen
moving in the rain, hoping that the sun
will come out long enough to partly dry
out the grass when cut.
The men, when moving, generally
have on white aprons, looking much
like lot of BARRIERS or walters pressed
into the service. This is due. probably,
to the fact that the women do the most
of the moving, and when man has to
do it he wants to look as much like i
woman as possible. SO as not to be rec
ognizcd.
Throughout the most of Europe the
peasants, or farmers. live i'll villages and
go every morning and evcnin" from tw"
to four miles to their land and back. At
Il great loss Of time and thought.
1t is IL rare thing to see separate houscs
in the country. In Tyroi and Switzer-
land the houses are more scattered and
one may often see them perchcd )" far up
on the mountain side that it would seem
impossible to get to them, and frequently
Il hamlet of dozen Or twenty houses
will be found lying up almost i'll tue
clouds. nearly at the timber line. III the
most unexpected n!acr'.-Chit"g, ''0r'-
nai
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TN C0LU MBCS' TIME.
HOW WAR AND OTHER SHIPS
WE'RE CONSTRUCTED.
The Santa Maria, in Which Column
bus Visited This Hemisphere
Roman TriremeS Manned
by Galley Slaves.

The Santa Maria, the caravel in which
Cristobal Colon made his astounding dis
covery of this hemisphere, is generally
described by writers us mere cookie
shell, but this is an exaggcration. We
possess very full particulars of it, through
the pride of Spain in having wrought so
great Il work, which led them to record
minutely all the details of the expedition
of 1902. The Museo Naval of Madrid
has an authentic picture of the vessel,
which is copied for this article, and there
can be no doubt that it was as good q
ship as the Spaniards could build, of suf-
ticient size. perfectly sound, well-fttcd,
and with numerous crew. It was 30
feet at the keel, and somewhat more
than 100 feet from stem to stern, with
a complete deck, and at the stern
poop-dcck 26 feet long, under
which were the heavy guns of the
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drove out the detested royal family and
released the prisoners chained to the
benches OF the galleys. For under that
horrible dynasty of the Ncapolitan Bour-
bons. almost all the galley slaves were
political offenders, men who had written
or printed something in favor of free in
stitutions. or had criticised too openly
the unwisdom of the Papal authorities
In France the system had been abandoned
because it was glaring absurdity, an
utter anachronism Of which that enlight-
ened nation was ashamed. But in Italy
the galleys were abolished because they
had been made the instrument of the
vllest oppression. 1t was notorious that
on the detestcd benches of those modern
triremes there were chained two classes
only, murderers of the foulest type and
the purest and noblest patriots. Not for
centuries will the black shadow which
the galleys cast upon thousands of fani-
lies pass away from southern Italy.
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Painting With Sand.

Parisians have lately been entertained
by a remarkable artist, who displays won
derlul skill i'll her peculiar form of paint
ing. With plates of various colored sand
before her she takes the sand in her right
hand and causes it to fall in beautiful de-
signs upon a table. A bunch of grapes
is pictured with violet sand, leaf with
green sand, the stalk with brown sand,
and relief and shadows by other sands
when the work is brushed away bouquet
of roses and other objects are represented
with the same dexterity and delicacy.
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OrtOyeuarianS.
,ai :

In a recent essay Professor Max Muller
declare, his belief that for practical work
4 man of thirty is 4 better man than 4
man of eighty. :.nd that the sooner men
of eighty learn that lesson the better for
themselves and the country they profess
10 serve. The brilliant exceptions which
exist at the present moment, both in Eng
land and in Germany, he believes are
apt to become precedents hereafter and
to prove extremely dangerous in less ex-
ceptioual cases. ses.-Philaae!pbit Ttmss.
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Both Modest and BuSineSSlike.

A Paris paper recently offered an emf
nent Frenchman $1,000 fer his autobi-
ography. He accepted this offered, and
after getting a check for the amount sent
on his autobiography, which was as fol-
lows: II was born at Lyons in 1899,
and since that time can recall nothing
of any account. except that | have not
been killed in any of the uprisings." "
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Hvrmecides. an ancient carver, wa

Hvrmecides. an ancient carver, was
also so proficient in microscopic mechan-
Ism that he made an ivory chariot with
four wcclS. and us many harnesscd horses,
in 50 small compass that fly might
have hidden them all under its wings.
the same artisan made ship with all her
decks. masts, yards, rigging and SAILS
which took up scarcely more room than
the chariot. :.
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Farmer Ito Sportsman)-"Did you
shoot my mule?"
Sportsman-'I Ives. - Most I'm.
fortunate accident"
Farmer-'tTwo hundred dollars" "
Observation-Disclosures; tifty's enough
and, besides, that won't leave me any
money to get home
Farmcr-''Two hundred dollars, young
man, or you won't need any fare home"
PucE
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Thn Orin0cn Hut.DMellerS.

The Guaharibos Indians, who live on
che Oriuoco River, South America, arc
peculiar race of beings. Their hu:s
Evening journal., 1890-02-14
A cnAPIeR oE AccIpen1s.


George ". Gray, Joseph Jenkins and
Peter a. Miller Heef with uishaps.
George E. Gray, aged eight years. was
struck by south bound train No. 81 on
the r., w & 3. rEiiroad at Liberty street
crossing, while at play yesterday after
noon at 1890 O'Clock. On beng re-
moved to the P, w. & B. station, 1t was
found that his collar-bone was broken
and his head and body were
terribly bruised. Drs. Ogle ana
Pierce were summoned and worked
for an hour trying 10
restore the lad to consciousness. He re-
manned in stupor until o'clock. when
he revived and was removed to his home,
No. 229 Nancy street. Dr. Draper, who
attended the little sufferer, in company
with DR.. Ogle, this morning, was ques-
toned this afternoon by an EVENING
JOURNAL reporter, and said that the boy
had been unconscious ever since he was
struck, and there were slight hopes of
his recovery.
Joseph Jenkins, of the firm of Miller &
jenkins, plumbers, was badly injured at
/. T. Quigley's morocco factory. Fourth
and Monroe streets, yesterday afternoon.
He was experimenting a gang of plumb
ers and in walking across the room went
under hstchway and was struck and
forced to the ground by falling skin
He was found to be severely injured, and
was taken to his home, No. 1000 Monroe
street, in Wilson's ambulance. Drs. Short
lidge and Maull attended the sufferer
who spent wretched night. His condi
tion is serious.
Peter H. Miller Of No. 925 West Sec
1 L \ L 4. IF IL l. laa
| ted yesterday afternoon at the shops OF
the Harlan and Hollingsworth Company
about A o'clock. He had just been test
ing some new machinery and started
down the track when his foot slipped anC
in falling his hand came in contact will
a bevel-wheel, and before he could with
draw it another wheel had caught it an'
the third finger was so badly mashe'
that It had to be amputated. DR.. Pete
Cooper, the attending physician, think
the others can be saved.
Evening journal., 1890-02-14


BISHOP FINK, of the Roman Catholic
Church Of the diocese Of Leavenworth,
Kansas, has issued pastoral letter which
says:
Many of our people are suffering and
are in misery, uncertain what they
should do in The future. The complaints
come not only from the laboring classes
in cities who are without work, but
especially from the country districts,
from the farming population, which feels
that matters cannot be as they are for an
indefinite number Of years, or they will
lose their house and home. Owing to the
peculiar state of our country every one
suffers when the farming population is
In distress. Thoughtful persons are well
aware that the present grievances Of the
farmers are but too true. In seems that
almost every industry in our country Is
protected, in order to amass riches In the
hands Of the few by which the many will
have to suffer.
This statement from source so far
removed from suspicion of political bias,
so intelligent, so conversant with the
needs Of the people, so deeply concerned for
the spiritual, physical and material vel
fare of the people, so capable of determin
ing the cause and the cure of the con-
dition which he comprehends and laments
should attract general attention and
carry universal conviction. In pastoral
letter the reverend pastor commenting
with unprejudiced calmness and perfect in
telligence upon the condition of his do
cese declares that the only classes not pro
tected are those that would seem to need
it most-the laboring men and the farm
ing population To man who is not
blind with partisan feeling this is the
most serious Indictment that could be
framed against the fallacy Of protection.
A Roman Catholic Bishop declaring that
the basic argument urged in favor Of
protection-tha it protects the Ameri-
can workingman--is mockery and q
fraud should cause protectionist to exam
| inc the character Of the arguments he
has been using to support general rai6
on the treasury and far more general
tax of blood money on the people. Be-
sides these people in Kansas there is thu
vast horde Of cotton growing negroes
whom the protectionists profess to have
in special charge, who pay protective
tariff rates for everything they bu,
while they sell the products Of theii
years labor at Liverpool free trade
prices. AS the clear-minded divine says
this class which is protected least, need
protection most.
Evening journal., 1890-02-14
DUPONT POST CELEBRATES.


The Tenth Anniversary OF the Thriving
Organization.
The post room of Admiral S. F. DUPONT
Post, No. 2, g. A. R., was handsomely
decorated with flowers and bunting last
night and an open camp ere started In
honor of its tenth anniversary. The
room was crowded and the literary fea-
lures of the exercises were interspersed
with music by Hyatts Military Band.
DIR. Ferguson of Post No Ia, Phila'
delphia. presided and delivered humor
GUS address, which was laughed at i'm
moderately by the veterans.
Department Commander Peter B
Ayars reviewed the history of the post.
Post Communicable of Post No, ia
Past Department Commander Daniel Ross
Chaplain Mccoy, Post Commander Finney
of Post No. ia, and Officer Of the Day
Kline and Comrade Jackson of the same
post Department Inspector GriffenberG
of Post 10 of Delaware; Post Com
mander Hood Of Sumner Post, No. 4
Captain Taylor of Garfield Camp, Som
OF Veterans, also delivered short adj
dresses.
Randall Wolf gave reading which
made the audience laugh, while w R
Long made them cry Two accomplished
terriers, Fannie and George Turner wer'
put through a lot of amusing antics b.
their master, Daniel Wright, after whicl
J. G. G. Reddington Of New York SAM
several songs.
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PATENT MEDICINE Monopoly.
Delaware Druggists Lay an Imaginar
Griavnnce Before Congress.

Delaware Druggists Lay an Imaginary
Grievance Before Congress.
DR.. r. E. Stewart, Jacob S. Beetem, John
Harvey, Herbert X. Watson and y.
James Belt, druggists and representa-
tives Of the Delaware Pharmaceutical
Society laid before the House Commit
tee on Patents in Washington yesterday
The following question: Does the trade
mark of The owner or manufacturer Of a
patent menicine give the right to control
the manufacture and sale OF that med
ieine after the patent has expiredg
Patent medicine proprietors have
threatened suit against druggists who
manufacture compounds upon which
they have trade marks.
MIR. Butterworth, chairman Of the
committee. told the druggists that they
needed no legislation at the hands OF
Congress and that their trouble was al
imaginary. A trademark could not be
made descriptive of the articles sold.
Dealers would have as much right to get
trademark on steel as steel,
or on water rs water, as
to name some newly discovered
compound and then seek to control tbs
article by getting trademark bearing
the same name as the compound. They
could patent their own discovery for sew
enteen years, and then their control Of i
would end.
Evening journal., 1890-02-14

A local missionary among the colored
people said that he was "astonished at
the low condition Of the colored people
here. Politics makes the colored man
worse. continuing the divine compared
the positions Of the two races and said
that the blacks could not attain to the
present position occupied by the whites
in less than 500 years. Their attempt to
stand In political equality with the
whites is comical and hurtfuL They have
neither the courage nor the intelligence.
He said that their ignorance and their
crude opinions made his mission ex-
tremely difficult and unfruitful He die
a great deal Of hard work and accom-
plished poor results. 1.-THE difficulty is
to make them comprehend their relative
condition"
Evening journal., 1890-02-14
cluup FoR eNeINEER.


A Harmonious Convention OF Firemen
Nominates Officers.
The fremen Of this city held a conven-
tion to nominate officers, in the parlors
Of the Delaware Fire Company last even
ing Each Of the seven fire companies
was represented by three delegates The
session was remarkably harmonious. j.
G. Hanna Of the Delaware Company
called the meeting to order and T. H.
Pratt of Delaware was nominated chair
man for the evening; with James a.
Yates Washington secretary. The
nomination for chief engineer and first
and second assistants, were opened
John Il. Hendrixon, Delaware,
was nominated for chief engineer by j.
Q. Williams, Delaware. Alexandria r.
Cloud, Friendship was nominated by F.
J. Niedermaier. Washington. The ballot
resulted thus: Hendrixon, the vote OF
Delaware; Cloud, the votes of Friend
ship Washington, Fame Hose and
PhBniN-4; James f. Kane, vote of his
company, Reliance; blank, Weccacoe
/. Cloud is therefore the convention
candidate and he will undoubtedly bl
elected, says fireman.
For first assistant, U. s. Pierson
Friendship. nominated Lewis Peeky
Fame Hose; the Wecaccoe delegation
nominated Edward Mcguire. PeelSy re
csived the vote Of Washington, Fam
Hose, Phoenix and Friendship; Mcguire
that Of his own company and the Reli
ance, and Delaware voted blank.
For second assistant, U. s. Piersor
nominated James M. Dickinson, Wash
ington, and on motion Of J. g. Hanna, h
was elected unanimously. The session
occupied just thirty-two minutes.
The election will take place on Monda,
evening, April 7, each company holdin
an election. The candidate must recey
the votes of a majority Of the companies
The Delaware Fire Company had Tia
first chief engineer Of the department
Il. W. Perkins in 1868, and has not ha
one since. 1t will vote for Cloud and S
will Washington
Evening journal., 1890-02-14

c. H. TAYLOR, colored man, com
menting on the convention of colored
men in Washington says:
We are in the minority in every part
Of this land. and as such we must
persuade the majority, instead Of at
tempting to browbeat IL into concessions
by wholesale abuse.
In the course Of his letter Mr.. Taylor
makes this epigrammatic remark;
II one white man can run eight ne
groes, IL is conclusive proof that the
eight negroes are inferior in some way
to the race to which that white man be-
longs.
Mr.. Taylor recommends the cultivation
Of more conservative feeling among his
own race. and division Of the colored
between the two parties Senator Ingalls,,
in one Of his bitter and venomous partisan
diatribes, characterized recently a demo-
cratic colored man as "a black monstros-
| ity." Mr.. Taylor quotes the insult and
temporarily replies that such language
injured my race rather than helped
them" Taking it as a whole, and recog.
MIXING. as Mr. Taylor does, that because
Of its vast numerical preponderance and
superior intelligence, energy and virtue,
the white race must inevitably be the
governing race, the view he takes Of the
situation is sound and true.
Evening journal., 1890-02-14
WELCOME TO ALeER.

.wr,M1EeToN greets General Russell A.
Alger with hearty welcome
AS the Commander Of the Grand Army
If the Republic, as candidate for the
Presidency, as an honorable and far
minded man. as citizen Of the most
glorious and the greatest country the sun
ever shone upon, every citizen, with
ont respect to party, shouts greeting TO
Russell A. Alger
IN comparison with the last Repuoli-
can candidate for the Presidency, General
Alees is giant; in comparison with other
men. he is every inch man.
There is not citizen in Wilmington
who win not unite with the y.
A. r posts here in giving the favorite
son o. Michigan" spontaneous
a cheerful and cordial greeting There
is not citizen in Wilmington who does
not feel compumented BY his presence
aud who would not assist to maze his
visit pleasant Que and the memory o.
81 one Of his sweetest recollections.
Welcome Alger
Evening journal., 1890-02-14

The new Delaware Hospital was opened
to visitors for the first time at o'clock
this afternoon. The Japanese maidens
who took part in the Kirmess gave
tea at 3 o'clock. The storm
prevented many persons from visiting
the hospital and the Japanese tea had
few drinkers. The hospital will be open
for visitors all day tomorrow. Some of
the rooms are furnished, others
partly furnished, and the wards
win be ready for patients next week.
Evening journal., 1890-02-14
wANAnrAKER.s.

huenced you. Faith gained a
victory when you tested and
found you could believe what
advertising said. No other
advertising can make a bust
ness truly great, and yet the
opposite at times flourishes.
There were no newspaper ad-s
vertisements when the great
Hebrew made his hasty re-
mark about the lack of accu-
racy in the speech of "all
men," The thoroughly in
formed critic of retail mer-
chandise advertising is often
tempted to like statement; but
a few are true, enough to re-
deem the system from disgrace.
More lives are touched by
advertising than by any other
news. Wants are satisfied,
wishes gratihed, the person
meets the needed things-in-
troduced by advertising.
And thus advertising opens
a career in literature. To be
sure Charles Lamb failed at it
and couldn't get his patrons to
print the advertisements that
he wrote, but he lived a half
century too soon. His wit
and graceful English would
win advertising readers by
scores of thousands now. His
essay on old china tells how he
could have written pottery adj
vertisements.
These notions are applied
in our business system. Phila-
delphia needs daily news of
this store. 1t is important to
more. people than records of
court decisions or the doings
of criminals, or debates in
Congress, or rates of ex-
change, or the condition OF
the markets, and the people
therefore shall have it daily
food.
Evening journal., 1890-02-14

at the Young Mems Democratic Club has
received favorable comment from those
who heard it and from those who read
extracts from it in the newspapers The
historical and explanatory portions Of the
lecture deserve close attention Mr..
Graham was fully prepared to meet and
did meet the objections that have been
urged against the Australian method. He
suggested plan toobviate the objection,
urged by the Republicans, that their H.
literate negroes would be DISTINGUISHED.
Men who cannot read will be provided
with ballots having signs "a star, a
hand. a cross--to indicate the politics of
the various candidates or course that is
not the real objection, it is the nominal
objection only. The real objection is that
they will not be able to buy those IL
literate votes, and have any assurance
that "the goods have been delivered. .
Their real objection Is to the secret ball
lot They object to the protection of the
voter They are wild for every other
sort of protection but that protection
which affords riches or safety to anybody
else. MIR Graham showed that this
method guaranteed the best results
which can be obtained by free, intelli-
gent, uutrammelled, popular suffrage
Those who oppose the method oppose il
because it makes these guarantees
Evening journal., 1890-02-14
NEWSPAPER OPINION.
Too Much BY HAIR.

Boston Transcript.
viii chiefs and stewards amanuenses
kindly accept an amendment to their con.
secrated formula, 'Oysters on the Half
SHELF" 1t consists simply in the omis-
sion of the word "half The oyster,
dear friends, is bivalve; that is, 1t has
two whole shells, one Of which serves TO
hold the dumb and placid creature when
he is served at the beginning of your
banquet To be sure you might break
the shell in halves, but that is not
your habit
Evening journal., 1890-02-14
HuMoR OF THE DAY.

"DAH is a culled pusson in dissah' con-
gregation, said Brother Jackson. dat is
'clined ter presume too much on de light
ness OBJ is complexion. whats josh
Tolliver bin doin'l' asked another mem
Der. when de superintendent OBJ de
Sunday school called de roll he made or
faseshus remark erbout er black list, an
I dermsn' dat he be disciplined. Wash
ington Post.
EILA-"Ma. Cousin Bob kissed me
this morning" Mother-"He did,
hope you rebuked him, Ella Ella
81 did that very thing. ] said Bob, you
be careful not to do that when pa or ma
Is around, or you'll hear something
drop. Texas Siftings.
AN eminent citizen of this town al
ways hires the best-looking servant girls
be can obtain for protection. $50 long
as half the police force is around your
house a. night, he says, ''you needn't
have more than the average fear OF
burglars. "--Philadelphia Times.
AN electric piano is the latest invention
We hardly see the need of it, however.
Nine tenths Of the performances on
ordinary pianos are shocking. -Burling-
ton Free Press.
HENRY JAMES says he never expe
rienced the tender passion. He devote'
himself exclusively TO the legsi-tendei
passion. Boston Herald.
BARITONE at the piano sings kiss me
darling, in the spring." And the faii
accompanist murmurs, softly, l"Whati
the matter with doing it nowT-BostoI
Gazette.
MANY and many a battery w
charged, said the old man, in broker
voice, as he asked for food. with Gran
during the war; mo, with Edison q
Menlo Park. New York Herald.