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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-27
PRICE ONE CENT,
CHERIFF'S SAI.E-By virtue OF Q wrio
- of Levari Facias to me directed, will
be exposed to public sale, at the hotel
of James l.. Dickinson, at Townsend, Ape
poquinimink hundred. New Castle county,
Delaware.
ON FRIDAY,
THE eth DAY OF APRIL. 1895,
AT 10 o'clock. a. M.

The following described real estate, vizs
A that farm or tract OF land situate in
Blaekbird hundred. In New Castle coun-
ty Delaware. Beginning at a point ID
the centre of the bridge by which the
public road leading from Smyrna Land
ing TO the Tho rough Neck road crosses
over Morris branch and running themes
with the centre of said FIR t-mentioned
public road as follows. to wilt: North Y4H
degrees west ~ perches north 201 de.
grees west 90 pelches aud north rs do.
grees west 70 4-i0 perches TO lands of Ben.
1amin +. g. Rothwell; thence with said
land north 81 degrees east SO perch, q
thence stiil with said land south 20 de-
grees east 81 pereEes to the centre of Nor.
ris branch. and thence up the centre OF
said branch soulhwesterly about q
p rches TO the place Of begianing, con.
tanning fifty-fiYe acres, two roode and
three perches OF land. more or less, with
q house and barn and other outbu i'dine
thereon erected.
Seiztd and taken in execution as the
property of George C.Kothwell aud Sailie
Rothwell. his wife. and t. is and TO be
sold by
PIERCE GOULD, Sheriff.
=. sherif's Office. Wilmington. Del. MARCH,,
q, 1898. me2
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-08-17
DRINK AND CRIME.
Historic Facts Regarding the Rum Curse
In England.

the masses, and Mr.. Lecky, in his
History of the Eighteenth Century,"
draws terrible picture of the way in
which 1.-THE fatal passion for drink was
at once and irrevocably planted in the
nation" On that account he fixes on
that year as one of the blacklist and
most fatal epochs in English history.
And are we now to be told that drink
in those days did not cause crimeT
One may suppose that the grand jury
of MiddleseX were under no such utter
delusion, for soon after 1924 they sent
in powerful presentment in which
they declared that much the greatest
part of the poverty, the robberies, and
the murders of London might be at
tributed to drink"
In 1850 the London physicians also
drew up memorial, and said that
there were then fourteen thousand
cases of fatal illness due to gin alone
At the same time Bishop Bension, of
Gloucester, one of the best bishops on the
bench, used these words so dramat teal
ly the opposite of Mr.. Walkers insinu-
alton. Our people," he said, have
become what they never were before
cruel and inhuman. These accursed
liquors which, to the shame of our gov
eminent, are SO easily to be had have
changed their very nature"
At the same time the whole bench of
bishops interposed the unsullied purity
of their lawn between the nation and
the curse of the drink traffic, as, in
these days, our judges have interposed
the stainless sanctity of their crime. "
They protested against the gin act as
founded on the indulgence of de-
bauchery, the encouragement of crime,
and the destruction of the human
race" Lastly, John Wesley was far
from thinking .of those days, as Mr.
Walker now thinks that lit would
have been palpable absurdity to speak
of a relationship of cause and effect
between drink and crime" He said:
But all who sell drains or spurious
liquors in the common way to any that
will buy are prisoners general. They
drive men to hell like sheep A curse
is in the midst of them. "-Archdeacon
Farrar, in Fortnightly Review.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-08-17

The Roman emperor who used to di-
vert himself by impaling flies on his
stylus or pen, has modern imitator
in an Austrian judge. This eccentric
jurist derives great pleasure from
catching flies in the palm Of his hand
while hearing arguments on the bench.
1t is always instructive to consider the
tastes and amusements of the truly
great. One of llarvards most cele-
brated professors, the author OF works
on botany with which every schoolboy
il familiar, used to find keen delight in
catching mice with his fingers. An
other Harvard professor, whose erudi-
ton has made him famous in Europe
as well as in America, says that the
most delicious of all odors that please
the nostris of man is the incense that
rises from IL cooks frying pam. Y.
World
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-08-17
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
ENGLAND's OPIUM TRADE.
The Terrible Drug Made In India Under
Official Supervision.

Official Supervision.
81 recently visited the largest opium
farm in the world" said New
York druggist. Some fifteen years
ago philanthropists were indignant to
learn that $4,000 acres of land, hitherto
uncultivated, in Mozambique, and be-
longing to the Portuguese, had been
granted to a British and Anglo-Indian
company, having capital of 200, 900
pounds sterling, for raising peoples
and making opium. The company had
procured the exclusive right to export
opium, free of duty, through all the
custom houses of the province of Mo-
zambique, and was conducting lucra-
tive trade. Considering the manifold
evils which opium has caused in Asia,
particularly in China, the increase of
the drug, and the increase of it's SNUG
Cling into that country, is justly re-
garded by philanthropists as a great
wrong to humanity. They say that
the Anglo-Indian government should
be held responsible for the deleterious
opium trade. There is a district of
1900 square miles on the banks of the
Gauges where the poppy is exclusively
cultivated, and its growth is encour-
aged in more southern parts of
Hindostan. The plant, sold to the officer
of the Indian government at fixed
price, is made into opium under super
vision of the government at the queens
factories in Patna and Ghazipore, sent
to Calcutta, and there bought by mer-
chants who smuggle it Wholesale into
China. Out of about 10000 chests of
opium made annually in India 90, 900
chests are consumed in China, the re-
mainder going to Burmah and the
islands in the Straits of Malacca. The
tax on the opium sent into China
amounts to some 100000, 900, which
goes into the treasury of British India.
The Chinese authorities in 1889 de-
manded the surrender of all the opium
in the factories of Canton and seized
some $4,000 chests. The result was
desultory war, resulting in the capture
of Canton and other ports. The trans
fer of Hongkong to the English, the
payment to them of 96, 600. 900 as in
demnity, and their continued comfy
ance at the opium trade, which they
are steadily increasing. Nobody ex-
poets John Bull to be any better than
his neighbors, despite his pretense and
preaching. But since he is as he is his
sins would be less conspicuous and less
odious if he could be persuaded to lay
4 moderate portion of his intolerable
cant. His boosted efforts to civilize
and Christianize the world are rather
inconsistent with his sustainment and
extension of the opium trade, really, as
it is carried on in Asia, crime against
the human race."-Chicago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-08-17

ton. So far as is known, the oxidation
of alcohol resolves it into either
aldehyde, carbon dioxide and water. or
acetic acid, and evolution of heat.
Consequently, if alcohol underwent
oxidation in the system some increase
of one or all of these products should
have been uniformly found, either in
the blood, the exhaled air, or in the
other excretions- But instead, the
most accurate and numerous investiga-
tions show less carbon dioxide in the
exhaled air, less temperature of the
body, and neither acetic acid nor
aldehyde in the blood.
And yet the puzzled investigators
turn and say that, inasmuch as the
alcohol disappears in the system and
can not be all regained from the
secretions and eliminations in limit
ed time. it must have been oxidized
and converted into some kind of force.
Bnt what force? Certainly not nerve
force, mental force, muscular force,
heat force or metabolic force; for all
of these are directly diminished by its
presence. The only force found opera
tive in the case, is the superior affinity
of the alcohol for the hemaglobin,
albumen, and water of the blood; and
its toxic power to so modify their mole
cular condition and properties as to
diminish their efficiency in receiving
and conveying the oxygen from the
pulmonary to the systemic capillaries,
and thereby imparing all the vital pro-
cesses in which the presence of oxygen
is required.
This view also affords a rational ex-
PLANTATION of the numerous PATHOLOGY
cal changes everywhere recognized as
resulting from the habitual use of
alcoholic drinks, even in the most
moderate quantities. These changes
were well exposed in the celebrated
discussion on chronic alcoholism by
the Pathological society of London,
only two years since, and are easily
found on the pages of our medical
literature. DR. n. $. Davis, in Nation
al Temperance Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-08-17
BITS AND BREVlTIES.

IT cost Ireland last year $40 900, 900
more for Intoxicating liquors than for
rent.
The duties on drink in France last
wear reached the enormous sum of four
hundred and seventy million tifty-three
thousand three hundred and twenty
five francs.
IN late debate in the German Reich
stag, it was stated that there are at
present eleven thousand persons in
hospitals in Germany who are suffering
from delirium tremens.
The Goth annual report of the Lon
don temperance hospital shows that
out of the $50 in patients admitted in
1892 $40 were cured, and only "a died;
there was in addition 4, 107 Outpatients
Only one case of the medicinal use Of
alcohol occurred last year, and there
have only been - such cases, out of
s, 500 cases treated, during the hospital 5
existence.
Mr.. CALVIN E. KEACH estimates that
three million of homes in this nation
are affected by the drink curse. and
that each home averages four persons.
lie shows how the 5000, 900, 00O spent for
liquor would furnish these twelve
millions Of people with food, fuel
clothing and comfortable house, and
manufacturers and farmers be cores
pondingly benefited by the demand for
5000. 900, 900 worth Of supplies.
THERE is law against selling
whisky to the Indians in Alaska, yet
fully two hundred barrels of the stuff
is sold there by the whalers and sealers
every year. When the steamer Aus
tralia leaves for Honolulu part of her
cargo will consist of tfty-fve barrels Of
whisky, and it is an open secret that it
is sent down to be placed on the whal-
ers bound to Behring sea. The liquor
is doctored and adulterated, so that by
the time it reaches Alaska it has
doubled in quantity, and is a tirst-class
article of 'chain lightning" The In
dams will give everything they possess
for the whisky, and the captains find it
far better than gold in trading with
the nativeA
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-08-17
AN ENORMOUS ENDLESS CHAIN.
The Rapid Handling of Logs In the North
west of Maine.


Up in the northwest wilderness Of
Maine some capitalists, who have
bought the timber lands Of seven town
ships are constructing an enormous
endless chain, worked by forty horse
power engines, to convey their logs
over two thousand five hundred feet of
decline to the waters of Carry brook,
by which they are to be swept into
Moosehead Lake, and eventually reach
the mills at Gardiner by way Of the
Kennebec. The chain begins at the
edge of a dam which has been formed
across the Penobscot at Seboomook.
Here the logs are collected. The chain
is of steel with links foot long.
Every eight feet there is chair" or
a bar running across the chain, and
on either end of the bar are iron stand
ards to hold the log in place. The
chain runs in trough, and the log
rests on the chain and is held in place
by the iron standards. The motor
power will be two forty horsepower
engines. One will be located in the
center, and one at the further end Of
the stretch, and it is believed that the
chain will move at the rate of two
hundred feet Il minute. While this
system of handling lumber is by no
means novel, speeding an endless chain
at any such a rate is new, but compe-
tent engineers pronounce it possible.
1t is expected that it will carry eight
thousand pieces or one million feet,
every twenty-four hours. 1t is esti-
mated that it will cost not far From
twenty-five cents per thousand 70 carry
the logs--St. Louis Republic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-08-17
THE KINDS OF INSECTS.
Some Scientific Information on Beetles
and Bugs.

Some Scientific Information on Beetles
and Bugs.
The great majority of persons have
no idea of the numerous and singular
forms of insects. They are all called
bugs" by most people, yet not one
tenth of their number are really bugs.
These latter are classed by themselves
and are called FIemipsera. Beetles are
not bugs, being totally different things,
and form what are known as the Cole
optcra, which means sheath wing, be-
cause of the two large plates on the
back that cover the true wings, which
consist of thin membrane. These COW
ers are called elytra. The butterflies
and moths form another one of these
orders, being called Lepidoptera, or
scale-wing, on account of the tiny
scales with which the wings are COW
cred. No doubt many of the readers
of this article have noticed the pow
derry substance which comes off but
terhy or moth on handling it. These
are the scales, and, should any reader
possess a microscope and place the
wing or part of one under it, ! think
he Will pc repair LOT HIS JTOuDlt' ne
dragon flies and devils needles"
form the order Neuroptera, which
means vein-winged. SO it is witch the
flies and the bees, wasps and ants, the
flies being called Diptera, i. e., two
winged. and the bees. wasps AID ants,
Hymenoptera or membrane wing. IL
will probably be said by some that
ants have no wings; but this is only
the case with what are called neuters,
or workers, the males and females
being provided with wings. The total
number of different kinds Of insects
that are known at present is over two
hundred thousand, of which beetles
alone number one hundred and twenty
thousand-this being about twice as
many as all the other known animals
together. 1t is estimated that the
actual number Of different kinds Of in
sects in the world is over one million.
William j. Fox, in Popular Science
Monthly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-08-17

Almost all the varieties of laces
named are made by machinery, with
more or less success, as already noted. .
The prettiest white cotton laces made
by machine are those which initiate
Mechlin. These are sometimes hand
run: that is the pattern is produced by
outlining it in running stitches with a
thread and needle. Black Spanish
laces are also hand run. Escurial Span
ish lace is "a specimen of machine-made
lace where the pattern is outlined by a
satin cord Genoa lace, or guipure do
Genes, is creamy white lace, made by
machinery in the pattern Of the old
ecrlt laces of Genoa 1t is also charac-
terized by the purling design Of gui-
pure and is very effective. 1t is found
in ecru and pure white. Some Of the
prettiest and most durable white cot
ton laces are simply embroderies on q
white cotton net Among such may be
mentioned the varieties of oriental
lace and Pompadour lace.-Good House
l..
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-08-17

81 suppose it j. all right to call ocean
eyhounds marine CANNES" said the
Horse Editor.
perhaps So replied the Snake Ed
itor, but the swift stcamefs must not
monopolizc that term
"No?'
"Of course not. Beside the ocean
eyhounds, there are many other
barIfs on the sea. ''-Pittsburgh Chron-
leila
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-08-17
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-Judge-"At what age were you
married." She-"At the parsonage"
-Arl1ansaw Traveller.
"A Good Way.-Customer-"Wh
kind of story is this? 1t begins in the
last chapter" Clerk-"It was written
exclusively for women" - Yankee
Blade.
WHO says two heads are better
than one?" exclaimed Jaggs, as he
woke up the next morning and took a
dose of bromo-soda. -Philadelphia Rec
ord.
"A Man of Ability. --Chollie-"Can you
recognize ability when you see it, Miss
Ruth?" Miss Ruth Cooking around)-
Certainly; where is any?'-Detroit
Free Press.
-Maude-"Yes, am obliged to have
my shoes made to order. My left foot
is larger than the right" Ethel-''Is
it ossible?'-Boston Transcript.
Personal friend of author-''The
ode to the Columbian Exposition is not
bad, is it?" Cautious critic-"Well-
not in the sense of being IMMORAL
Worlds Fair Puck.
-She-"That dress she had on at the
ball last night ruined hundred-dollar
bill He-"I thought it must have
been cut out of something about that
size. Inter Ocean.
-Hills-"How are you succeeding as
an amateur photographers" Hulls-
"Capitally | have taken seventeen
plates SO far, and only sixteen were
failures. IN. Y. Times.
First cranl-"Where do you sup
pose that pitcher ever acquired such n
slow delivery?" Second crank-"lt
isn't acquired. It's natural He used
to be messenger boy" Troy Press.
-Bertie-''You say he called you a
donkey! What did you do?" Fred
Nothing" Bertie-"Well, if man
called me donkey I'd kick him with
both feet" Fred-'Just so. Any
donkey would do that.'-Tit- Bits.
-Skiggs-"Must be something inter-
esting you are reading What is it?"
Skaggs-"Long account telling how a
man was robbed on car" Skiggs-
"TIumph Wagner OF Pullman"'-
Buffalo Courier.
-Kate-"Why do you encourage that
stupid Mr.. Mutf?" Florence-"Fido,
you know, hasn't been well for long
time and" "Well, what has that
to do with it?" ''They are so con-
genial. Inter Ocean.
Re form in Sight.-Ten Book
What would be the result il it were
the custom for women to propose i'm
stead of men""-Una Lloyd-'"There
would be fewer engagements and more
marriages. -Puck.
What He Wanted. Manager crush
ing into station house excitedly)-"I
want detective right away! My star
has been robbed of all her jewelry"
Sergeant-"You don't need any detec-
tive then; you want a reporter."-
Brooklyn Life.
Mrs. Rocksey-"My Danny wuz
agoin' to make n dollhouse and he
went and asked Stubby, the carpenter,
the easiest way to do it," Mrs. Dineen
-"Phwat did he say? Mrs. Rocksey-
"He told him to give the baby box of
matches to play with. "-Raymond's
Monthly.
Fear Conquered.-M Blank-"DO
you remember, dear that before we
| were married, you always offered me
your left ARM" Mr.. Blanlx--"Yes; I
wanted to have my right hand free
| You see, had lovers fear that some
one would try to take you away from
me, and | always kept it in readiness
for Defence How sweet, But how
is it that now you generally offer me
your right arm?' "Well, | am not SO
afraid as | was. Yankee Blade.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-08-17

"Will the gentlemen please move up
forward little?" calied out the polite
conductor.
Il won't" growled Mr.. Grump, who
hung 10 a strap near the door.
80, you needn't | asked only the
gentlemen. Truth.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1893-07-20
a Small Farm that Paid.

| Ruel W. Sawtelle, of Dixmont, has DEM
onstrated the fact that small farms, well
managed, pay. Ia 1856 Mr. Sawtelle, who
Is confirmed invalid, purchased the home
stead of Nellie Bickford; the farm con-
sisted of forty acres with small orchard
of mixed fruit. Mr.. Sawtelle; who is in
terested in the production of fruit has
started thousand trees. He has grated
his orchard to standard winter fruit The
past season he has grated and planted 275
| trees. He also has variety Of small fruit
| aud grapes, and the cleanest and best kept
strawberry patch in this part of the coun-
try.
Mr.. Sawtelle pays considerable attention
to dairying and poultry raising He also
has vegetable garden containing a good
variety of all kinds generally raised in
garden. His garden is model of neat
ness, the work OF his own hands. Never
weed is allowed to grow there.
Mr.. Sawtelle's three cows, grade JERSEYS
Che believes in Jerseys for butter). have
produced 1874 pounds of butter since April
n, which has been dressed by his daugh
ter, fifteen years of age. Mr.. Sswtele
has about nifty hens, which pay him we'll
He contemplatcs keeping loo hens the com
ing winter, a. he thinks that there is pro
lit in them if well attended
He has ls5 chickens with i've more hens
setting. He has invented feeder which
opens on the approach Of the hens and
closes on their departure. II will exclude
rain and all vermin and no waste OF food
He has a Plymouth Rock ami Leghorn hen
that produced the other day an egg that
measured two and seven eighths ia length
and two inches in diameter. This hen has
yielded large eggs frequently
Mr. Sawtelle, although paralyzed SO that
he has to call his hens with a bell. hls
speech being affected badly, yet displays
energy, ambition and skill in improving
his buildings. farm and home that would
be good example for many well MAJ,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1893-07-20

There Is no more profitable season for
newspaper advertising than during i gen
eraI business depression. when paulCkv
feeling exists ana the great mass Of people
feel lmpelled 10 economic in every pos
sitie way
When such conditions exist the bargain
announcements OF the merchants are uu-
usually attractive, and many man or
woman who ordinarily trades with some
personal friend or al Il Store a little more
convenient than others, VIII wax several
blocks to save dime or nickel.
The merchant, too, owing - dull
trade, makes additional efforts 10 tide over
the stTlngency, and the bargains nr offers
the public are real and desirable H., must
have money 10 meet his expenses, and first
cost of wares Is not the most important
consideration.
During the dull seasons the general pub
He has more time to read the newspapers,
and so The publishers can offer the adver-
tlsers an increased circulation, and con
sequentY more for his money. just a the
advertiser offers the public iuCrea- ed
values in exchange for THE much-ueed,d
cash. 50 that there is mutual advantage
to the people, the merchant and the PUB
Usher
Hence il Is that even duh season Ia,
lis direct advantages 10 those wno have
pluck and sense, not to mention the value
OF the practical lesson in economy 50
much needed when We drift into ex1raya-
CANT ways GO0nSocket T. r. l. Reporter