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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
Not Up to Date.

Truth.
Looking into the future, eh ?" said
Molly, the witch, to a sweet-faced girl
whom she found gazing pensively into
the Hackensack river.
",fhe water won't tell you much, but
| can tell you great deal if you let
me see your pretty hand"
The girl laughingly extended her
hand. Molly examined the lines of the
palm, chuckled gleefully and said:
Your future is as rosy as yon setting
sun. All, see the man who will be
your husband! lie is young, hand
some, wealthy, and he loves you more
than any man ever loved woman.
You want me to describe him? Well,
he is just six feet tall He has noble
head set on broad shoulders, curly black
hair and face that any woman would
rave about. Although he is not %
years old yet, he owns two railroads,
and is president of bank. He will fall
in love with you at first sight, and will
ask you to marry him within six weeks
after he meets you"
"lhat is all very delightful" said the
girl, land | have no doubt that you
have wonderful soothsaying powers.
You have given a lovely description of
my future husband. Now try to de-
scrsbe my present husband and the one
got divorce from last year And
While you are at it you might as well
tell me all about my first husband. Then
would be sure that you possess"
But Molly had fled into the woods,
wailing and crying out; "Alas! Alas! !
am not up to date in my busiuess!"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
THANKSGIVING OAR.
Proclamation by President Cievelan,
Thursday, November 20. tho Day.


Thursday, November 20. tho Day.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3o.-By the President
of the United States of America:
A PROCLAMATION.
The American people should gratefully
render thanksgiving and praise to the
Supreme Ruler of the Universe, who has
watched over them with kindness and
fostering care during the year that has
passed. They should also with humility
and faith supplicate the Father OF all
Mercies for continued blessings according
to their needs. and they should, by deeds
of charity, seek the favor OF the Giver of
every good and perfect gift.
Therefore L. Grover Cleveland, President
of the United States. do hereby appoint
and set apart Thursday, the twenty. ninth
day of November instant, as a day of
thanksgiving and prayer, to be kept and
observed by all the people of the land
On that day let our ordinary work and
business be suspended, and let lis meet in
our accustomed places of worship and give
thanks to Almighty God for our preserya-
ton as nation, for our immunity from
disease and pestilence, for the harvests
that have rewarded our husbandry, for a
renewal of national prosperity and for
every advance i'll virtue and intelligence
that has marked our growth as people
And with our thanksgiving let us pray
that these blessings may be multiplied
unto us, that our national conscience may
be quickened to better recognition of the
power and goodness of God, and that in
our national life we may clearer see and
closer follow the path of righteousness.
And in our places of worship and praise,
as well as in the happy reunions OF kin
bred and friends, on that day, let us invoke
Divine approval by generously remember.
ing the poor and needy. Surely He who
has given lis comfort and plenty will look
upon our relief of the destitute and OUT
mnistrations of charity as the work Of
hearts truly grateful and as proofs of the
sincerity of our thanksgiving.
Witness my hand and the seal Of the
Uuited States, which have caused to be
hereto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington on the
first day of November, in the year of our
Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
and of the independence of the United
States the 10th.
Seal GROVER CLEVELAND.
By the Presidents
w. q. GRESHAM, Secretary of State.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
THE MAIDEN AND THE DIR DINNER

They met upon the sounding shore,
Where reckless pillows with a roar
To ruin dash.
She was romantic, rich and fair,
With fluffy waves of golden hair,
He was pedantic, poor and proud,
With adamantine cheek endowed,
And each, to use slangy phrase,
Were versed in all the modern ways
To make NASH"
Acquaintance ripens fresh and free
Beside the great, unshackled sea.
That knows no care
And soon these modern "mashers' knew
That Cupid's aim is sometimes true.
lie pressed his suit with ardor bold,
But while her manner was not cold
She vowed the man she wed must be
A warrior on land or sea,
With courage rare.
"'Tis WELL" he cried with joyful air,
Though no vulgar musket bear
fill the bill.
| am drummer. AT the front
j march and bear the battles brunt.
Engagements by the scoro have
Passed through without scratch, and I
Full many fearful charge have made,
And fought the tiger in the shade
With right good will"
She clspped her little hands in glee,
And gazed on him in ecstasy,
For love is blind.
And were you wounded2' with start
She asked. With hand upon his heart
He answered her, Never before"
At which old Neptune had to roar, ...
But not till they were wed did she
Find her brave drummer one of the
Commercial kind.
-New Hdyen HCgtster.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08

Under the convoy of two powerful tugs
the big Allan Line steamship Siberian,
which dashed into the sunken wreck of
the steamship Allegheny late on Monday
night week, was taken to her pier yester-
day week, when careful examination was
made of her. This showed that the loss
on the vessel and cargo, may amount to as
much as 5000, 900, making the collision one
of the most serious that has ever happened
on the Delaware. The forward compart-
ments and hold OF the Siberian are so full
of water that she was down by
the head over seven feet, and her bow
marks indicated a draft over 80 feet for
ward and less than "a feet aft. There were
over seven feet of water in No. 2 hatch and
the same amount in No. hatch, the water
reaching as far as the between decks. The
cargo, which consists of flour, clover seed
and miscellaneous articles, is practically
ruined.
The stem is bent from the keel up. which
will necessitate the discharging of the
cargo and docking the vessel for repairs OF
q most expensive character. Eight hun
bred tons of the cargo, including the cattle,
have been landed, and the vessel is now
awaiting orders from her owners, who are
Canadians. A board of survey will be
called as soon as possible to determine
what shall be done,
The accident is believed to have been
caused by those on the vessel not accu'
rately determining the position of the tug
Churchman, which was placed near the
wreck of the Allegheny to warn mariners
5 of the danger. Buoys were also placed over
the wreck by the Lighthouse Department
as warning. but these were probably not
visible at night.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
MIR. Wilson'S speech in England.

Harpor's Weekly.
There is no one in this country who
has oftener described, more clearly and
with more virility than Mr.. Wilson, the
evils that have resulted from the foolish
effort to grow rich by self-taxation.
What he said to the English merchants
was repetition of what he has often
said in Congress and on the platform.
The 'infant industries" in the decrepi.
tude of aged pauperism; the wage-earnet
deceived by fair promises, but exposed
to competition in the unprotected labor
market of the world; the farmer selling
in the cheapest and buying in the
dearest market the abnormal profits
gained by legislation employed in po-
litical corruption and in the = rchase ON
further legislation; the building up of
trusts at the expense of the people
whom they Cypress; the subversion of
the fundamental principles of personal
liberty, and of the rights that are sup
posed to be the incidents of self-goVern-
mental these evil consequences of
the protective system have been de-
scribed again and again by tariff-reform
speakers, and by no one more frequently
than by MIR. Wilson himself. What he
said to his English auditors he has often
said to his ellow-countrymen. What
was accepted as truth in London is the
argument in West Virginia for Mr..
Wilson's return to the House of Repre-
sentatiyes.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
srAsIE1s ~ TINE snoorIse FIELD



The Professional Retriever Has Now
Taken His Place.
London Field.
The dictum of the Rev. w. B. Daniel,
that spaniels are indispensable" for
pheasant shooting in covert, will not
lind favor in modern times, and, in fact,
such an opinion may be said to date
practically from the last century.
Nevertheless, there are many of us who
can remember the era whom the bulk of
October shooting for outlying pheasants
was done to spaniels, and when no
country-house kennel, where there was
any game preservation on the estate,
was complete without such dogs. The
merits and beauty of old-fashioned
shooting to spaniels, when Indigenous
and outlying shaws and spinnies had TO
be beaten, have been so often described
by practical writer's that we need not
now recapitulate them in detail.
The charms of this variety of sport
lay, to great extent, in the action and
working of the team itself, when
spaniels were we'll broken. Such dogs
themselves are so hilarious over their
| duties, and seem so thoroughly to enjoy
the part allotted to them in the days
performances, that their merriment is of
itself contagious, and tends to raise the
spirits of the human section of their
audience. Their action varies accord
| ing to the nature of the game that is
afoot and ahead of them; they give
tongue noisily when pressing rabbit,
and rustic mutely when forcing run
ming pheasant down hedge bottom;
| SO that the character of the anticipated
shot may be generally surmised from
the manner and demeanor of the
dog that is starting or flushing it.
Year by year this class Of sport
becomes more and more obsolete,
and it would not be very wide of the
mark to say that of sportsmen on the
| sunny side of forty, but small fraction
have done real October days work be-
hind a leash of well-broken spaniels.
The causes of this disuse of this class
| of dogs are not far TO seek. One main
reason may be found in the existence
| of the modern retriever. The presence
of the latter in the field put an end to
one of the main uses for which the
| spaniel was broken and approved by our
forefathers. We can regret that the
| spaniel does not obtain more training and
employment during the current ueCude,
and that his role in the field seems to
become more circumscribed every
season. But from the hour the profess
sional retriever came on the scene, the
spaniel'ssun began to set, and his educa-
ton became more neglected in proper
ton as he became less and less "indis-
pensible"-as Daniel elects to put ito
misunderstanding. We still fully APP.
preciate him as luxury and ornament
to sport, but we are bound to admit that
the old Danielte definition of his utility
will no longer hold water.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
DEATH FROM KIDNEY TUoUBLE

Sad News of the Sudden Death OF Colonel
Milo W. Locke, Yesterday, at His Home
in Paiatxa, Fla.-One of wilmlngton's
Best known and Active Public Citizens.
The Funeral in Baltimore.
Colonel Milo w, Locke, formerly of this
city, died suddenly yesterday week,
at his present home, in Palatka, Fla.
Col. Locke was very well known here,
having been connected with the Brandy
wine Granite Co. for several years as its
manager, and being also the contractor for
several important works, including the
stone work of the B. & o. railroad bridge
over the Brandgwine, aud also the new
Walnut street bridge, in Philadelphia.
He was related by marriage 10 William M.
Kennard, Mrs. George 5. Grubb. Mrs. NJ.
NJ. Cleayer of this city and Mrs. j. B. Ca2er
of kirkwood. His age was about IS.
He was married to Miss Mary J.. Magens, a
daughter of William Magens, lat one time
prominet citizen here, and she and a
son and daughter now residing in Balti-
more, survive him.
The deceased was always public-heartcd
and highly respected citizen. He was one
of the Spartan few who regularly attended
and maintained the organization of the
| Wilmington Board Of Trade.
He was also an ardent Democrat and
was one of the organizers of the George
| Gray Club OF the Seventh ward.
The news of his decease will cause wide.
| spread regret and sympathy with the be.
reaved family.
At the time of his death Colonel Locke
was a member of the firm of Hathaway 4
Hathaway. extensive contractors of Phila.
delphia, and was looking after the firm:
interests at the jetties Mt Jacksonville
which is a large government contract
covering an expenditure of several thou
sand dollars, and which extends over foui
| years.
Colonel Locke was q prominent mem
Der of the Episcopal Church, He was
vestryman of Calvary Church this city.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet.
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health Of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable ana pleas.
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax.
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fever:
and permanently curing constipation,
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak,
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in Soc and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
| package, also the name, Syrup of Figs
ind being well informed, you will no,
accept any substitute it offered.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
PENINSULA VIEWS.

Fire in Saiisbury-oyster Dredgers in
Trouble From Kent County Dspreda-
tors.
SALISBURY. Mo-, Oct, 31.-The first fire
for long time happened here this morn
ing in section of Salisbury known as
Camden. The fire destroyed the store and
dwelling house of Mr.. JEFF. ID. Porter. The
origin of the fro was unknown. The first
intimation of it was the heavy explosion
OF can of powder, which blew ont the
front of the building The fire company
responded as quickly as possible, but
owing to the repairs going on at Camden
bridge the engines were compelled to take
a long route through the district known as
Frankfort The store and stock were in
sured in the agency of Rider & Gordy for
$3.50. The dwelling and furniture were in
sured with A. q. Toadvine d Son for 5000.
These amounts probably cover the loss.
No damage was done to adjoining build
ings.
An unoccupied two-story dwelling
house, belonging to j. w. Dashiell, on a
part of the Hezekiah Black farm, near
Fruitland, Wicomico county, was recently
destroyed by fire The building was com
paratiyely new and cost about $500 and
was insured. The house is supposed to
have been fired by tramps.
The report of the school board of Wi
cOmlcO SHOWS that the DOard expended
during the fiscal year ending July 81. 1884,
the sum of S34, l77.26 OF that amount
S2l p were paid 10 teachers, 3,4s2.9T
went towards building snd repairing
schoolhouses, and fuel cost 81 ,004.40. The
total received from all sources was $685.
722S6. This includes Sl,7l0 from liquor
licenses and 81, 49,. 10 from oyster licenses.
CHEsTEEroWN, MD., Oct, 3l.-A number
of oyster tongers have been sufferers lately
from oyster depredators in Kent county.
The tongers had worked hard for the oys-
tiers, and, finding the market dull, were
keeping them until prices got better The
oysters were allowed to remain in the
boats of the owners, and the thieves made
a raid on them all along the line. About
| 10 bushels were stolen from boats in Lark
| ford bay, about the same quantity in Cor.
sica creek, GO bushels from the Blight and
| 81 bushels from Quaker Neck wharf.
| The tongers are in an angry mood, ant
it would fare badly with any one under
taking the same game again. 1t is very
hard for these men to lose their earnings
in this way. One boat was taken from
| within 80 yards of police boat lying neal
the Cliff wharf but those on board hearC
nothing during the night.
i Albert Constable, counsel for Mrs
Canaan. in the Peacock Canaan S20,0U
damage suit, has docketed new suit
Court adjourned this afternoon.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
.ETENING ECHOES.

China has been getting badly cracked
so far in her war with Japan.
Experience is what you know after
making a fool of acknowledgement
Courier.
She--But all good looking girls are
not nice. He-Well, they have all good
features about them, nyway.--!S0nsgr-
gitke Journal.
After man has been sick a day he
begins to wonder that people don't re-
mark the look of patient suffering in his
cyes.--AtchisoR Gl0Jo.
Smokers cramp is reported to be the
disease of the moment in France and
Spain and is caused by necessarily roll.
ing cigarettes between the fingers.
The Jews were enjoined to "make
glad the waste places" In the parks Of
q pleasant evening the lover sits besides
his girl and makes glad the waist places
with the left arm.
Hartley-What would be an appro.
| pirate present for me to give nv stem
ographer? Sistare-Well, if she's any
thing like mine | should suggest a
spelling book.-Truth.
Cholly--Ethel Knox told me last
night that | wasn't over half witted.
Susie-I shouldn't feel badly about that;
she never did know anything about
fractlons.-Hate Fields Washington.
There is in Paris Russian horn
band, each horn being capable of pro.
ducing single note only. So perfect is
the training that the band produces the
effect Of one equipped with ordinary in
struments.
Sappho is the first Grecian maid OF
whom history records that she struck a
Tyre. Soon as the political "pot begins
to boil' they can be hit on every cor.
ner Of the street and in many news.
paper offices.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
SPORTING NOTES.

DR.. Brown of the Cleveland Bicycle
Team rode one.third of mile paced by
two tandems Wednesday, at Decatur, in
"a 20 seconds.
Ward of Princeton is not likely to be in
condition to play against Pennsylvania IN
November 10th, in which event Morse will
likely go back to half and Poe cover quar-.
ter.
Harrison, the young billiard expert of
Oregon, who has lately been giving exhi.
billions in Pittsburg and making runs Of
70 and 100 at the balk-line game, is talking
of challenging Edward Mclaughlin Of
Philadelphia, the champion Of Pennsyl.
vania. to match for that title II he does
his Pittsburg friends say they will back
HIM heavily to win.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
cHTN EsE pkoHERBs.
In Their Meanings They Closely Rcsemb
Old English SAWS.


The following proverbs are familiar
specimens of the Chinese coinage; the
English version IS given also;
"Virtue is The surest road to longevity;
but vice meets with an early doom"
Virtue is own reward.)
"rime flies like an arrow; days and
months like weaver's shuttle" thine
and tide wait for no man.)
"Let every man sweep the snow from
before his own doors, and not trouble
himself about the frost on his neighbours
titles" mind your own business.)
"Attend TO your farms and mulberry
trees, that you may have sufficient food
and clothing" (Take care of your
business and your business will take
care of you.)
$40 paint a snake and add leg"
drawing the long bow)
"Let us get drunk to-day while we
have wine, the sorrows of tomorrow
may be borne Tomorrow" Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereby
abstain from false accusing, that the
good and honest may be in safety"
(Bear not false witness against thy
neighbor.)
nc COurI Is ilke sup W Sea
everything depends on the wind" Put
not your trust in princes.)
"For him who does everything in Its
proper time one day is worth three" "a
stitch in time saves nine.)
"To cut off hens head with battle.
axe" Much ado about nothing.)
1.-THE truths which we least wish to
hear are those which it is most to our
advantage to know" (The truth is dis
agreeable.)
''If you don't enter the tigers den
you cannot obtain her young" Moth
ing venture, nothing VIM
"One strand of silk doesn't make a
thread" Zone swallow doesn't make a
summary
"Athousand chiefs, a thousand plans"
(Too many cooks will spoil the broth. J
There's time to fish and a time to
dry nets" (rhere's u time for all
things.)
1.-THE teacher should not leave his
books or the poor man his pigs" Let
the cobbler stick to his last.)
at thundors loudly, but little rain
falls" Much cry and little wool.)
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08


A French scientific journal gives
some statistics of the annual cost of
food per head in various European
nations. The English is at the head,
and the Russians at the bottom of the
list, and between them come, in the
following order, the French, the Ger.
mans, the Spaniards and the Italians.
In the consumption Of fresh food
the Englishman is at the top, and the
Italians come last. The Frenchman is
second, and after him is the German,
then the Russian, then the Spaniard.
In the matter of bread the order
is remarkably changed. 1t runs
as follows Russian, German,
Frenchman, Spaniard, Italian, English
man. To the Englishman, apparently,
the term "statf Of life," as applied to
bread, Is a mere pleasantly. He
replaces it largely by potatoes. The
small consumption of bread by the
Italian is accounted for his partiality
for other forms of cereal food, such as
| polenta from maize and the divers pre-
partitions of wheaton flour paste, spag-
netti, macaroni, &c. On the whole the
Englishman pays the most and gets the
least.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
Railway Travel in India.


The railway handbooks abound with
curious information and rules interesting
to the naturalist. "Sheep, pigs, goats,
calves, if sent singly, small tame deer,
&c., and tiger, panther, and cheetah
cubs in cages, and which are so young
as to be harmless, if carried by passenger
trains, are charged at double the dog
rates for each animal" "Cats, ferrets,
mongooses, monkeys and rabbits, Sc
cured with a collar and chain, are
chargeable as dogs"
Prudent natives, when shifting their
quarters during the snake season, fire.
quently take along the family mon
goose as precautionary measure. FOR
those unfamiliar with this unprepossess-
ing but harmless little beast it may be
here remarked that he belongs to the
ichneumon caste, and as his vocation is
the killing of snakes, he is everywhere a
welcome visitor. He looks something
like an understood otter. is quick and
spasmodic in his movements, and is
aften found under the bed in long.
vacant Oak bungalow, whence he sud-
denly scuttles away as the door is
| opened, and disappears with whlsk of
his tail in the chimney place or down
the nearest hole.
At one station four coolies passed
along the platform carrying aloft a
'charpie," on which reposed cheetah,
chained and blindfolded. When we
first caught sight of him he was sitting
up like u cat, with his ears lying flat
against his head, wearing the sulky and
injured look which all felines have
under adverse circumstances. A few
passengers got off before we reached
Jodhpore were provided with falcons
and hawks, some of them 50 large and
bulky as to he rather unwieldly; and
while these passengers fumbled fol
their tickets, the birds sat on theil
shoulders, or balanced themselves on
their voluminous turbans.