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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-21
Gravel Cured
An Operation Avoided.
lPhiladelpllia, Penn. ltcm.l

A healthier, beartier, happier man than
John j. Neill of 3437 North Eighth street,
Philadelphia, could not be found in a days
search. The fact that he is still alive is Il
constant wonder to his friends.
In the fall of 1889 he began to suffer
from stone in the bladder,and his miseries
were indescribable.C Consulting an eminent
physician in Philadelphia, he was told
that a surgical operation was necessary.
So much did he dread the result, for if
unsuccessful it meant death, that he put
off the evil day as long as possible. While
in this frame of mind, he CHANGED to
see notice of DIR. David Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy. Although disheart-
ened with his many futile attempts with
medicine, he was induced to make one
more trial. On July l., 1893, he bought a
bottle of
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-21

The Rev: S. NJ. Keen, D. D., who
conducted pentecostal services at the
last session of the Wilmington NJ T..
Conference, died at Delaware, o.,
Tuesday.
ERegister Cooch. on Saturday, grant
ed letters of administration on the
estate of Emma S. Porter, late of
Christiana hundred, to James F. Por-
tor,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-21
Lnlte oIt,es want 20 puila warship,.

Duluth, Mimi, Nov. b. Mayor
Lewis, Congressman Towne and many
other prominent citizens held a meet
ing last evening, at which it was de-
cided to ask the Minnesota delegation
in Congress TO work for the abrogation
of the great Lake treaty of 1917, in
order that the lake cities may compete
for the government shipbuilding work.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-21
neInwnra I,ynla club.

The Delaware Cycle Club has elected
the following officers for the ensuing
quarter. President, Joseph II. War
field; Vice President, Leon Arts; Re-
cording Secretary, George Lockwood +;
Financial Secretary, Harry Hobbs
Treasurer, Charles Hahn; Trustees,
Chandler Walker, Rayomnd Davis and
Alfred Cole.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-21

by buzzng or roaring sound In your head ?
Have you difficulty in hearing distinctly? Are you
troubled with a continual dropping of mucous,
Is your breath unpleasantly Affected and ACCOM-
panied with bad tasto3 Is your hearing less
acuteg II so, you have catnrrh. and should at
once procure u hottie Of Ely's Cream Balm, the
best known remedy. The Balm Will give instant
relief.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-21

Burglars entered the store Of Wright
& Galloway, at Harrington, on Friday
evening, and stole about $50 worth Of
knives, razors and revolvers They
also entered the drug store of E. M.
jefferson, but did not secure anything
of value.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-21

Detectives McVey and Witsil Thurs
day arrested "Signal" Thompson, and
locked him up on the charge of steal
ing coat from Patrick Dillon.
Thompson proved his innocence and
was released.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-21

wtIMIYGroS, DEL, oct 80. 1851 was trou-
bied with dyspepsia aud was In such a condition
that could not WALK I began taking Hoods
sarsaparilu sud ia short time | was feeling
better have now used four bottles Of Hoods
hard, eat heartily and sleep well."-P. T. Gaulin,
llag kGilroad eyenue.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-21

woman's Christian Temperance Union.
The Womans Christian Temperance
Union, ON Friday afternoon, decided to
celebrate Temperance day on NCvem-
Der 2ith and also decided to have a
children's jubilee at an early date.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-21

The Equitable Guarantee and Trust
Co. has declared a semi-annual divi-
dend of 21a per cent and placed 81, 600
to the credit OF the undivided profit
account.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-21

Robert NJ. Starr, fish dealer at No
305' Madison street. slipped and fell on
the sidewalk at Fifth and King streets
Thursday afternoon and broke his leg.
He was removed to his home, No. oil
Jefferson street.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-21

Register CoocIe ehas granted letters of
administration thAe estate of William
Little, late Gate Of Creek hundred, to
William H.W. Bowl
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-21

The commission appointed to lay out
road in Pencader hundred has
awarded James p. Ratledge 1920 and
James Morrow S1S5.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-10-12

treasured imagery Of fancy. from the
huge carvings of untu,ored Egypt" to
mingled aud conflicting perfumes, reek-
ing up from strange convolute censers,
together with multitudious. fiaring and
Pickering tongues of purple and violet
fire." Hungry and ragged he wrote Of
Epicurean feasts and luxury that would
have beggared the purpled pomp Of
pagan Rome and put Nero and his Col
den House to shame.
And this mighty master of the organ
of language, who knew it's every stop
and pipe. who could awaken at will the
thin silver toues OF its slenderest reeds
or the solemn cadence OF its deepest
thunder. who could make it sing like
flute or roar like cataract, he was
born into country ~ithout literature.
He was OF that ornate s-hool which usu
ally comes last in national literature.
and he came first. American taste had
been vitiated by men like Griswold and
n. p. Willis until it was at the lowest
possible ebb. Willis was considered a
genius. that is the worst that could pos
sibly be said. In the North new race
Of great philosophers was growing up,
but Poe had neither their Friendship
nor encouragement. He went indeed,
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-10-12
THE PASSING SHOW
Ny tantalized spirit

Ny tantalized spirit
Here blandly reposes,
Forgetting, or never
Regrcttine its roses.
Its old agitatioBs
OF myrtles and roses.
For now, while so quietly
Lying, il fancies
A holier odor
About il. of pansies-
A rosemary odor
Commingled with psnsies.-
With rue and the beautiful
Puritan pansies.
Edgar Allan Poe,
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-10-12

sometimes, to the chilly salon OF Mar.
garet Fuller. but he was always g dis
cord there. He was a mere artist and
he had no business with philosophy, he
had no theories as to the 'higher life
and the "true happiness. He had only
his unshapen dreams that battIed with
him in dark places. the unborn that
struggled IN his brain for birth. What
time has an artist to learn the multipli-
cation table or to talk philosophy? He
was not afraid Of them. He laughed at
Willis, and flung LongfelIow's lie in his
teeth, the lac the rest OF the world was
twenty years in finding. He scorned
the obtrusive learning Of the transcend
entalists ana he disliked their hard
talkative women. He left them and
went back to his dream women. his Bere.
nice, his Ligeia, his Marchesa Aphro-
dite, pale and cold as the mist maidens
of the North, sad as the Norns who weep
for human woe.
The tragedy OF Poe's life was not alco-
Eol. but hunger. He died when he was
forty, when his work was just begin
ming. Thackeray had not touched his
great novels at forty. George Eliot
was almost unknown at that age. Hugo,
Goethe, Hawthorne, Lowell and Dumas
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-10-12

ing as a1amant, by which, from the be-
ginning OF the world, art has shielded
anG guarded and protected her own,
that God -coucealing mist in which the
heroes OF old were hidden, immersed in
that gloom and solitude which, il we
could but know il here, is but the
shadow Of Gods hand as il falls upon
his elect.
We lament our dearth of great prose.
With the exception of Henry James and
Hawthorne, Poe is our only master of
pure prose. We lament our dearth OF
poets. With the exception OF Lowell,
Poe is our only great poet. Poe found
short story writing a bungling make
shift. He left it perfect art. He
wrote the first perfect short stories in
the English language. Hefirs' gave the
short story purpose, method, and artistic
form. In a careless reading one can not
realize the wonderful literary art. the
cunning devices, the mastery effects
that those enhancing tales conceal.
They are simple and direct enough to
delight us when We are children, subtle
aud artistic enough to be our marvel
when we are old To this day they are
the wonder and admiration of the
French, who are the acknowledged
masters OF craft and form. How in his
wandering, laborious life, bound to the
hack work OF the press and crushed by
an ever-growing burden OF want and
debt. did he ever come upon all this
deep and mystical lore, this knowledge
OF all history, Of all languages, OF al. art,
this penetration into the hidden things
OF the East? As Steadman says, The
self training OF genius is always mar
vel" The past is spread before Us all
and most of us spend our lives in learn
ing those things which we do not need
to know, but genius reaches out in
stinctively and takes only the vital de-
tail. by some sort of spiritual grayita-
ton goes directly to the right thing.
Poe belonged to the modern French
school OF decorative and discriminating
prose before it ever existed in France.
He rivallcd Gautier, tlaubert and
de Maupassant before they were born
He clothed his tales in barbaric splen-
dor and persuasive urreality never be-
fore heard of in English. No such pro-
fusion OF co'or, oriental splendor of de-
tail, grotesque combinations ana mysti-
cal effects had ever before been wrought
into language. There are tales as gro
tesque, as monstrous, unearthly as the
stone griffens and gargoyles that are
cut up among the unvisited inches and
towers of Notre Dame, stories as poetic
and delicately beautiful as the golden
lace work chased upon an Etruscan ring.
He fitted his words together AS the Baz
antine jewellers fitted priceless stones.
He found the inner harmony and kin
ship OF worts. Where lived another
man who could blend the beautiful and
the horrible, the gorgeous and the gro
tesque in such intricate and inexplica-
BILE fashion? Who could delight you
with his noun and disgust you with his
verb, thrill you with his adjective and
chill you with his adverb, make you run
the whole gamut OF human emotions in
a single sentence? Sitting in that mis-
cradle cottage at Fordham he wrote OF
the splendor OF dream palaces beyond
the dreams of art. He hung those
grimy walls with dream tapestries, paved
those narrow halls with black marbled
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-10-12

The Shakespeare society OF New York,
which is really about the only useful
literary organization in this country. is
making vigorous efforts to redress an
old wrong and atone for long neglect.
Sunday. Sept. %. it held meeting at
the Poe cottage on Kingsbridge road
near Fordham, for the purpose OF start
ing an organized movement to buy back
the cottage, restore it to its original
condition and preserve il as a memorial
OF Poe. So it has come at last. After
helping build monuments to Shelley,
Keats and Carlyle we have at last re.
membered this man. the greatest OF our
poets and the mot unhappy. l am
glad that this movement is in the hands
OF American actors, for it was among
them that Poe found his best friends
and warmest admirers. Some way he
always seemed to belong to the sirolling
Thespians who were his mothers peo-
pie.
kmong all the thousands OF life's lit
tie ironies that make history so divert
ing. there is none more paradoxical than
that Edgar Poe should have been an
ever another like it! He must have
been a strange figure in his youth.
among those genial, courtly Virginians,
this handsome, pale fellow, violent IN
his enthusiasm, ardent in his worship,
but spiritually cold in his affections.
Now playing heavily for the mere ex-
element Of play. now worshipping at
the shrine OF woman old enough to be
his mother. merely because her voice
was beautiful; now swimming six miles
up the James river against a heavy cur
rent in the glaring sun Of June mid
day. He must have seemed to them an
unreal figure, sort OF stage man who
was wandering about the streets with
his mask and buskins on, theatrical
figure who had scaped by some strange
mischance into the prosaic daylight
His speech and actions were uncon-
sciously and sincerely dramatic, always
as though done for effect. He had that
nervous. egotistic, self-centered nature
common to stage children who seem to
have been dazzled by the footlights and
msddened by the applause before they
are born. 1t was in his blood. With
the exception OF two women who loved
him. lived for him. died for him, he
went through life friendless. misunder-
stood, with that dense, complete. hope
less misunderstanding which. as Amiel
said, is the secret OF that sad smile upon
the lips OF the great. Men tried to be-
friend him. but in some way or other he
hurt and disappoint, them. He tried
to mingle and share With other men, but
he was always shut from them by that
shadow, light rs goessmer but unyield-
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-07-05
PUCKHANN0N.

Miss Bessie Mcwhorter left
Thursday for Clerksburg to
visit her cousin E. B. Morris.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. D. Foreman
and DR.. and Mrs. l.. H. Foreman
drove through to Davis City
Tuesday.
Misses Minnie and Ivy Morgan
returned Saturday from Fair.
mont and Morgantown. where
they had been visiting.
Mr.. Q. NJ. Bennett, a promin
ent attorney OF Glenville, was in
town Thursday and delivered an
address to the Odd Fellows.
There is talk of a new school
building; If the school board does
not erect one, they should at least
arrange to have the old one heat.
ed by a different system than has
been in use, the stoves are not
what is needed. Let the board
look into this matter Delta.
John Stuart of Clarksburg,
passed through here Monday on
his way to French Creek.
Mrs. DRIP. Miller and daugh.
ter Lillian are spending some
time with Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Gore
near Clarksburg.
The Presbyterians of this place
have commenced some extensive
improvements on their church.
T. r. Cherry is giving attention
to the work in behalf of the
Board of Trustees of which he is
a member.
Floyd Terrell, of this city, was
married on Thursday to Miss
BERTHE Duncan, of Lewis county.
The newly welded pair arrived
Iherei in the evening and are the
guests al n. N. Ferrell's on the
Island, -lloanef
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-07-05
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GRAFTON.

Lewis w, Walters and dapgh
ter, of West Philippi were ia
Grafton Wednesday.
The family of Hon. Thos. n.
Davis left the first Of the week
for Mountain Lake TO remain
during The summer months.
Prof. A. j. Wilkinson return
ed home Sunday from Mississip
pt, where he had been travelling
ing in the interest of the Ameri
can Book Company. He win Ire.
turn in about two weeks.
The B. * o. are to abandontlie
hotel at this place aud build i
larger and better one in West
Grafton, 1t is rumored.
Bishop Donohue, Of Wheeling,
confirmed class Of fifty at the
Catholic church Sunday, preach
ing two able and eloquent SER
mons.
Robert Alexander was ia
Clarksburg on business the frst
of the week.
Judge NJ. H. Dent returned
from Wheeling where he had
been attending Supreme Court
Editor Jas. Litzinger. OF ;he
Oakland Democrat, was the guest
of friends in town over Sunday,
remaining until Monday night to
witness the distribution Of prerni
ums Of the st. Augustine school.
Mr.. Geo. Martin was driving
into town Wednesday morning
with load OF eggs and butter
aud his team became frightened
at the east end and ran awayup
Main street, striking the porch
to Col. McGraw's house, upset
ting the wagon and realSfng the
wagon all 10 pieces was desire
ing the produce. Did not hurt
The owner or horse seriously
Leadtf.
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CoIored circles.

e
Mr.. Lee Green, of Parkersburg,
was here Saturday.
Mrs. Manerva Ashby and grand
daughter, Grace ID. Grayson, are
visiting friends in Weston.
Rev. J. A. Reid was at Buck
harmon aud Weston last week.
Mrs. Alice Napier, of Miclli-
gan, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
William Lewis.
Rev. Jackson, Of Huntington,
is the guest of Rev. Steele this
week.
Miss Kato Chapman is visiting
friends in Parkersburg.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-07-05

Wade and Boyd Hoff.of Clarks,
burg, were the guests of w. X.
Smith last week.
Frank Dennison and John
DAVIDSON, OF Clarksburg, were
here over Sunday.
j. e. Galford, having produc.
ed the necessary order of the
county court and his diploma
from the law department of the
State University, was admitted
10 practice law IN the circuit
court of Lewis county mdepend,
ent.
The railroad boys of Weston
have effected an organization for
the purpose of more thoroughly
familiarizing themselves with
railroad information. The TEN.
porary officers are Fl. A. Rebrook
President, and Frank G. Fisher,
Secretary.
Prof. D. NJ. Willis returned on
Wednesday from a trip to Nor
gantown, where he attended a
meeting of the Faculty of the
State University. Prof. Willis
is a man of superior business
qualifications and an expert in
the art of pennmanship.
Mrs. Ella Edmiston and little
son. Andrew, after an extended
visit in Washington City, and
other points, returned to Weston
last week.-Democrat.
A small boy by the name OF
McEwen received a painful cut
below the knee, on last Saturday,
by being struck with a piece Of
glass dish thrown by another
boy. Both boys were playing in
the water near the suspension
bridge when the accident occur
red.
A railroad employee was sever
ly hurt at the machine shops
Tuesday by a piece of iron weigh
ing several hundred pounds fall
ing on him. Times.
Marriage licenses have been
issued to Floyd Terrell and Der.
tie L. Duncan; John Carpenter
and Doretta Spruce.
G. w. Davis. of Freemansburg
was one of the jurors here last
week, thai made this Office a
social visit while in town.
j. W. yandervort. appointment
member of the Wood county bar,
attended court here last week,
bnt returned home Monday
Weston World.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-07-05
NEIGH B0RS.
What Our Near Cities And
Counties Are Doing.
M EST UNION.

Hon. Samuel Mcmillan received
2 sight paralytic stroke on Mon
day DR.. Clelland was called
and he is now doing very we'll.
Dr.L. A. Davidson, of West
Milford, proprietorof Susanna,
the great medicine for children,
has been in town part of the
week.
Ex-Governor A. b Fleming
was here Monday looking after
the interests of the South Penn
9ilCo.. of which company he is
leading counsel in the state.
Dr. A L. Hupp, Of Cherry
Camp, who recently formed a
Partnership with DR.. G. M. Clel-
land, removed to this place Tues.
day and now occupies the resi-
dence owned by the late DR..
Bland near the Grant House.
We welcome him into our midst
and hope that his stay among us
will be both pleasant and remun-
.erative. He has a splendid repu.
tation as physician and will be
"a valuable addition to our medi.
cal force.
Many farmers are already har
vesting their hay and a very light
crop is reported. The droutt
has literally dried up the grass
10 many places, and hay promises
10 be hay next winter
+ is whispered that salem
you'd like to be annexed Il
Doddridge: She gets her trade
mainly from this county and d
course she ought to belong to us
We'd love to have her, too.
Record.
Mrs. G. w. Farr and Mrs. NJ.
#, Snider will go TO Webster
Springs the last of next week.
Attorney j. w. Stuck was al
Parkersburg attending Fedora
Court the latter partoflast week
West Uuion has ten lawyers,
six doctors, one preacher and SIN
or seven hundred splendid citi.
zens.
Mr.. Lee Roberts died at his
home on Nutters Fork Wednes'
day morning of consumption,
aged about 30 years. The de.
ceased was an honest and indus,
trious young man and his be.
reaved wife has the sympathy Of
all in her bereavement. The re-
mrins were inferred in the Shir.
ley cemetery Thursday. Herald
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-07-05
Mdltdm III ParYO.

Faith is not reasons labor but
repose. = Young
Education is the apprentice
ship Of life. IFi1imott.
Nothing is so atrocious us fancy
withouttaste. : Goethe.
Public instruction should be
the first object OF government.
Napoleon.
True wisdom. in general, con-
sists in energetic determination.
Napoleon.
We reform others unconscious
ly when we walk uprlghtly
Jfme. Swetchine
Every production Of genius
must be the production Of enthu-
siasm. -D,sraeH.
He has oratory, who ravishes
his hearers while he forgets kim
self. LaUater.
Falsehood always endeavored
to copy the mien and attitude Of
truth. -Johnson.
Truth is hid in great depths
the way to seek it does not ap
pear to all the world Goethe.
The pyramids themselves, dot.
ing with age, have forgotten the
names of their founders. Fulisg.
The truest mark of being born
with great qualities is beng born
without envy. Rochcty'tcoulti.
Precept is instruction written
in the sand, the tide flows over il
and the record is gone Exam
pie is engraven on the rock.
Claiming.
To succeed in the world, IL Is
much more necessary 10 possess
the penetration to discover who
is fool than to discover who is
a clever man. Cato.
There are many troubles which
you can not cure by the Bible
and the hymn book .bpt which
you can cure by a good perspira
ton and breath of fresh air
Beecder.
There is sort of natural in-
stinct of human dignity ia the
heart of man which steels his
very nerves not TO bend beneath
the heavy blows of a great ad
versity. The palm tree grows
best beneath a ponderous weight.
even so the character Of man
Rossstla.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-07-05

A contempary puts it thusly:
How dear to my heart is the face
of the dollar, when some kind
subscriber presents it to view! 1t
may come to day, it may come
tomorrow; it may come from
others it may come from you.
The big silver dollar, the round
silver dollar; delinquent sub
scribers present it TO view Big
silver dollars / hail as a treasure,
for often expenses o'erwhelm me
with woe, / count them the
source of an exquisite pleasure
and yearn for them strongly
wherever l go. How ardent I'd
seize it-that lovely round dollar,
the root of all evil" tits com
monty named; loving money is
Sinful, some good people tell us,
but the penniless printer, the
Woodworking printer keeps send.
ing ont papers that interest you;
so hand in the dollars. the big
dandy dollars. dear reader, now
will you present them to view?
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-07-05

Lord Salisbury has accepted
the call to the English premier
ship and organized a new cabi-
net, Salisbury is the man, Il
will be remembered, who was so
badly worsted by Secretary
Blaine in the discussion OF the
Behring Sea case.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-07-05

Jimmy Burns is one of the
boys about town whose pathway
often takes him among thorns.
Jimmy is frequently before the
mayor charged with being dis.
orderly, but not having the root
of all evil he usually is dis:
charged. On Tuesday morning
Jimmy was arraigned and it was
decided that he must go to work
for the city. A heavy ball with
a chain was fastened to his leg
and Judge Gordon ordered him
to the cruel stone pile where q
sledge hammer awaited him. But
Jimmy said mike" marry a
time would he work. After a
lot of coaxing our reporter says
he noticed Sergeant Pew walk
ing in front. carrying the big
iron ball while Jimmy walked
sleisurely behind. Probably BE
wentto work