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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16

GOLDEN, Coll, Aug. 9.-W. II.
Copp!e, the Worlds champion 2o0.yard
runner, was beaten in 200.yard race
here yesterday by an unknown who
gave the name OF Adams, but is supposed
to be Jack Gibson, ex-champion runner
of England, Adams had six feet start
and won by four feet in 1O5 seconds.
Several thousand dollars changed hands
on the result.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16

TRENTON, N. j., Aug. 9.-Thc execu.
tive committee of the Operative Potters
National Union has adopted resolutions
commencing Senator Smith of New
Jersey for the stand he has taken upon
the pending tariff question in favor of
high duties and expressing great in
dignation over the criticisms which
have been made upon him because Of
his course in that direction.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16

MosEA, COL, Aug. "a most sur
prising strike of free milling gold ore
has been made in the AMMO Lode, Is
miles east of here, by the Fullenwider
Brothers. Assays have been made. with
the astonishing result of E42,oU0 per
ton. Tho gold is found in honcycomb
quartz, easily worked, almost crushing
in the hands. Much OF it is visible to
the naked eye.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16
GAZE HER LIRE ron HER oHILD.
But Mother and Child Both Died From
Frightiul Burns,

SELMA, ALA, Aug. 10.-News has
reached the city of the horrible death of
Betty Simkins and her babe, near Pine
lucky.
The mother was awakened by flames.
Half-crazed she ran out, but later
thought of her baby and rushed into the
burning building.
She came out with her child in her
arms and her clothing in flames, hut fell
and without a word expired. The child
lived only an hour.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16
THREE BALLS OF FIRE.
Startling Accompaniment to nm EIectr
cal storm In Colorado.

CREpE, Coll, Aug. 9.-During rain
storm last night the sky became very
vivid with electrical flashes and thunder
rolled in most deafening way, With
three lightning bolts what appeared to
be three balls Of fire, each as large as
mans two fists, struck the ground
simultaneously, within radius OF so
feet.
AS soon as they struck there was a
shock and the balls burst, throwing out
innumerable sparks. The inhabitants
experienced great scare, but no damage
was done.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16
-
SH0T FROM AMBUSH.
A Probable Murder and Distressing
Runaway Casualty in West Virginia.

~
CHARLESTON, w. VA, Aug. 1O.-Dr.
J. William Davis, a prominent Mont
gomery physician, was shot at three
times from ambush yesterday, while re-
turning from his visiting patient on
Morris creek. One ball passed through
his stomach, inflicting probable fatal
wound. No clew whatever TO the
assassin.
G. 9. Martin and daughter, Mrs. Muir.
rell Milton, with two infant children
were driving near Evergreen. The
horse is supposed to have scared and to
run of.
Mr. Martin was found in the road
dead with his head mashed. Mrs. Mil.
ton was unconscious and died at 10
O'Clock yesterday morning. Neither
child was hurt.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16
4 YOUNG MURDER Ess.
Lizzie Daniels, Aged Ia Years. Kills Miss
:" Menrer, 10 Years of Age.

ScoTTDALE, Pa, Aug. o. = Lizzie
Daniels, IA years old, last evening shot
and instantly killed Miss Weaver, aged
IL. The girls had been swinging in II
grove nearby and got into quarrel.
When they returned home Lizzie pro.
cured revolver and shot her compan-
ion through the left eye, the bullet en-
tering the brain.
The Daniels girl had previously
threatened to kill Miss Weaver and two
Of the latter's brothers. The youthful
homicide is now in jail
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16
H4U.4II RECOGNIZED.


Cleveland on the Way to President
Dole.
WASHINGTON, Aug. GA letter of
congratulation and greeting from Presi-
dent Cleveland, in the name of the
United States, is on the way from
Washington to President Dole of the
Hawaiian Republic.
The recognition of the new republic
was finally decided upon this week, and
the message framed and mailed yes
terday through the regular channels.
With the letter of greeting to Presi-
dent Dole, which Of course passes
through the hands of Minister Willis,
was sent letter to Minister Willis,
ratifying his action in Professionally ex-
tending the usual recognition to the re-
public .
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16

NEW YoRK, Aug. 0.-Charles Miller,
awaiting trial for the murder of August
Loefller, Waterman in Heyde's candy
factory, about three months ago, cut his
throat in his cell in the Tombs to-day
and will probably die.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16
WATERMELON SEASON IN DIRK
TOWN.


Written for Gazette and journal
Git wa dar, Cuff
Don't yer neber git nuff2
Git way dis my mellin;
Don't you hiar me tellin?
Gwne ter eat it all alone,
Watermllins hab ITO bone!
Postum Don't say dat;
Wouldn't glib scat
For postum jest now,
An watermillin anyhow;
Dun beat de coon,
Mornin' or noon.
Go wa wild possum
Wen dc Mullins blossom;
Go wa wild coon,
Mornin', mite or noon;
Ciu wa wild tripe
When watermillins ripe!
Go wa wild hacker,
Take wa de cracker,
Go wa wild apple
Take wa dc scrapple
Wutermillin! hush
Yer make de millin blushl
Wen de darkness settle,
An de skeeter nettle,
Marster gone to bed,
An de pigs is fed,
Slip down i'll de patch
Glib de fruit snatch.
Tap EN- OH de side!
Hear i'm screatnin's wide,
PUNK PUNK Plunk
Man yer make me drunk
Pull lie lids apart
Stab i'm To de hart! .."."
Go wa Niger Go wa dar
Dis mi milling don't you hiar2
Go in lie room lock de door
Frow yerself on de floor,
Eat and eat Millin dun gone!
Sleep sweet and dream till early in de morn!
CLAYMoHr, DEL, Aug. sth, 1891.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16

QUEENSTOWN, IRE, Aug. "a mum.
Der of passengers who landed from the
White Star steamer Britannia, which
arrived here last night from New York,
We're fined for smuggling tobacco. John
Slattery, whose clothing was found to
be lined with cigars was fined El2.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16
-iTT.iINM EST.
Philip I,urrougns strong.

The poet writes lay
In numbers all unsought,
Then labors, day by day,
10 beautify his thought.
Slowly he tolls and long,
Improving here and there;
Daily lie gives his song
Some added feature fair.
Ever its beauty grows.
Till what at first was crude
Is. ut his labor's close,
With rarest charms endued.
Thus, like poem sweet
Beneath a masters hand,
Our lives, so incomplete,
May grow sublime and grand.
Ever may we more grace
OF character unfold;
Each hour, that iiies apace,
May nobler things behold.
Our lives sweet songs may be,
Each day a loftier strain,
Till heavens own harmony
Our souls at last attain.
Democrats Magazine.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16

ST. JOSEPH, Mich, Aug. 10.-Miss
Bernie Mayer and Miss Bainhart, two
members OF a party OF resorters, were
drowned in Lake Michigan, near
Stevensville, yesterday. The life-savinS
crew were unable to rescue them.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16
Ended LILO by Drlnl,lng chloroform.

LANCASTER, PA. Aug. 9.-Johu Smith,
a PHILADELPHIA cigarmaker, committed
suicide last evening ut Terre Hill, this
county, by drinking quantity of
chloroform. The cause is ascribed to
dependency over lack of employment.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16
Coro uurned BEYOND Hope.

OMAHA, NEE, Aug, 10.-Reports from
various portions of the State indicate the
prevalence of extremely hot winds and
all corn not destroyed by the previous
drought is now thought to be beyond
hope,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16

PITrsBuEd, Pa, Aug, 1O.-Nicholas
Paliski, u crazy Italian, 30 years old,
jumped off the Point bridge into the
Ohio river while fleeing from imaginary
pursuers. The fall was 70 feet, but
when the man was fishcd out of the
water he was absolutely uninjured.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16
NEARLY A CENTURY Hence
Masonic Records to Be Sealed
Until the Year 1850.
THEN TO Be OPENED IN TOPEKA
To Show the Importance of
Preserving Records.

Historical and Other Data Relating to
the Early History of Cryptic Masonry
and to Its Present Status, to BE Pre-
served for the Use OF Future Genera
tiOns-aiaryland's Contribution.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16

no you have headache, dizziness. drowsiness,
loss OF appetite and other symptoms of bill
tousnessf Hoods Sarsaparilla viii cure you.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16
HER MINE.

x.
At ten, the ,maiden's name
To her frief Is was simply Name.
E XII.
It began b twelve to vary,
And she always signed it Mary.
XIV.
On her fourteenth natal day
She commenced to write it May.
NNIII.
And now ut twenty-three
She is known as sweet Marie
Truth.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05

a house in which there is no ORDERLY
routine is very uncomfortable place,
no doubt, but too much order may be
equally disagreeable and wearing.
the nerves of the family being rasped
as were those of the people who lived
with Il. Wilfer's wife.
People to whom order is not the
means to desired end, but the end
itself give themselves and others a
great deal OF needless trouble. A
chair or book out of place 'distresses
them. A. blur on the window pane
drives them to distraction unless they
can at once remove it. A meal slight
ly delayed beyond the appointed hour
loses for them its SAVIOR.
Order is their fetch. In vain their
friends beg them to be philosophical,
to try elasticity as a sort of buffer
against annoyances. They shake
their heads YEARLY aud keep on fret
ting. And the fretting marks their
foreheads and indents their lips and
writes its records on their faces. while
husband and children sigh for a little
cheerful happy o-lucky disorder.
The daughter of the over-orderly
mother is often, by the law Of reac.
ton, an absurdly unsystematic per-
sonage. -Harpers Bazaar.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05
INCIDENTS OF THE DAY.

A leading hotel of San Francisco
which operates its own electrical
supply plant places candles in all its
rooms wrapped in slips of paper bear
ing these words: '.Use this candle in
case the electric lights do not work
and you need temporary light
The pallbearers who bore the re-
mains Of Miss Huber to her grave at
Louisville were eight young girls
/ dressed from head to foot in white.
The young ladies wore white caps,
gloves dresses and shoes, the emblems
Of purity. Naturallythey attracted a
good deal of attention, it being so un-,
usual for females to act in the capac.
ity of pallbearers.
On the train from Chicago to New
York the other day was tall, fine
looking man, with a gray mustache
and goatee. He looked every inch
parsonage There was good deal
of gossip on the train as to his identi-
ty. There were those who claimed
that he was United States senator
travelling incognito. Some one claimed
to recognize him as general in the
regular. army. Finally Il purse was
made up and given to the porter to
find out who the man was. He proved
to be drummer for wallpaper man
ufactory.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05
BITS OF FACT.

| According to statistics the total cost
Of the liquors of all kinds consumed in
this country is about SIG per capita q
year.
The rainfall OF Oklahoma has in
creased since the settlers turned up
the old buffalo grass and put in fresh
crops.
The trsks Of the largest Siberian
mammoth over dug up weighed $50
pounds.
Jcmma, favoritc name among the
Hebrews, means a dove.
The damask rose came from Damas-
Gus to South Europe in 1543.
Glycerine neither freezes nor evap-
crates.
There are fewer savings banks in
New York now than there were TWEEN.
ty years ago.
The city Of Potsdam, Germany, has
been photographed from a distance Of
three miles.
The Catholic total abstinence union
of the United States has 81, $50 mem
bers.
The original copy Of the DecIara-
ton of Independence has faded so
that it is now scarcely more than
blank.
A Passaic river naturalist and taxi
dermist makes his living by raising
owls and stuffing them for the market.
The wettest place in the world is
Cherrapingi in Assam, where the av-
erage rainfall for fifteen years has
been 493 inches. In 1861 it was 9O5. Z
Philadelphia has the finest city
clock in the world. The face, which
is ten yards in diameter, can be seen
from every part of the city. The
minute hand is fonr yards long and
the hour hand q little over half that
length.
A Milanese pianist named Gravagni
has won bet by playing for twenty
five consecutive hours without rest.
He began at II ut night and played
until midnight on the following day,
under the supervision OF jury OF
eight musicians, his selections rang
ing from Wagner to comic opera.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05

Against the inroads of that subtle, lurking foe
10 human health malaria. had been expended
cseiessly when Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
appeared upon the scene and demonstrated it's
power as preventive and curative Of the
dreaded scourge. When the, gold fever
ragged In lS49 in California, malaria was CON
temporancous with It at the ..diggngs,'' and
wrought dreadful havoc among The miners.
Then and subsequently, on the Isthmus of Pana
ma, and wherever in the tropics malarial dis.
ease Is most yirrlent, the Biiters became the
recognized safeguard. For the effects of ex-
posture and fatigue. miasma- poisoned air and
water, sea sickness and all disorders of the
stomach, liver and bowels. the Bitters affords
prompt relief. Inyalids OF all sorts win find It
fully adequate TO thei, needs 49,.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05
Highest Of ali in Lcavcnng Latest Govl Report
R!!al!! RRss%kiaes;sl!
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Prairie Memories.

Wide o'er-arcliing summer sky;
Sea-drifting grasses, rusiling reeds,
Where young grouse to their mothers cry
And iocusts pipe from wliistling weeds
Broad meadows lying like lag"ons
or sunnicss water, Oh whose swclis
Float noddng blooms to tfnklng bells
OF bol-o'linkItilis' widest tunes.
Far west winds bringing odors fresh
From mountains 'rayed rs Inonarclis ara
IN royal robes OF ice and sHow,
Where storms are bred III thumler-jsr;
Land OF cora and wheat and kline,
Where plenty fills The hand Of him
Who tills The SOL or pruncs the vine,
Or digs In thy far Canyons dim
Ny western land love thee YET.
In dreams ride nv horse again,
And breast the breezes blowing Meet
From out the meadows cold and wet.
From fields Of flowers blowing sweet,
And 1iDging perfume 10 the brceez.
The wild oats swirl along the plaui
! feel their dash against nv knees,
Like rapid p!asl Of running seas.
pass BY Islands dark and tall
With painted poplars thick with leaves,
The grass In rushing ripple e'csves
cleft and right In eineral flow:
: And as listen. riding slow,
Out breaks the wild birds iocund call.
0, shining suns Of boyhool's tmel
Z Q, winds that from the mystic west
Sang calls to Eldoraio's quest
o, swaying ad-biris thrilling chine!
When loud the city's Changing roar
Wraps in my soul, rs does q slroud.
hear those songs ami sounds once more
And dream Of hoynoods' swing swung clonds
III. 4,acyactat Nogazins
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05
Old World Theaters.

There is a theater in Paris for
every 1000 inhabitants. one in Ber-
lin for $1,000, one in Bordeaux for
$4,000. one in Buda- Pesth for SO, 600,
one in Hamburg for 113,OOJ, one in
Vienna for 1873. 1000 and one in Lon
don for 10000. There are more
theaters, proportionately to the pop
ulation, in Italy than in any other
country. there being one to $50 in
habitants in Catania, one to Is, 900 in
Florence. one to 2o,0O0 in Bologna,
one to $4,000 in Venice, one to 3D.
900 in Milan and Turin and one to
81, 900 in Rome
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05
A Costly Fan.

One of the most costly fans in New
York is that owned by Mrs Schuyler
Van Rensselaer,. 1t is valued at s 900
and was painted by Leloir, who ex-
cclled in fan painting. A fan belong
ing to New York lady and decorated
by the artist Bora depicts christen-
ing scene before a Spanish Alcalde,
while another shows a charming skat-
ing scene in the Bots de Boulogne,
painted by Lafitte. Mrs. Hicks Lord
owns some of the beauties in the line
of fans, which she wears suspended
from her waist by gold and richly
jeweled chains. Mrs. Jesse Seligman
has rare collection; SO has Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid who brought back
from Paris several costly tritles, one
formerly belonging to the Empress
Eugene. 1t is of tortoise she'll in
crusted with mother-of- pearl
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05

In France the telephone is used on
many railroad main lines. On por-
ton of the Vincennes railway a
rather novel system is in vogue by
which at a given signal on tho tele-
graph instrument the operator con
meets the telegraph wires with a
telephone for verbal communication.
The large Australian railways use
telephones which may be connected
with the telegraph wires at any point
without interrupting the Geographic
communica ions.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05
\ atch scratchers.

The lanp-post mail boxes are very
generally used as match scratchers.
In the busy parts of the town boxes
that have not been painted recently
are sometimes almost covered with
scratch marks. The cigarette smoker
as he passes rubs match along the
box to light the cigarette. 1t seems
as though the match industry must
have prospered by the general intro
duction of cigarettes.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05
German pnns wlth Almonds.

Half pint of cream, yolks of six
eggs, whites of four, one tablespoon
!nl of flour, two ounces of sweet
almonds and little orange flower
water. Beat the yolks an whites of
the eggs separately; a Id them to the
cream, then the flower which has
been previously mixed smooth in a
very little cream, and the almonds
which have been blanched and
pounded with q little orange flower
water. Beat all well together and
bake in buttered cups or tins fifteen
or twenty minutes. Serve with sauce.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05

NORMA HELD ONE OF HIS HANDS
before me in all the radiant glory of
perfect womanhood, her hair fallen
: loose about her shoulders, her figure
erect and her manner defiant and
wholly self-contained, she said to me:
Il love hin,-(iod knows love him.
He wanted me to marry him. Had /
not already risen on the wings of
knowledge to the upper air in which
wisdom and purity dwell, I should
have yielded, through my love, to the
grossness with which, an all-wise
maker has seen fit to manacle the
nobler things within us; I should
have been married 20 him, and
we should have bred like animals, and
lived in sordidness and pain, growing
grosser and more sordid every day in
the disgust or WEAKNESS which such 4
companionship must bring in time,
}groveling lower in the dust which
God has been pleased to place so thick
at our eet,sinkipg insteac OF soaring,
and finally dying without souls! l
loved your friend too well to marry
him.
4 She paused, looked down upon me
with scornful yet plying glance
from burning eyes, and l was speech
less.
''Yes, l loved him-loved him infin-
itely better than all else in this
world. loved him too well to de-
stroy him by becoming his wife. But
now am free to marry him and with
Gods help | will"
She strobe out and sent a messen-
ger somewhere in haste. and then re-
turned to me and again stool before
me. regarding me with those blazing |
eyes, from which shown light not OF |
this earth
i have sent said she, for a priest
Of my faith, who has power both to
summon the departed and to unite the t
dead and the living in holy wedlock
Your friend can be my husband now,
his abode somewhere, everywhere,
bat with God always; my abode here,
until such pleasant time as God NAV
id me Of the gross flesh and the
yrsssser qualities which bear it com
any, and tnen-and then 1--WE shall
lweu together forever, my husband |
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05
Found His Mother at Last.

About dozen years ago young
lad living at Newcastle ouTyne got
lost and was put in the workhouse.
He was apprenticed TO farmer, but
ran away to sea. and later enlisted
as soldier Finally, returning to
his native city, he discovered his
mother, who had long considere d
him dead.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05
Hot slaw.

Chop or slice very fine firm white
head of cabbage, and sprinkle lightly
with salt and pepper. Put into a
sauce pan a piece of butter the size of
an egg, and half cup of weak vine
gar, put these over the fire snt: heat.
Mix together two raw eggs, a small
cup of cream and half cup of sugar.
Stir these slowly into the heated vim
egar, add the cabbage, and cook till
thoroughly scalded.
The First Womans Rights Convention.
The earliest woman's rights conven-
ton was held at Seneca Falls, Eliza
beth Cady Stanton, Frederick Doug-
lass and Amelia Bloomer, of Bloomer
costume fame being the originators
The second was held at Rochester in
1s4s. And from those small Begin
nlngs the most radical changes of
thought and feeling about woman and
her sphere have gradually come aboaa
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05

Boil cup of rice very tender, boil
four eggs very hard, and when cold
chop them small Take the remains
of any white fish that has been pre-
viously boiled, mince it fine and mix
all we'll together, and put the mix
ture into stew pan with lump of
fresh butter: season with salt, pepper
and little cayenne. Cook it until
thoroughly hot, stirring it constantly
to prevent its burning, and serve very
hot. Use equal quantities of rice and
fish, and be careful not to make it toe
moist.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05
Neat Fireside Settecs.

On either side of the fireplace in a
certain old country home stand quaint
settees of local manufacture. They
have very high backs and slightly
projecting, sloping sides. The entire
surface is covered with thin cushion
and that with rep of dull green color.
This is put on with small brass headed
mails. There is a deep valance around
the bottom of the seat.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05
For Burns and scaids.

Burns from steam and scalds should
be treated the same as those caused
from dry heat. For a slight burn
that simply reddens the surface apply
a thick layer of cooking soda wet to a
paste. Cover with a bandage made of
old cloth and keep it wet with cold
water. When the pain subsidies re-
move the soda dressing and if any
thing more is required use vaselinc,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05
Too Much Information.

Interested Customer why, how very
curious l must have some of those
things. What do you call Them"
Affable Clerk Jumping beans, ma am. 9
We'll! well. How do Won sell them! ~
"OnlySi0 cents. Their jumping, ma am,
is due to the presence of small bnt ex-
ceedingly active worm on the inside,
which,
'.Faugh! l don't want them at ALL,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05
Home-Seekers, Excursion.

The Wabr b railroad will sell excursion
tickets Sept mbs llth and 25th and Octo-
Der 9th to pc Its south, west and north at
one fare for the rolnd trip, plus two dol
lars Good returning twenty days from
date of sale. Tor further information call
on OF address Horace Seely. Commas..isi