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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-01-31

Ex-Assistant Postmaster EDGAR A.
Finley returned from Altoona, Pa, We'd
nesday, where he has been attending the
wedding of his son, DR.. d. Il. Finley 10
Mrs Mary w. Dern of that city. DIR.
Finley will permanently resided in Altoona
where he has the position of physician to
the railroad hospital there
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-01-31

A dispatch from Cincinnati, 0. last Thurs.
day night, said : At the annual meeting Of
the Chautauqua General Assembly yester.
day 1t was announced that United States
Senator Higgins of Delaware, and his Sis
ing memorial hall in memory of their
father. 1t will cost Sl0,O 900 and be devoted
to girls clubs. .-.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-01-31

H. Heineman, Milwaukee. writes: Zone
box of japanese Pile Cure has cured me IF
case of ~ years standing, after being
treated by New Works best physicians y
n. u. Danforth, Second and Market streets,
and the Miller Drug Ca, 402 Market street,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-01-31

Marshall Winchester of Baltimore, a
brother of President ]. P. Winchester of
the First National Bank of this city, has
been appointed bank examiner for the
district of Maryland. The salary is about
| 5000 per annum.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-01-31

The petition ofthe receivers Of the Walton
y Whann Co. was filed in the U. s, court
Thursday. The receivers were authorized
to sell the tools and other property at pub
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-01-31
ON THE WHEEL in WINTER
Cyclists Who Like a Spin In
the Crisp Air.
VIEWS OF A CHESTER WHEELMAN
Wilmington Bicycle Club to
Give a Reception.

Outside Guests Win he Invited and the
Affair viii be Very Pleasant Once
How Many Cyclists Enjoy Their Spins
During Winter weather--A Chester
Wheeiman's Interesting, Chat.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-01-31
OPPOSED 70 LOCAL OPTION
vehemently Antagonized by
Observation-Disclosures
PERSONAL RIGHTS lNFRINGED
Wont Submit Tamely to Any
Such Dictatum.

Resolutions to be Submitted to the Leg
Islature by Ihe Uerman-Americans
stoutiy Protesting Against tho Local
Option Movement of "so-called Fanati-
cal Temperance People" - Personal
Liberty Invaded-A Loss OF 100000
to the state and Burthen to the Tax
payers.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-01-31

A Chicago bicycle firm has put upon the
market All attachment for wheels when
renders the latter useful on ice and com
pact snow. The rear wheel, which acts
as driver. is fitted with spurs, which hold
the ice, while the front wheel is detached
and is replaced by a runner The device
is found to be practicable and is likely to
come into common use in locations where
there is a great deal of snow and ice.
A meeting of the race committee of the
Wilmington Bicycle Club will be held
soon to make arrangements for a big
spring tournament.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10
SENSITIVE MODELS.
Publication of "Trilby'' Causes Some to
Resign From the Profession.

Publication of 'Truby'' Causes Some to
Resign From the Profession.
Women models have always been a
little sensitive about their profession,
says a writer in the Boston Herald, and
since ''Trilby" has been the favorite
topic of studio gossip some of the best
of them have felt that sensitivenesS in
crease and have declined to pose for the
nude. Child models who have been in
the profession since before they could
walk have been forbidden to enter stu
dios, while women who have supported
their families by posing have refused to
mount the model stand.
Miss Arabella Gold, who is known as
famous figure model to the best New
York artists, has recently sent in pub
lie resignation from the profession.
She wrote to one of the leading New
York papers requesting that it publish
the fact that she would never again
pose for the figure. Miss Gold s resig-
nation is decided loss to the artists.
She is said to have one of the most ex-
quisitely formed figures in the world.
Of late she has been posing for a num-
Der of Sarony's living pictures. In one of
the most celebrated of these she repre-
sents an almost perfect facsimile Of the
famous painting, Psyche"
Many models whose forms have here
tofore been prominent features in the
portrait exhibitions declare that they,
too, will renounce the business entirely.
1t is not that they object to posing nude,
they claim, but the notoriety which en-
harnesses their profession has become
intolerable since the publication.
The majority of models interviewed
have not read the book, but claim that
Trilby, whoever she was, has seriously
degraded the profession. Some spoke of
her as New York model guilty Of
some despicable crime. Others believed
her to be reformer
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10
ABRUPT CONAN DOYLE.
The English Novelist's Queer Antics In
Massachusetts Town.


Massachusetts Town.
DR.. DOYLE, the story runs was engag-
ed to lecture in MOrristOwn under the
auspices of st. Bartholomew school,
and the % boys of the school were IN
culver Of excitement at the prospect OF
seeing and meeting the creator OF Sher-
lock Holmes The head master, the
Rev. F. Z. Edwards, with the most
hospitable intentions, invited DR.. Doyle
TO dinner before the lecture, inviting
also at the same time Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Stockton, great friends of the
clergyman. DR.. Doyle declined the in
vitation, to the great regret indeed OF
the host, the two guests and four or five
boys that had been specially favored by
being asked to meet the big author. At
the dinner hour, however, to the sur
prise of Mr. Edwards, he received a
telephone message from DR.. Doyle at
the station, announcing: I'm here.
What shall | dO?''
why, we didn't expect you, but do
come right over. We just sat down to
dinner.
Swinging along, the Englishman soon
appeared but despite diplomatic coax
ing could not be prevailed upon to enter
the dining room. He wouldn't, he said,
meet any one. No!
Although assured that only Mr.. and
Mrs Stockton and four boys were pres
ent, that the dinner was very informal,
he still remained obdurate.
Cant | eat my dinner alone?'' he
asked bluntly.
So he ate his dinner alone, devOuring
several plates of roast beef and frequent
relays of vegetables with lightning ra-
pidity Unknown to any one in the
house, the brawny Englishman soon fled
and was next seen in the lecture hall Of
the school, A large audience was pres
ent, and every courtesy was extended to
him.
After the lecture, with insulting
haste, Dr.. Doyle pocketed the $500 fee
and FASTENED to the train. The only
person, in fact, that met the distinguish
ed British author was Mr.. Stockton,
and as the author of "Rudder Grange
introduced the lecturer the latter
couldn't very we'll avoid meeting him.
But the 20 boys were sadly disappointed
at not shaking hands with the hero of
their imaginings. The whole proceed
ing of the talented author was, in fact,
so foreign to what has been reported of
him by men and papers that Morris
towns Four Hundred are wondering
whether Dr. Doyle could possibly have
thought the town a jay place. and that
he therefore dreaded meeting bucolio
enthusiasts boston Beacon.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10
Two Boys.

"There is a science in doing little
things just right" said down town bust
ness man few days ago. land notice
it in my Office. | had two Office boys
there whose main duty it was to bring
me notes or cards that were sent in to
me or to fetch things that wanted to
use. One of those boys, whenever sent
him for book or anything heavy, would
walk rapidly by my desk and toss it in
definitely toward me. If it happened to
miss me and land on the desk, it was all
right If it fell on the floor. the boy al
ways managed to fall over it in his eager
ness to pick it up. Then if he had
letter or card to deliver he would come
close up to the desk and stand there scan
ming it over with minute care. tbs
being concluded, he would faunt it airlly
in my direction and depart.
1.-THE other boy always came and went
so that could hardly hear him. If it
was book, inkstand or box of letters,
he would set it quietly down at one side
of the desk. Letters and cards were al
ways laid-not tossed-right where my
eye would fall on them directly. If
there was any doubt in his mind about
whether he ought to lay letter ON my
desk or deliver it to some other person
in the Office, he always did his thinking
before he came near me and did not
stand annoyingly at my elbow studying
the letter. That boy understood the sci
ence of little things. When New Years
came, he got $40. The other boy got
fred."-New York Sun.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10
OVERRUN WITH MICE.
A Most Remarkable State of Affairs In t. e
Province of Kharkoff, Russia.

Province of Kharkoff. Russia.
One Of the most unpleasant places in
this world to live in just at present, &C
cording to Russian papers, is the prov
ince of Kharkov, in the land Of the
car. The country is now overrun with
mice-millions Of mice. The cats have
become SO accustomed to the sight Of
the little animals that they no longer
catch them or even play with them.
They are said to be a greater pest than
the rabbits were in Australia a few
years ago. Provisions for the table, can
dies, soap, books, shoes-everything
in fact, is eaten up by the animal in
the nighttime The furniture even is
not spared. Sleep for many of the poor
inhabitants has become almost impossi-
BILE. All of them virtually have been
obliged to place their beds in the mid
die of the rooms. Some of them even
have been forced to sleep with their feet
in basins of water, the Russians of that
district believing that mice will not
touch person SO sleeping. If these
precautions are not followed, the mice
dance genuine 'saraband'' on the re-
cumbent figures and on the bed and
even bite the sleepers
Almost all the wheat has beer. de-
stroyed A number of wealthy women
LANDED proprietors-have been obliged
to abandon their homes and have gone
to st. Petersburg to get away from the
scourge, for such it has become.
In the fields the mice are so numer-
GUS that men kill 200 or 800 in five tc
ten minutes
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10
PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE.
The Surprising Dilemma of an Illinois
Congressman's Constituent.

The Surprising Dilemma of an Illinois
Congressman's Constituent.
An Illinois congressman is now 60
ing about the corridors of the capitol
wondering what is going to happen to
one of his constituents Last spring he
was requested by the said constituent to
exercise in his behalf one of the func-
him some garden seed from the depart
ment of agriculture The member has
tened to comply, and contingent OF
seed was at once dispatched to the Hi
nois man They went, of course, in a
government envelope or envelopes by
mail, with the usual legend, $500 pen.
atty for private use. -
In due course the congressman, to
show his interest in the welfare Of his
constituent, wrote to him asking if the
seed had been received and if they had
grown all right. The constituent replied
that they had been planted and had
come up finely, but, said he in Lis
letter, what shall l do with the stuff
have raised? notice there is a penal
ty of $500 for private use, so l don't
like to take any chances.
This was construction put upon it
which the congressman had not before
thought of, and the more he thought of
it the more he wondered what would
happen to that constituent in Illinois,
and he is still wondering. " Washing
ton Letter.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10
Pictures With PAPER and Paste.

Marian is a little girl who likes to
make pictures. Sometimes she makes
them with a pencil, and sometimes she
makes them by sewing with bright col
ored zephyrs on dainty white cards.
Mamma gave her package of these
pretty colored circles on her birthday,
and ever since then she has been very
happy in working with them.
Mamma often makes stories for the
pictures. and here is one of them:
Oh, Tabby, Tabby, sleek and fat!
You seem very solemn cat,
AS on the round mat in the sun
You sit and blink at every one.
Your coat is thick, so run and play.
Twill keep you warm this winters day.
And then we hear her soft 'Purr, purr,"
AS off she goes, all dressed in fur.
Emma g. Salisbury in Child Garden.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10
TOO MUCH FOR HIM.
The Book Agent Sadly Discovered That
He Had Tackled the Wrong Man.

The Book Agent Sadly Discovered That
He Had Tackled the Wrong Man.
A young man, with large book un-
der his arm and by 8 smile OH his
mug, stuck his head into the ticket win
dow at the Union depot and asked the
clerk what the fare was to San Antonio.
"Ten dollars and fifteen cents, re-
piled the ticket Singer.
II am pining to leave Galveston, but
I lack just $40 of the ticket money.
However, that shan't part us. I'll
make partial cash payment Of 8 cents
and take the rest out in trade. I"
"What do you mean by taking it out
in trader"
II am book agent. and if you will
let me have the ticket | won't try to
sell you a book won't say book to
you once This is the most liberal and
advantageous offer ever made to the
public, and you ought to take advan-
tage of it. | have been known to talk a
man so completely out of his senses in
Is minutes that he wasn't even tit to
send to the legislature afterward. y
"What book have you got?' asked
the ticket agent.
A beaming smile came over the book
agents face, and in singsong voice
be began:
81 am offering, in II volumes, DIR.
Whif1etree's Observations In Pales-
tine, book that should be in every
family, book that comprises the views
of the intelligent doctor on what he saw
in the Holy Land, with numerous spec
ulations and theories Oh what he did
not see, altogether forming complete
library of deep research, pure theology
and chaste imagery | am now offering
this invaluable encyclopedia for the un-
precedented low price of So volume,
which is really giving it away for moth
ing"
After the book agent had kept this
up for about ten minutes he began to
grow discouraged. Instead Of showing
signs of weakening, the ticket agent,
with an ecstatic smile on his face, beg
ged the eloquent man to keep on.
The book agent stopped to rest his
Jaw, when the ticket man reached out
his hand and said:
"Shake, ole fel! Come inside and
take chair and sing that all over again.
That cheers me up like a cocktail. l
used to be book agent myself before
I reformed and went into the railroad
business, and that is like music to me.
1t soothes me all over. 1t calls back
hallowed memories of the past and
makes me want to 60 out on the road
again. l would rather pay $50 than have
you leave Galveston. You must come
around every day. | could listen to that
all day and cry for more
The book agent shut his book and
said.
"Some Internal hyena has given me
away, but there is another railroad that
| can get out of this one horse town on.
I'll not consent to travel on any road
that doesn't employ gentlemen who can
treat cash customer with common po-
likeness. You can't capture my book on
any terms, and if you will come out OF
your cage I'll punch your head in less
time than you can punch ticket" And
he passed out like a beautiful DREAM
Galveston News
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10
The Ball Nozzle.

According to Chief Bonner, the ball
nozzle which has excited so much inter
est throughout the country is destined to
work radical and highly beneficial
change in the system of fighting fire.
Instead of working at distance with
straight streams, firemen, by using the
ball nozzle, can enter burning buildings
and work at close range, thus not only
doing more effective work, but averting
to a considerable extent the serious dam
age to interior property, and in many
cases this system will enable firemen to
save the lives of inmates of burning
buildings. The man who has given the
world an appliance of such value is GER
tainly entitled to the gratitude of his
fellow men.-New York Tribune
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10
Target Practice In Texas.

silver dollars in our vault" said sub
treasury official. eve also have over
500. 900 half dollar, quarter and dime
pieces, which have become too thin for
use. 1t is a curious thing that the mutt
lated dollars which we receive from
Texas are deeply indented. This is re-
suit of the target practice in Texas The
crack shots down there think that sill
yer dollar is the best kind of a mark.
Do we give good dollar for a mutilated
one? That depends upon the extent of
the mutilation. We have a discretionary
power in this respect. '-Exchange.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10
$IOO REWARD 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
in all it's stages and that is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work.
The proprietors have so much faith in its
curative powers, that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that it fails to
cure Send tor list of Testimonials.
Address,
FL. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
~Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10

The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany have placed an order TOR 1900 Blick-
ensderfer's Typewriters, for use In their
offices throughout the United States. This
is perhaps the largest order ever placed for
typewriters and is certainly strong testi-
mOnial for the superior merits of the
Blickensderfer Machine. We understand
this machine embodies the latest patented
Improvements (and weighing but 6pounds
priced machine in quality of work, and ex-
GELS them all in convenience. The Blick-
ensderter is ready for sale in Oregon,
Washington AMI Idaho. Agents a'e
wanted In every county. Good lively ones
can make handsome salary.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10

She Is so careful she will say,
Lest she should fib, though biindly,
Aunt Lucy's very well to day
Perhaps thank you kindly"
AUNT buys-l am not certain, quite
Cream cheese of Farmer Acres"
81 think the turning to the right
Will bring you to the bakers"
She takes the teacup from the shelf
The big best cup-and fills it,
And brings the parsons tea herself.
And never, never spills it.
The parson holds it on his knee
And sips it at his leisure.
"A careful little maid" says he.
Miss Lucy beams with pleasure.
Her slippers ne'er were known to squeak;
Her frills are crisp and snowy;
Her nut brown hair is meek and sleek
In weather wild and blOwy.
The other children hear the praise
If cross or careless they be
OF all the prim and pretty ways
Of little Prudence Maybe.
The girls whose games she does not share
Unkind opinions handy.
She's made of china, some declare,
And some of sugar candy.
Dear little heart! Should she confess,
She's sometimes rather lonely,
This very pink of perfectness,
Aunt Lucy's one and only.
Helen Gray Cone in st. Nicholas.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10

There is certainly some slight feeling OF
humiliation in being bent down and OBJ
liged to creep along for fear of snap In
the spinal column. 1t is such a plain show
of decreptitude that we feel embarrassed.
1t is seen every day when lumbago takes
a good hold on stitch in the back. There
is very little sympathy for one in such a
plight, for it is so we'll known that St.
Jacobs Oil will cure it promptly and that
neglect is the cause of so much disability.
why not keep the remedy always on hand
and prevent such discomfort.
"Mary" said the sick man to his wife, when
the doctor pronounced it a case OF smallpox,
"if any of my creditors CALL tell them that at
last am in a condition to give them some
thing"
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10
A Dumas Anecdote.

In the days of his afauence some one
came to Dumas pere for so sous to help
bury friend.
"What was he?" inquired Dumas.
rover.
Dumas eyes lit with memories. He
ran to his desk and returned with
note, which he thrust into the man s
hand: "You say it costs so sous? Here
are 100. Bury two of 'eml"
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10
A Sample.

Sub-Here is a letter from Anxious
Subscriber.
Chief-What does he want to know?
Subtle wants to know how long q
man would live if there were no sucb
thing as death.-Spa1e Moments.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10
A Case In Point.

Teacher-As the twig is bent the
tree is inclined. Do you quite under
stand what that meansf
Scholar-Yes, sir. When bicyclists
grow up. they'll walk STOPPING. Lon.
don GlobA
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10

wish the Teller wot writes school
books wouldn't guess at the answers to
questions in the rithmetic. I've done
this example four times now. but can't
get the answer that's in the book The
books wrong.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10
POSTPONED.

Rollins-Why don't you buy wheel
and stop bor1 rowing?
Bangem-I can't ride we'll enough
get.-Lifa
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10

FITS.-Al fits stopped free by DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve kestOrer. No fits after the first
days use Marvellous cures. Treatise and 81 90
trial bottle tree to Fit cases Send to Dr. Kline,
93l Arch St, Philadelphia Pa.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10

Piso's Cure is the medicine to break up
children's Coughs and Colds.-MRs. M. G.
BLUNT, Sprague, WASH, March 8, 1894.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10
FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
A Careful Little Maid.

A Careful Little Maid.
The people say in Dimpledell-
They've known her from baby
There's not a child behaves as well
AS little Prudence Maybe.
When any body looks at her,
She curtsies most precisely;
Her aunt, Miss Lucy Lavender,
Has brought her up so nicely.
This Dimpledell in Dorset lies.
village like toy one,
Its tiled roofs rise meath dappled skies
Whose light showers don't annoy one.
TITS clean and neat, and green and sweet
The country lanes about it,
And Prudence dwells in Primrose street
Inquire there if you doubt it.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-10

TRY GERMEA for breakfast.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-07-05
NOT PROPERLY REPORTED.
A Statement From the American Fire
Insurance Company.

A Statement From the American Fire
Insurance Company.
New York, June 29.-At the Office
of the American Fire Insurance Com
pany today, President (pro tenn Wood,
who succeeded Provisional President
Crotins in the management of the COM
pany, was engaged in preparing a
statement of the condition of the COM
pany, which he said was not rightly
reported in the report of the insurance
superintendent, published in the pa
pers. He says the condition of the
company, is different from that at the
time Mr.. Pierce prepared his report,
owing to the fact that the unexpired
business of the company had been re-
insured and that the company had net
ted handsome sum in commissions.
President Silas P. Wood said:
"Our capital now is practically il
tact, and a meeting of the executive
committee has been called for this
afternoon, when it will be made en-
tirely so.'
He does not believe it has been en-
tirely shown that ex-President Crotin
has been protected to the extent of I
dollar in the transactions conducted b.
him. Business offered at undesirabl
points will not be accepted in future
and the company will be managed on
more desirable basis.