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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-23
Thief Gets a $1,000 Haul.

YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, Aug. 17.-The
room of Samuel II. Mensch, proprietor
of the Farmers Hotel, was entered last
night and robbed of $1,000 in cash and
diamonds. In order to do the job the
thief unlocked SIX doors and chests.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-23

Chicago Tribune.
"Mr. Blinks' office is Gu the 10th floor
Just take the elevator up"
Cornhusk-Not much, young man,
This basket of eggs an carpet-Dag is
enough for rue to carry.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-23

A 75O-horsepowor engine, builtby the
]. Morton Poole Co. for the Edison
Electric Light Co., was shipped to San
Francisco Friday. The monster ma
chine fills several cars.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-23
DANGEROUS MET4MoRPaosIs.
Ernest Graham Dewey.

HE.
IT'S but little thing ask;
A trtle, nothing more, swear.
IT'S not u heavy, grlesome task
That wrinkles brow or silyers hair;
'Tis something dear, that if you give,
You cannot fairly deem amiss.
SHE.
IT'S nothing more than. as live,
A little, simple. single kiss.
This liltle thing you boldly ask;
Ills tribe light, To you, as air.
Perhaps to me doth fears uninask
That well may catlse me to beware,
For thus same simple, single kiss
Might soon develop into kisses;
And |, from having been aniss,
Become, in consequence, Mrs.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-23

YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, Aug. 17.-Lizzie
Lanning, Philadelphia variety actress,
aged 40 years, died suddenly to-day
while visiting her mother at this place.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-23

The Arlington mills are now running
full turn with plenty Of work IN hand.
The employees are all pleased ut the
prospect.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-23
c.lNARpS REPEpt4rEp.


citation Deny Statements Made About
Their Organization.
Frank p. Phalen, president, and
several members of the shields Library
Association, called at THE GAZETTE
Office to repudiate, in emphatic terms,
certain published statements made about
their organization and the campaign for
the Democratic Congressional nomina-
ton. They deny, most positively, that
any of their members are taking part in
the canvass from feelings of hostility on
religious grounds to any of the gentle
men whose names have been mentioned
in connection with the nomination for
Congress, or that their organization is
involved in the campaign in the slightest
degree. 1t is literary and not political
organization, embracing in its member.
ship men of all political faiths, while
its constitution expressly prohibits any
connection Of the association with
political affairs,
THEY ARE NOT KICKING.
John J. Miller, who was candidate
in the Tenth ward for delegate to the
Democratic convention, at Saturday
weeks election, called at THE GAZETTE
office last night week, accompanied by
his main supporters ut the polls, and
emphatically denied, in toto, the pub
lished assertions that he was dissatisfied
at the result of the election and pro-
posed to make Il contest.
"rhcy are entirely false" he said,
$50 far as | and my friends are con-
cerned-and we claim to be the Tenth
ward workers during election times. 81
was not pledged man to j. Harvey
Whiteman or any other candidate.
"Neither | nor my friends have any
objection to the delegate election as it
has turned out. We are not dissatisfied
with the result. 1t is false to say we are
agtating for new election. We had
not and have not the slightest idea of
opposing the successful nominee. We
know nothing whatever of those asser-
tions i'll regard to the successful candi-
date for delegate having been chosen in
the interest of any particular candidate,
and do not propose to be held re-
sponsible for them"
Sixth ward Democrats also deny that
there is any trouble or dissatisfaction
over the election of John Bradley as
delegate to the Democratic State Con-
vention from that ward. The ex-
preston in favor Of Mr.. Bradley for
delegate was unanimous, and he goes to
the convention uninstructed aud un-
pledged.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-23
wooDLAwN CAMP.

ELKToN, MD, Aug. 1G.-This was
Epworth League Day at Woodlawn
Camp and the attendance was very
large. Nearly all the leagues in the
county were represented, aud addresses
were delivered by tho Rev. Isaac L..
Wood, pastor of the Elkton Methodist
Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Amos
johnson of Columbia, Pa. The camp
was visited by heavy wind and cleo
trical storm last evening, which caused
the regular evening services to DO dis
pensed with.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1894-11-21

In New York and other large cities
stranges stories of real life come to
light almost every day, surprising in
tragic interest anything to be found
in fiction.
The other day old Thomas Branna-
gan was found dead in his home in
Brooklyn, and it was discovered
upon investigation that he had died
of starvation. Brannagan was Il rich
man. He had made and saved SIS, 900
by peddling lemons, and there was no
reason why he should not have sup
piled himself with every comfort.
But as he accumulated wealth his
misery habits grew upon him. He
owned several houses, and lived in the
poorest of them all. Years ago his
widowed daughther with her two chill.
dren sought shelter under his roof.
He worked the unfortunate woman
like slave, and forced her and her
children to live on few stale loayes
Of bread per week. One day Branna-
gan came home and found the remains
of more generous meal. This was
more than he could stand. He turned
his daughter and his grandchildren
ont of doors without penny, in the
bitter cold, and but for the kindness
of neighbors they would have per.
ished. That was years ago, and since
that time the old miser has refused
even to speak to his daughter. At
last he is dead, leaving no will behind
him and his $4,000 will 60 to the
outcasts who were driven by him into
the street to starve or freeze. If the
widow and her little ones did not en-
joy square meal when they heard
the news of their good fortune, then
they must be different from the ordlp-
ary run of mortals. Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1894-11-21
A CaIiforn Ia Forest Giant.

"Goliath" one of the largest of the
famous "big trees" of California,
measures twenty-three feet in diameter
at the ground, and twenty and half
feet eight feet further up. "Goliath'
is perfectly healthy, and solid through
out. 1t has been estimated that this
forest giant denuded of his branches
would weigh 100, 900 tons, and that it
would "saw" 10000 feet of clear
lumber. The branches and tops
would make not less than 100 cords of
wood. Heller estimates the weight of
its leaves alone at two and half tons.
Detroit Free Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1894-11-21

iron cut them of from the southern
range, and the Indians of the Cana
dian northwest, as well as those OF our
own country, barred their retreat in
to the far north, and 30 they were
hemmed in between the two, with no
possibility of escape in either direc-
ton.
10 illustrate in few words the re-
markable destruction of that section
alone it will only be necessary to say
that this last great herd was COM
pletely wiped out of existence in less
than four months, and before the close
OF the year there were but few sim
giles and pairs left as fugitives in that
vast country where but year or two
before they could have been counted
almost by the hundreds of thousands.
The shipping figures from two points
on the Yellowstone at the eud of the
season, Glendive and Miles City, show
80, 600 buffalo hides sent from the for
mer and 1S5, $50 skins of elk, antelope
and deer from the latter place. st.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1894-11-21
In the COlintru.

They had but recently been mar
ried, and the young husband was air
ing his wit before his bride. An old
deaf man, unknown to the bride, was
just passing.
81 say" said the husband, address
ing the old man, "you old bald headed
idiot, did You know your hat WASH t
on straight"
"Why, Chrrlie?" interrupted the
bride.
"Good evening"" said the old man,
halting, and unconscious OF the insult.
"May 1 ask if you saw big red calf
come along this road minute or two
ago? I've lost sight of him, but l
thought 1 heerd him holler. Life.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1894-11-21
Thc Mosquito at business

The little insect drops gently and
dalntily down on to the spot it had
selected for its attack, and the decent
of so light and airy being is likely
to leave the victim unconscious of its
presence, unless he has actually seen
1t settle. Then the proboscis is
pointed downward, and the tiny lips
that form Its tip pressed against the
flesh The bristle within the gutter
like sheath being then pressed to-
gether into one solid boring imple-
ment, their common tip is forced
down on the flesh, and as they enter
the wound, the trough in which they
were lying separates from them in the
middle, and becomes bent towards the
insects breast, two little lips all the
while holding on tight.
The greater part of the length of
the stiletto is then plunged into the
victims flesh and the blood is drawn
up the fine interstices of the composite
borer. The wound though six instru-
ments are concerned in making it, is
extremely minute. Our Household
Insects.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1894-11-21
PeCULidritieS of HUSferid.

Persons who are not troubled with
those exceedingly uncomfortable COM
panions called nerves have but faint
idea of the suffering of those whose
nervous systems are seriously y dis
ordered. They call such things fanci-
full and the extreme of Stiffness, and
often visit their severest displeasure
upon the victims of what they take to
be mere willful indulgence in vicious
and uncomfortable whims. But the
fact is that nervous illness is, of all
forms of suffering, the most distress
ing, and its victims are most deserv-
ing of consideration and sympathy.
Hysteria is n term having rather
broad meaning and covering consider
able ground. 1t is, perhaps the least
understood of any form of prevalent
disease. If this malady were proper
ly and promptly treated, large pro-
portion of cases of insanity might be
relieved in their earlier stages, and
many bright minds be saved from
sinking into the blackness of dark
ness. Hysteria is supposed to be
caused by lack of some substance re-
quired to keep the nerves and brain in
II normal condition. If instead of
harshness and ridicule extremely ner-
vous persons could be put under intel
ligent care and receive judicious treat
ment, great deal Of suffering might
be avoided. Just what this lack in
nerve and brain is that causes these
abnormal symptoms is question that
is absorbing some of the best minds
in the scientific world When their
researches meet with success, insanity
and softening of the brain will dis
appear from intelligent communities
New York Ledger.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1894-11-21
WastefuL Slaughter.

The improvidence of mankind is il
lustrated forcibly by the slaughter OF
profitable game that is going on in
Alaska and its waters. In that land
laws are weak, and men do about as
they please. For years the United
States has been trying to keep the
seals from being exterminated. Yet
few hundred men have been even
more busy in evading the laws and
have slaughtered the fur-bearers with
such relentless zeal that they will
soon have destroyed their own pres
ent means of livelihood. On the
breeding grounds, where formerly
100, 600 seals year could be taken
without decreasing the supply, only
16, 900 could be taken in the last sea-
son, and the end of the seal is in
sight. The latest reports from Alas
ka show that the silver foxes and other
valuable fur-bearing animals are being
slaughtered even more recklessly.
Strychnne is used and in one district
after another the fur bearing animals
are completely eXterminated. The
same reckless zeal for destruction is
seen in the case of the salmon indus
try. The streams are in many in
stances blockaded SO thoroughly that
no salmon can escape capture. There
is no provision for reproducing the
specie, and streams that were once
alive with the fish are now bare of
them. In every line men are reaping
the greatest possible profit from their
industry even at the cost of destroy
ing it. The Alaska experience gives
some food for thought to the philoso.
pliers who maintain that the posses
sion of all things by the public is all
that is needed to remedy the woes of
mankind If we may judge by Alas
ka's experience the benevolent self
interest of common ownership would
bring the race to the depths of desti-
titution in brief time unless it should
be restrained and directed by force
of despotic police. Francisco
Examiner.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1894-11-21
EDWARD G. DANA,
SCIENIIFIC SCRAPS.

Many popular perfumes are strong
antseptics.
Thyme destroys the bacilli of ty-
phoid fever
The engines of frst-class man-of-
war cost about 500, OOO
With the aid Of potassium, can
die san be lighted with an icicle.
The skin gives OFF, thlrtieth to
siXtieth part of the carbonic acid gas
given ont by the lungs.
Our sun, with his train of attendant
planets, is travelling through space at
the unthinkable speed of eighteen
miles per second.
A black down grows under the feath-
ers of many birds ut the approach OF
winter because down is the best non
conductor and black the warmest
color.
At the recent meeting of the Brit
lsh Association an instrument applica-
BILE to structures already in position
was described that can measure u lon
gitudinal strain as small as l-10O, OOOth
of an inch.
In South America among the noun
tains the evergreen oak begins to ap-
pear at about $500 feet, and is found
up to the limit of the continuous for
est, which is about ten thousand feet
The valuable cinchona tree from
which Peruvian bark is obtained, has
a range of elevation on the mountain
slopes running from 1900 to $500
feet.
The thermogen is an appliance for
keeping up the temperature of a pa
tient during the operation, doing
away with blankets and hot water bot.
ties. 1t is in the form of a quilted
cushion, with an arrangement of fine
wires inside, by which any desired
degree Of heat may be main.
tained by electricity. 1t was exhibit
ed at the last meeting of the Royal So
ciety,
There is general impression that
the humidity Of the air is greater in
the woods than in the open fields.
This is contradicted, however, by the
result Of observations recently made
i'll Germany. 1t was found there that
the humidity, both relative and abso-
lutte, was slightly greater in the open
than in the woods, and this was true
equally in the morning and in the al
ternoon. As to the temperature of
the air among the trees, it was tritie
higher than in the open in the morn
ing, and in more marked degree in
the afternoon.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1894-11-21
,SPItuDIe IiUhtuiun

An interesting photograph was ex-
hibited at recent sitting of the
French Academy. 1t shows six dis
tinct simultaneous flashes of lightning,
and was taken with detective camera
placed in II window during a terrific
thunder storm which broke over
Prague on May % last. The light
ming struck four houses at once, wreck
ing the roofs and doing considerable
damage. Two other flashes are dis
tlnctly shown in the photograph as
darting from the same cloud. One of
them struck the cupola of the acade.
my Of sciences without injuring it,
while the other was attracted to a
group of telephone wires, which il
fused. The melting of the wires and
the brilliant lighting up of the cloud
are well shown. Another most inter-
esting feature of the photograph is
that it shows the shadow of the cupola
sharply projecting against the dark
and cloudy sky. New Orleans Picay-
une.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1894-11-21

Mr.. Smalley, in the Fortnightly
Review, gives an interesting explana.
ton OF the expression on Bismarck s
face it the last portrait of him, paint
ed by Lenbach, the great artist. This
look is full of power and purpose,
ailame with anger and resolve, eight
ing in the eye and the mouth hard as
iron. ~
SO might he have looked thunder
ing at an obstinate majority in the
Reichstag, or trying to bend hostile
nation to his purpose.
But this is not the explanation of
his expression. Prince Bismarck loves
singing birds, and hates the crows,
their enemies. One day he was walk
ing with Herr Lenbach in the woods,
and caught sight of Il member of this
detested tribe.
His sudden glance of anger arrested
the attention of the artist, who, as
soon as he got home, transferred it to
canvas. Thus it was not the affairs
of nations which were responsible for
the look; not the obstinacy of his
countrymen nor the antagonism of the
French which will send the great
chancellor's features down to posterity
clothed in tragedy.
1t was simply the fact that he
caught sight of an insignificant bird
which has no reverence foy the sweet
singers of the feathered world. -
Youths Companion.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1894-11-21

shining; her hands are outstretched
in welcome. Are her perfect lips
raised in shy appeal as he dumbly
stares? Perish the thought; and yet
AS he sat in the quiet parlor on the
old haircloth sofa, he had the uncom-
Portable sensation of man who is
not doing all that is expected of him.
Through his brain flashed wild pro-
ject OF demonstrating with her about
the defects in her behavior, with an
eloquence far finer than that evoked
by the impassve faces of twelve gem
tlemen of the jury. "Six months ago
was in love with you," he fancied
himself saying by way of introduce
tion, when he was startled by the sud
den cessation of her voice in rising
infection.
"Would you like to look at our
hnrpsichord?" she was saying. sit is
back from the Fair, and you have not
seen it-not since-not since"
What was this glory of light that
shOne in her face as she hesitated over
the words "not since?" His craven
heart lcaped into sudden courage.
How could he ever have doubted that
he loved her
As he entered the library for the
second time, it had the strange famili-
arity of scene which moment of
strong excitement impresses uncon-
sciously, and yet indelibly, on the
memory. She seated herself at the
harpsichord; he stood leaning upon
it, while his eyes rested on an old
German Bible, open at ludicrous
woodcut of the flood. He had an in
tense consciousness of having stood
before in such an attitude, idly noting
the Mohammedan turban which adorn-
ed Noah's head.
Dreamily, as one repeating phrase,
which memory supplies word by word,
he said,
81 love you, I love you. Will you
give me something to hope for?"
As he looked into her eyes, his
treacherous memory, all too tardy,
flashed the truth into his brain. Six
months before, standing by the harp
sichord, he had spoken these same
words, which Kohn's telegram had in
terruptcd Had he valued Kohn's
paltry fee, or the cheap applause of
the 'mutable, rank scented many"
above her answer? What fool he
had bcen How Watson would laugh
and say,
"Proposed to girl and forgot it.
Goodbye, George"
And she? Did she understand? The
slight tremor of her breath which
prcsaged speech made him lift his
eyes Her own were downcast. "And
If ! say yes again." she murmured.
As he clasped her in his arms he
wondered if she would ever know that
he had forgotten. Even then, with
her cheek pressed against his own
such is the infrmity of the truly alb
sent-minded man-hc recalled Aris-
totles law of association, and wonder
ed if he would have remembered, if
he had never again stood by the harp
sichord.
"Perhaps," he thought as he strok-
ed her hair, sin the perfectly conf
dental relation of marriage such as
ours will be, shall some day tell her
all, and assure her that now, at last,
her love is the event, all else, the cpl
sodes of my life. The Pathfinder.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1894-11-21

The father of the late Charles Brand
ling, whose death took place recently,
and who was the step-father of the
Earl of Jersey, was, in the palmy days
OF the coal trade, member of an as
sociation known as the "Grand Allies. ;"
When coal was won in the Gosforth
colliery, in 1886, Mr.. Bradling and
his partners gave grand subtorranean
ball. The ball room was situated at n
depth of nearly |, 100 feet, and was in
the shape of the letter l., the width
being 10 feet, on the base - feet und
the perpendicular height As feet.
Seats were placed round the sides, the
floor was dried and tagged, and the
whole place illuminated.
The company began to descend in
appropriate dresses about $50 in the
morning, and continued to arrive till
one in the afternoon. The men en-,
gagged in the, work. their wives and
daughters and sweethearts, several
neighbors, the proprietors and agents,
and sundry friends of both sexes who
had courage to avail themselves of the
privilege, all found their way to the
bottom of the shaft. Immediately on
their arrival there they proceeded to
the extremity of the drift, to the face
of the coal, where each person hewed
a piece as memento of the visit and
then returned to the ball room. Dane
ing was continued till 3 o'clock in the
afternoon. No distinction was made,
and ladies joined in the general dance
with pitmen's daughters. All re-
turned in safety and in nice, clean and
we'll lined baskets. Between 200 and
800 persons we're present, nearly one
half of them being of the female sex.
Newcastle (England) Chronicle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1894-11-21
PEARLS or THOUGHI.

A real mind looks to permanent re-
suits.
Sensation lies at the root OF
thought.
Newspaper readers lose the power
to think and to remember.
We are strong when we follow our
own talent; weak when another leads
MS.
The best help is that which makes
us reyerent, self-active and independ-
ent
To lead q moral and intellectual life
is to make ones self, physically even,
attractive.
In each soul there is world in EN-
bryo, and the teachers business is to
help it to be born.
One illumined soul is of more worth
in the education of men than all the
money endowments.
We really know only what expert.
ence, suffering and labor have wrought
into our very being.
A cultivated mind entertains all
ideas and all facts which demand at
tention, just as polite and brave
man is gracious to all comers.
Whatever impels to high thinking
gives pleasure, and of nobler kind
than that which a fair scene or rich
wine or delightful company can give.
Whoever is made free frees him
self. This is the meaning of eye
shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free" This liberat-
ing truth each one must teach him
unlf
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1894-11-21

The greatest blow dealt the bison
herds of the Northwest. was the COM
pletion of the Northern Pacific track
west from Bismarck to the Rocky
Mountains. The road practically Y
divided the herds Cfor the bison will
never, unless forced, cross the iron of
railroad track and those to the
south were soon swallowed up in the
general slaughter waged by Indians,
pot, hide and tongue hunters, foreign
sportsmen and others who were out to
kill anything they saw on sight.
This was during the winter of 1882
S3. The buffaloes to the north were
in many scattered bands, but there
was one great herd of not less
than rs, 900 head, which had found a
temporary refuge in the triangle form
ed by the Musselshell, Missouri and
Yellowstone rivers in Montana, and as
yet they had not been "smelled out"
by either red or white hunters,
But they were as surely doomed as
though already killed. for the railroad