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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14
couldn,t Fool him Again.

A certain Dutchman, owner of small
house, says the Newcastle (England)
Chronicle, had effected an insurance on
it of $500, although it had been built
for much less. The house got burned
down and the Dutchman then claimed
the full amount for which it had been
insured; but the officers of the company
refused to pay more than its actual
value-about f600. He expressed his
dissatisfaction in powerful broken Eng.
lish, interlarding his remarks with some
choice reutonic oaths. "If you wish
it," said the actuary of the insurance
company, 1--WE will build you house
larger and better than the one burned
down, as we are positive it can be done
for even less than f600." To this prop
osition the Dutchman objected, and at
last was compelled to take the f800.
Some weeks after he had received the
money he was called upon by the same
agent, who wanted him to take out a
policy of life insurance on himself or on
his wife. "If you insure your wife's
life for $4,000" the agent said, "and
she should die you would have the sum
to solace your heart"
"Dat be hang" exclaimed the Dutch
man. "You 'surance fellows ish all
tiefs' If insure my wife and my wife
dies and if goes to de Office to get my
$4,000 do gifts all the money! No, moi
quite. You will say to me "She yasn'i
worth $4,000; she was worth bout E600
II you don't like de f600 we will give
you bigger and better wife T."
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14
NE on UGnr THE TRAIN
But Gave Himself Deal of Unnecessary
Trnn hIn in Doing So.

froubto IN DOING SOs
A story which is conyulsing with
laughter every railroad man in the
whole State Of Montana, who has heard
it, was told recently TO a Minneapolis
Tribune reporter. The butt of the laugh
is o well-known official of the Great
Northern railway.
From Butte to Helena the tracks OF
the Great Northern and the Northern
Pacific run side by side for miles to-
gether, each taking the same curves
around the base Of the same mountains
and Jogging along in genial companion.
ship. About half way to Helena, from
Butte, the Great Northern plunges into
an obstructing mountain and runs
through a tunnel nearly q mile long.
The Northern Pacific here leaves the
Great Northern, and instead of passing
through tunnel winds about, twisting
and turning, reversing itself q dozen
times, until one imagines, as he stands
upon the rear platform, that lie sees a
dozen different railroads instead of but
one. The grade is extremely steep.
From the top of the decline one can see
the track five different times, each track
being from 20 TO 20 feet below the one
above it,
A few weeks ago an Eastern official
had occasion to go to Butte from Helena,
and as the Northern Pacific train was
the first TO leave he boarded it. The
official was upon an important mission,
and lie could ill conceal his indignation
when he found that the train was los
ing time. Sitting next to the window,
he turned his contracted brows outward
and gazed discontentedly at tho wonder
full scenery. Looking down he sud
denly espied almost directly below him
100 feet another track. He remembered
that the Great Northern ran parallel
with the Northern Pacific and that the
latter's train to Butte would soon be
| along. So without a word he pulled
the bell cord, clambered off the car, and
made an uncomfortable climb down the
100-foot cliff. He sat down upon the
| end of tic TO wait. Fully 20 minutes
passed and no train; 25 minutes and he
heard whistle and locomotive burst
upon him around the curve. The
official whirled his hat and the train
| stopped. Climbing on TO coach, he
| pitched his satchel into seat with a
| sigh of satisfaction. However, as he
| glanced up, an apparition was before
him in the person Of the conductor he
had seen by rs minutes before on thu
| Northern Pacific train.
"What on earth are you doing here?
inquired the bewildered official.
"Same as | was half hour ago, com
ing down the grade on this same traiI
and saw you sitting in the same sea
where you are now"
The entire coach load of passenger
was on to the, joke, and the official sen
the newsboy out for box of cigars.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14
Like Ourselves
hundreds of manufacturers
to-day Put First

the creating and maintaining
Of employment for as many
people as possible.
If special prices or unusual
discounts are given to us (of
which you might not be aware)
we take them off to you in the
new price, to make larger
sales and full time for work.
men instead of half time.
Even a smaller profit will
go with us steadily through
this Fall and Winter. Our
total stocks are larger than
this time last year, and yet it
is in assortment rather than
quantities. In new designs
and choicest foreign novelties
single pieces and short lengths
were ordered, for the purpose
of giving exclusive styles to a
very few persons.
No one shall stand at anv
door to make face at you
for not carrying away a bundle
or try to turn you back TO
look at something else.
Come and visit as YOU
please-your friends also. The
store is yours for courtesies
and for such service as YOU
seek yourself.
john WANAMAKER.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14
nnIrr 1rn HIM TO pEArn.

Suicide of n Young Man Who rallied to
Pass for Admission to the Naval
Academy.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.--Steele Kcl.
logg, aged q years, only son of Colonel
Sanford Kellogg, U, s. A., shot himself
through the body at tho family resi-
dcncc, in this city, yesterday afternoon,
and died from the effects at midnight
last night. His motive ia thought to
have been grief over his failure to pass
his first years examination at the Naval
Academy, to which he was appointed
by President Harrison as a cadet-at-
large.
After his retirement from Annapolis,
the young man still having liking for
the sea, his father secured him "a posi-
ton on the steamship Ohio OF the
American line, as quartermastor, He
afterwards resigned and entered the
University of Virginia, taking the full
summer course. At the Naval Academy
he was general a favorite among officers
and men.
Col. Kellogg and wife were at DeeI
Park at tho time of the sad affair.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14

The peach season is SO nearly over
that EVERY EVENING has closed its
kilograms from the city markets and the
State exchanges. These kilograms have
been very valuable to tho Delaware
peach growers and shippers, as we'll as
interesting to the general public, and
we have received many acknowledge
ments appreciative Of the service rem
dered by such system of peach market
reporting as has never before been ap-
proximated in completeness, prompt
ness and reliability. The cost and labor
have been considerable, but tho work
has been right in the line of EVERY
EVENINGS accomplishments where the
interests of its readers and of the COM
munity which it serves are concerned.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14

Charles Smith of Sparta, Georgia,
lately had singular dream, the truth
fulness of which the Sparta Ishpsalite
vouches for. The tale is as follows;
During recent fire clock was stolen
from a burning house. The following
night he dreamed he was standing near
negro engaged in cutting wood, and
that, looking through the open window
of the house, he saw the clock standing
on the mantelpiece. In the morning he
went to the house to investigate the
matter. Finding the front door locked,
he went around TO the rear, looked
through the window, saw the clock and
recovered it, just as he had dreamed"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14

WASHINGTON Sept. 12.-State Senator
Lloyd and a committee representing the
officials of the Talbot Couty Fair Assoc
citation were at the Capitol to-day, to
invite Vice-President Stevenson and
Senators Blackburn, Gray and Higgins
to attend the fair at Easton, next week.
All those:invited promised to go if they
could leave Washington. Senator Gibson
will accompany the party.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14
evidence Of Returning oonfidenoe

VIoKsBuRa, MISS, Sept. 12.-The five
banks of Vicksburg which some weeks
ago adopted the system of certified
checks and reduced cash payments to
depositors to $50 daily, met last evening
and unanimously voted to remove all
restrictions, thus showing their conf
dence in the present improved condi-
tions
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14
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apanamaRer's.
puILADELrHrA, Monday, Sept. II, 1893
AU Ready for Fail.

Early shipments OF Fall
stuffs have been aAoat all
August and crowding in upon
us the past week.
All our buyers have been
at their best in collecting the
newest and best things.
Si1teen of them for this sea-
son have been abroad
An hour after IL is just o'se,
whatever you do, and 10 men
sent out to foreign countries
from one firm to pick out ex-
elusive goods and choose out
styles and kinds that some
body must go after and put
legs under if they are to walk
this ways a solid fact that
speaks we'll for old slow Phila-
delphia, say what you like!
Years teachmorethan books
or newspapers. This is the
seventeenth year Of this bust
ness college where the main
business is to learn what PEG.
pie want and get it for them
that they may take it as they
need, at the lowest cost.
To anticipate and assemble
what people want is almost a
science, an altogether different
thing from massing lots o
merchandise to sell at a profit
Our idea Of storekeeping is
the exact reverse of the Ole
one.
This house can never be q
good market for poor mer,
chandise, whatever the temp.
tation.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14

Collector Townsend has accomplished
a big thing by gathering in that oil ship
ping port above Claymont, the revenues
from which formerly went to the Phila-
delphia district. One wonders how his
Brandywine hundred predecessor over
looked this bonanza so peculiarly in his
own bailiwick.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14

simultaneously with the approach
ing international yacht race for the
Americas cup, comes news of prepare
ton for another race, not internationally
settle the question of supremacy among
American steam yachts, The american
Shipbuilder, in its latest issue, editorially
says:
The time recently made by w. B. Cogs-
wells new steam Yacht Feiseen, 3l.6miles
an hour, has not disturbed the equilibrium
of the Mcbride Brothers of Philadelphia,
owners of the Yankee Doodle; i'll the least;
on the contrary 1t has caused these enter
prising gentlemen to issue challenge to
race either the Feiseen, Norwood, Vamoose
or NADIA for from 81 900 to $50, 600 a side.
We hope our Philadelphia friends will be
more successful this year than heretofore
in receiving an acceptance of their sweep
ing challenge. Last year these typical and
sincere steam yachtsmen did all that NOR
tails could do to bring about race between
their Yankee Doodle No. l and any other
steam launch or yacht in the world, but
to no avail. There is great difference be-
tween race on water and race on paper
and the right way to test the relative quail
tiles of the several little flyers is to have a
sweepstakes race, and the best time to
have it occur is in the week of the inter-
national races.
Last Thursdays Philadelphia papers
state that this challenge has been &C.
cepted by Mr.. w. NJ. Tebo of Brook
lyn, who writes the Mcbride Brothers
that he is now in position to say that
if they will bring their yacht to Brook
Ign he will guarantee them race either
for honor or money. 1.-THE Vamoose,
Norwood, Feiseen and Nada," he adds,
"are in my yacht basin, and at least two
Of the four will agree to enter against
your yacht If l succeed in getting your
consent to race. For the benefit of
science that has been displayed in the
design of bulls and machinery and
boilers, and the general good that must
result from speed trial together,
earnestly hope that you will back your
opinion of your yacht and bring hei
here and race her"
This the Mcbride Brothers propose tc
do with alacrity. They say that they
would prefer to race the Yankee Doodle
against all four of the Brooklyn yachts
but, If only two Of the latter are entered
they will insist that the Foiseen shall b.
one Of these two, because Of her owner
claim that she is not only the fastest o
the four but the speediest steam launct
afloat. Such contest would add yer,
much to the interest in the Forthcoming
international races, if it should be ar
ranged to come off about the same time
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14

Advices received at New York from
Panama are to the effect that, August
3lst, the first installment Of 100000
francs, from the Panama Company to
the Colombian government, called for
under the new contract negotiated by
Mr.. Wrange, was paid. The fact of this
payment is regarded as an encouraging
sign that work will be resumed.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14

An exchange reports that Westipg-
house has obtained patents for system
of street car propulsion in which an
alternating current will be used and
conveyed underground in proper con-
luits, SO that there shall be no return
current through rails and water-pipes,
A pair of high tension lines will be laid
and the current reduced to safe work
ng pressure by converters and fed, into
hort sections of the railway conduit,
10 that, sin the first place there will
,e no travelling Of the current over
long distances, and, secondly, the cur
tent being of the alternating kind will
rot produce the electrolytlc action
which seems to be the cause Of destruc-
ion to iron and lead pipes"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14
LO9Ce1' Prices HOUe
Come.

This fact crops out all over
the store.
1t is not so with every
article, but sufficiently SO to
show the trend. If you do
not buy your goods for less
this Fall it will be because you
do not read ouradvertisements
or shut your eyes to full ad-
vantageS.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14

An Agonizing Scene Which Was Enacted
by Two Sweethearts.

by Two Sweethearts.
II was p. m, and George Mont
gomery had been spending the after
noon with sweet Lillian Luray, says
It'd Bits.
"Good-by, darling" he said, fondly,
as they stood at the front door.
"Good-by, George" she murmured,
nesting her head in the time-honored
place.
"Good-by."
"Good-by."
"In every parting, dearest, there is
ing her close and kissing her passion
ately, land we may never meet again. +"
"Oh, George, darling" she said, cling
ing to him almost fiercely.
"Who' knows, my own, what may
happen between this hour and when we
meet again :"
"Ohl George, my love, say that you
will come back to me, to your own little
loving Lillian, George; the same beauti-
full and brave George you have always
been."
Trust me, Lillian, darling; trust your
George"
"Oh darling" she said, strong in the
faith which women have, 81 do trust
YOU" How could love you so if did
not 2" and she kissed him fondly.
"rhen shall come agein, Lillian, my
own"
"But when, George2 When ?" she
asked anxiously.
AT eight this evening, darling"
"0h, George" she walled, twill it be
so long as that : So long, so long 2"
He took her in his strong arms ten
derby.
Darling" he whispered,"I will make
it seven-thirty.p
And it came to pass as he had spoken
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14
WILMINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPT. ~.
The Morang NeWs editorrally makes

The Moraing Nesos editorally makes
Mr.. Patrick J. Byrne, the supcrintend-
emit of the Christiana Window Glass
Company, authority for making "it
clear that an attempt to establish free
trade or tariff for revenue in this
country is an attack upon the home OF
The American workingman; that it
means, ultimately, the herding of work
lngmen's families in tenement houses;
taking their wives from their domestic
duties, their children from the school
houses, and reducing thousands Of them
10 the condition of poorly, paid laborers
in the factories and on the Streets
Now, we do not imagine that Mr..
Byrne, whose position indicates that he
must not only be thorough mechanic
but also an intelligent and well-informed
man, ever made any such prediction.
He knows, of course, that we have had
revenue tariffs in this country and that
no such things happened under them,
and he knows that the worst industrial
depression the American people ever
went through-the paralyzing panic
which began in 1s73-occurred under q
high protective tariff.
Yet, judging from the picture drawn
by the Nescs, one unfamiliar with
American industrial history might well
suppose that women welding the pick
and shovel and trundling wheelbarrows
laden with earth and stone on the streets
Of Wilmington were familiar sight
during the revenue tariff years before
the war
Specifically as to glass manufacture,
It may be instructive to the Morning
Netos to inform itself as to what changes
the Mills bill-which is about as near as
we can come to revenue tariff under
existing conditions-proposed in thu
duties. They were very slight; on som,
grades of crown and cylinder glass tn,
Mills bill retained the existing rates I'm
changed; on others the reduction pro
posed was measured by fraction of one
cent per pound, the greatest reduction il
this list being from 20 to . cents pc
pound, equivalent to about 16 cents OIL
The dollar. Was this free trade?
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14

A Louisville & Nashville railroad
statement shows that between July list
and September 7th the gross earnings
fell of $63l,777 from those OF the cor
responding period last year.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14

ST. GEORGES HALL ana F y@;I BOYS : =.
ST. George's, Nd, Prof. j. q. Kinsnr, a. NJ
Prin. College or business. Noted for thoromEh.
meas, noalth, comfort, situation. SITS te
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14

son the very day that the committee
on ways and means began tariff hear
ings, large number of iron mills and
textile factories started up again." says
the New York Boe1aing Post "This
was most ill-advised action, and the Re-
publicanism Of any manufacturer guilty
Of it will be open to suspicion. Is the
country to be given to understand that
rails can be made and cars built and
hosiery knitted and cloth woven with
The preparations for a new tariff going
On SYSTEMATICALLY at Washington If
such things can be, than is the protec-
ZIONIST faith vain and the Iri6uacS
preaching vain. If the mills were shut
ting down, as it solemnly assured us a
few weeks ago, solely on account of the
vague talk about new tariff, how can
they take courage to start up again
when the talk has passed into certainty
with the appointment of the committee
on ways and means and its prompt
buckling down to work? On the
Tribune theory, this should have de
stroyed the last shred of confidence and
Ihut up all the rest of the mills instead
Of opening the closed ones.o
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14
SPECIAL
OFFERING!
MITCHELL & BASH,
2l9 MARKET STREET.


ourrespectfulcon-
the follow
ing speciol lots Of
goodsbig lots, odd /
lots, all sorts Of lots |
will be put out at the
quickest price yet.
We make a deter
mined effort to close
the stock evenly. .
How shall we do it?
Take the Mems SC. Hose,
with double heels, that made so
much talk; make the price
sc.
So it goes.
&c.
Real Leather Belt, tans and
black; worth I5c.
Csc.
Fancy Leather Belt, English
cut; worth soc.
1920.
Ladies' Initial Hemstitched
Handkerchiefs, extra large;
worth zoe.
lOC.
Ladies' Stainless Black Stock
ings, quality number 6667, well
known; leader at I2Hc.
lOc.
Mems Seamless Socks, tans,
electrics; formerly I5c.
lOc.
School companions, holder,
pencil, ruler, lock and key,
pretty box; worth 25c.
SOC.
Double School Bag, cloth, initial
and artistically embroidered,
two nickle rings, chain, all COM
plete.
2lC.
Feather Collarettes, formerly
45c.
SOC.
Feather Boas, 3 yards long;
former price $3.50.
csc.
Feather Boas, 3 yards long,
fancy, in natures own color
ings; former price $500.
$l.9S.
Feathered Boas, 8 yards long,
beautiful feathers, nicely ar
ranged, very full; altogether
well worth its former price, VIII
$500.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14
lOc.

School companions, pen holder,
pencil, ruler, lock and key,
pretty box; worth csc.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14

Any schoolboy, however, can inform
the Netos that there was once time
when the American people not only
manufactured glass without any "pro-
lection" but absolutely refused to pay
any import duties on foreign glass. The
history of American glass-making dates
back to the establishment of factory in
Jamestown in 1746, and Boston began
to make glass with the beginning of the
present century. Among the grievances
which brought on the American revolu-
ton was the passage of bill by the
British parliament, in 1867, taxing i'm
ports into the colonies of glass, paper,
painters colors, lead and tea" The
colonies Kicked SO hard that threeYyears
later the British ministry took off all
duties except that on tea, and we all
remember what happened to that taxed
tea-taxed at three-pence pound-in
Boston harbor.
Our revolutionary forefathers were
such uncompromising free-traders that
hhSg bUhhNA tObObucI ~
leagues pledged not TO buy any of the
glass, painters colors, paper, lead and
tea sent over from England until the
import duties were remitted, and, after
the duties had been RENTED on all these
articles with the single exception of tea,
they went to war rather than submit
even to that trifling tax. OF course ii
was not the small amount of money in
volved, but the principle that they op.
posed. But they had not learned the
beauties and blessings of the "protec,
tive" system of taxation.
However. as John Sherman has said
there is now no question of protection
Or free trade, since it would be beyont
the wit of man to frame tariff system
yielding an annual revenue Of $3.50,
100000 without amply protecting every
American industry. And the las
treasury report estimates that it will b,
necessary to raise $210,000,0Oo from
customs duties for the next fiscal year
1t will be a long time before we &c
down to John Sherman's figures.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14
Soc.

Double School Bag, cloth, initial
and artistically embroidered,
two nickle rings, chain, all COM
plete.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14
lC)C..

Mems Seamless Socks, tans,
eiectrics; formerly I5c.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14

Feathered Boas, 3 yards long,
beautiful feathers, nicely ar
ranged, very full; altogether
well worth its former price, VIII
$500.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14

john WANAMAKER.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14
The Largest Fact

in this seasons announcement
is that
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-14

Ladies' Stainless Black Stock
ings, quality number 6667, well
known; a leader at I2Hc.