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Evening journal., 1896-10-12
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A certain family whose home is in
the suburbs of London have in their
employ a cook whose ways are invari-
ably so methodicGl and her cooking so
near perfection that were she TO leave
her present home one-half of the mis-
tresses in the district would he eager TO
secure her services. Never by any chance
has dinner been late at Myrtle Villa, or
the joint under or over done, neither has
any policeman crossed its threshold.
But, treasure that she is, she came near
to making a change of residence at the
close Of her very first months stay.
On the morning Of the day upon which
her wages became due her mistress re-
quested her to step into the study where
her master was waiting to pay her. In
a few moments she rushed from the
study to the kitchen, where she had
left her mistress, and in less time than
it takes to narrate had given that aston
ished lady notice.
But whatever is the matter, Maryg'
inquired her mistress. "What has your
master said or done to annoy your"
HE hasn't said nuthin," replied
Mary as she fourished a check in her
mistress face, "but he's on'y given me
this for a months slavery. Not me- ]
amt no ortygraph collector, amt. -
Amusing Journal
Evening journal., 1896-10-12
LETTER FROM Mr.. BAYARD.

SAID THAT SOUND MONEY MEN
WILL EXPLOIT IT AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE.
It is said that Hon. Thomas f. Bay
ard, ambassador to Great Britain, has
written a long letter to a friend of his
in Wilmington in which he endorses
the action of the Indianapolis conven-
ton in nominating Palmer and Buck
ner and also the work of the sound
money Democrats in Delaware in put
ting up electors and congressman.
His son, Thomas +. Bayard, Jr., the
sound money candidate for Congress.
says that he knows nothing of such a
letter. Christopher l.. Ward and other
men prominent in the sound money
camp are also ignorant of it, but there
is reason to believe that it is here and
will be exploited at the earliest possible
opportunity. An Evening Journal re-
porter endeavored to see John S. R'u-
sell, who usually knows all about such
things, but he is out of town to-day.
Mr.. Bayard's attitude does not occa-
sion surprise, for he is a prominent fig
ure in and an earnest advocate of Mr..
Cleveland's administration.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12
The Hard LILO Of an African Baby.

note at Chikwa's S that the little baby
strapped to his mothers back has
rough and tumble time of it, but takes
it all good naturedly, and one hears
very little crying in the village. The
mother goes to the fields with baby on
her back, bobs about for hours in the
hot sun, wedding, hoeing and doing
general gardening; carries huge jars of
water on her head; scrapes him repeat
edly as she bends and enters the narrow,
low doorways Of native huts; gives him
a thorough shaking as she vigorously
pounds corn with long wooden pestle (;
takes him by the wrist, ducks him in
the stream till he,is nearly suffocated
and then spreads him on a mat to dry.
Century.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12
KENNARD co
62l-623 MaTlei Street.

Every stock is now in line
with choice offerings,
Our Cloak Department call;
for more than passing com
ment, nothing in correct styles
good wearing ma erials anc
faultless workmanship has beer
overlooked in the selection O
our stock of Ladies ano
Misses Jackets and Capes.
Our prices will appeal td
every purchaser.
Ladies Jackets and Cape
at SIS 90, SO 90, $500, $1,000
$I2,oo, Sis 90, $I8 90, $2ooc
$22 90, S25 co.
Misses Jackets, SIS oc
5000, So 90, $1,000, $I2.od
and $500.
A handsome line of Ladies
and Misses Waterproof Mack
intoshes-new style-doubl
cape, detachable. Ladies a
$500, 50 90, $3.50, $1,000
SI2oo and $500. Chi
dren's, 81 so and 81. so
We refund the money
these garments fail to prov
thoroughly waterproof.
Every garment we show !
new this season and made t
our order.
Nothing short of a persona
inspection will give you al
adequate idea of the largene,
and completeness of our Blacl
and Colored Dress Coco
stocks. We are showing IL.
newest things only in all III
new weaves in Cheviot, Boq
Gle, Scotch and Canvas weave
in Blacks as we'll as the neI
est combinations of colors.
We have a lining stock tn,
you can depend on. A god
lining will make even a chez
dress do good service. N
poor or doubtful Innings
any kind find shelf room her
When in need of Innings VI
will be glad to have you giI
this department a test.
Ne open to-day a new lii
of Leather goods. Ladia
Purses, Combination Bool5
Chatelaine Bags-in all grads
and styles of leather-bor
plain and silver trimmed, !
well made and of the best nc
terials-prices range from !
cents to $500 each-with lo
of price between. :
Evening journal., 1896-10-12
ENDORSING CANDIDATEL.
SIX. AND POSSIBLY TEN, PROHIBI-
TION DELEGATES AGREED UPON.

A temperance reform convention was
held in Fletcher Hall this morning, be-
ginning at IL o'clock. George w. Todd
called the convention to order and
nominated Presiding Elder Barrett as
chairman. DR.. Barrett presided and
Rev. o. G. Buddington acted as secre-
tary. There was a good representation
of temperance workers present from all
parts of the county.
The delegates for Constitutional Con-
yention to be submitted to the support
of all church people in New Castle
county are:
George B. Money, Union Republican,
Red Lion hundred; Andrew l.. John
son, Democrat Wilmington hundred; F;
Alfred d. Warner, regular Republican,
Wilmington hundred; Edward G. Brad
ford, regular Republican, Christiana
hundred; Elias N. Moore, regular Re
publican, Appoquinimink hundred ;
Martin b. Burris, regular Republican,
st. Georges hundred.
Those who may be endorsed are:
Spencer Chandler, Union Republican,
Mill Creek hundred; John Biggs,
Democrat, Wilmington hundred; Will
liam c. Spruance, regular Republican,
Wilmington hundred; Robert G. Har-
man, Democrat, Wilmington hundred.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12

impose on them any risk in the loss Of
profits In times when the business is
carried on at loss. II is a scheme
which makes no provision for anything
but successful business. The work
men get their wages, in any event, and
their dividends, If the business is
carried on at a profit, while if it is car
ried on at loss those who supply the
capital get nothing. It is, therefore,
not what it is intended to be for the
mutual advantage of all parties.
Yet in spite OF all this, in cases where
plans for cooperation of thiskind have
been begun, the wage-earners have, as
rule, become tired more quickly OF
the system than their employers. They
do not understand all the details of the
business, and are apt to get suspicious
that they are not fairly dealt with.
AS result cooperation, as It has
been tried, with chances in favor Of the
employees, has not proved a success. So
far 1t has been OF no practical use to
either capital or labor. It is a dream,
the utility Of which is still beyond
comprehension.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12
Pressure on a Bicycle Tire.

Some interesting experiments have
been made as to the air pressure in BIZ
cycle tires. As the bicycle stood alone
the pressure ON the front tire was 3
pounds and on the rear tire 26 pounds.
When the rider mounted, the increase
in the pressuse in the front wheel was
not perceptible, and in the rear wheel
it was less than half a pound The
rider weighed 10 pounds.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12
AN AssENTMlNpEp MAN.

viii tell you while l can
OF an absentminded man,
And an absentminded man was h.
Who forgot an unkind word
Just as soon as il was heard,
Such an absentminded man was he.
In political debate,
Now, can most truly state,
Such an absentminded man was he
His opponent On the street
With handshule he would greet,
Such an absentminded man was he.
Once he left a goodly store
at poor old widow door,
Such an absentminded man was he,
And, although twas all the same,
Quite forgot to leave his name,
Such an absentminded man was he
You SEQ
Such an absentminded man was he.
Caroline f. Needham in st. Nicholas.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12
A DESPONDENT DRUG CLERK.
GEORGE B. CAMPBELL TRIED To
TAKE HIS OWN LIFE.

George b. Campbell % years old, at
tempted to commit suicide by shooting
himself on Saturday night. The first
bullet passed through the fieshy part
of the arm and the second through the
left breast, just over the heart. He was
taken to the Delaware Hospital. DR..
Shortlidge attended him and succeeded
in extracting the bullets. Campbell
has been despondent for some time.
IL is reported that Campbell's home
life had not been pleasant of late; that
his parents will have nothing to do
with him, but that the reason they will
not state Saturday a friend called for
him to go out for a walk, and when
he returned he had been drinking. DR..
Quinn, who employed Campbell, was
playing the piano and heard two shots
Rushing up stairs he saw the would-be
suicide standing with the smoking re-
volver in his hand. He took the revol-
yer from Campbell, asking him what he
meant. Campbell replied: you know
what 1 mean. l am sick and sore and
tired of living"
Campbell, when drinking, broods
over the trouble with his parents. He
is an inveterate cigarette smoker and
this, his friends think, is the cause of
his downfall. It was reported that the
Delaware Hospital to-day that he is
/ improving
Evening journal., 1896-10-12
HIs MIssIoN A FAILuRE.

Hon. Thomas b. Reed was brought
here for a double purpose. In the first
place he was expected to answer Hon.
William j. Bryan and Senator Stewart
and, in the second place, to give Con-
gresham Willis a big boost for re-elec-
tion, and to do the Addicks cause in
Delaware some good. He accomplished
neither purpose He did not convert a
free silver advocate to the support of
the gold standard, and we doubt
whether any true Republican was in
fluenced in Congressman Willis's favor
by the few words OF endorsement that
Mr.. Reed said. Regular Republicans
see behind both Messrs. willis and Hof-
fecker the shadow OF Addicks and his
domineering and corrupting influence
They know that Mr.. Reed came here to
boost Mr.. Willis If he could, and, il he
could not. to let him down as easily as
possible.
Try as they may, the Addicks people
cannot break the force OF their own
fall. II is preordained, and all the Czai
Reeds in the country cannot save Ia,
cause Of Addicksism.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12
THE DREAM OF COOPERATION.

THE DREAM OF COOPERATION.
There are many men in this country
OF wealth and philanthropic ideas who
have for years looked upon co-opera-
tion between capital and labor as
means by which the present antagon-
ism between these two classes Of so
ciety can be solved It looks like the
simplest thing in the world for capi-
talists to propose a form OF co-opera-
tion which would benefit both them and
their employees; but almost all practical
attempts to do this have come to grief
No plan has yet been devised that will
do justice to both employers and en-
ployed, so that the hope Of successful
cooperation is still a dream.
A plan Of this kind for giving work
ingmen in large establishments a share
OF the profits was attempted in one of
our large cotton mills a few years ago.
1t was arranged that those in the COM
pany's employ should receive some
share OF the profits from July, 1889, to
January, 1890, and that the same
should be paid to them in cash on Febe
ruary 10, 1890. This dividend TO the
learners was not to take so much
OF the profits as to prevent the stock
holders from receiving a six per cent
dividend on their stock, and was to oe
arranged by the same directors who
made up the regular dividend for the
stockholders, the employees, during the
time, to receive regular weekly wages.
BY this plan the stockholders agreed
that the labor Of the employees should
Offset the capital which they invested
to a certain extent. and 1t appeared t.
be a generous move on their part
Other plans of a similar nature wer'
introduced elsewhere, so that at on'
time there were some fifty different es
tablishments throughout the countr.
that tried profit-sharing with their EN-
ployes. But of all of these in whicl
profit-sharing promised the best re
suits. there are only five, or about one
tenth of the original number, tina
still continue it, Why is this so?
Good as these plans were in theory
they were really cooperative in prac
tice. One, and perhaps the most diff
cult feature of them being, that Will
such an arrangement proposes 10 shaT
with the workmen the profits that al
made in times Of prosperity, il does nc
Evening journal., 1896-10-12

If an oil can is not at hand to remedy
a creaking hinge, the noise can often be
stopped by using soft lead pencil.
Moisten the lead point and rub it into
all the cracks and crevioes that can be
reached.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12

ton Hall, No 1907 Market street.
Hon. Ebe w. Tunnel. Hon. l.. lrv
ing Handy, General X. r. Kenney,
John f. Salisbury, Peter j. Ford and
others will address Democratic meet
ings as follows: October "a, Harring-
ton; October o. Dover; October, 2S,
Camden; October 20, FELTON, and Fred
erica; October 81, Smyrna and Milford.
Speaker of the House II. II. McMul-
len. of New Castle, denies that he
pledged the Single Takers to vote for
their New Castle experimental bill two
years ago.
An important meeting of the Repub-
lican First District Committee will be
held tonight.
Volney b. Cushing, of Maine, is an
nounced to address a meeting at
Fourth and Market streets next Mon
day evening, or, if rainy, in Associa-
tion Hall.
The Wilmington Hundred Committee
viii meet tonight in the Smith Build
ing.
There was a conference of regular
Republicans held at headquarters on
Saturday night for the purpose of ar
ranging details for campaign work. II
was decided to hold big meeting at
Wilmington, Dover, Milford, George
town, Laurel and Bridgeville, and
smaller ones in every town and hamlet
in New Castle county. Theodore Roose-
welt and Judge Taney will be among
the outside speakers.
There will be a hickory pole raising
by the Democrats of McClellandsville,
above Newark, on Thursday afternoon.
John S. Writ of Elkton, Md; Hon. L.
Irving Handy and Pierce Blair Pie, Of
Newark, will be the speakers.
Between 200 and 300 Democrats as
sembled at Summit Bridge on Saturday
evening and heard Hon. L. Irving
Handy, e. r. Cochran, Jr, and Josiah
Marvel discuss the issues of the cam
/ paign.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12
10 FIGHT IN WILMINGTON.

Frank Wongo, the light-weigt In1
dian pugilist OF Norfolk, Va, and G. u
Moriarity, of Wilmington, will meet IN
this city on October 20. At the same
time Yuen Lee and Jimmy" Rogers
ot Wilmington, will box six rounds
Lee is the Chinese pugilist whom Moril
arity has been training.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12
rRAIN RROKE IN TWO.

The p, w. & B. railroad express
usually arriving in Wilmington at l.55
O'Clock, was an hour late yesterday
morning, caused by its breaking in two
near Elkton. An extra engine was nee
essary to bring it to this city.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12
FATHER MATTHEW'S BIRTHnAY.

The Catholic Total Abstinence I'M
ion, OF Wilmington, celebrated the
birthday of Father Matthew, the found
er of the society yesterday The meeting
was held in ST. Patrick's Church. A
large audience was present. Father
Flynn was the chief speaker and made
a stirring address on the evils of in
temperance.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12

In summer time. when the new moon
falls between 2 and 4 a. m, the proba-
bility is for cooler weather, with show
ers
Evening journal., 1896-10-12

Don't Worry about your health. Keep
your blood pure by taking Hoods Sarsa-
parilla and you need not fear the grip.
colds, bronchitis, pneumonia or typhoid
fever.
Hoods Pills are the favorite family ca
thartic, easy 10 take, easy TO operate.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12

John II. Williams, burgess Of Nor
ristown who died on Saturday, had
many friends in the newspaper fra
ternity. While not known personally
to the younger generation Of news
paper men in Wilmington, his connec-
tion with the old Daily Commercial is
one OF the traditions handed down to
them, and they have always cherished
the memory Of theman who was born,
grew up, got married and lived"
Evening journal., 1896-10-12
POLITICAL NOTES.

The witch Of Salem, N. Y, predicts
that William ]. Bryan will be the next
president. For sixteen years the mad
anne has predicted the result of the
presidential elections several weeks be-
fore polling day. Not once has
she failed. In 1884 she predicted
Cleveland's election. In 1888 she fore
told HarrisOn's success, and in 1892
prOphesied Mr.. Clevland's second term.
In the presence of a group of reporters
she predicted the election of Mr..
Bryan. She says Bryan has a chance of
carrying New York and that Mr. Nc
Kinley will not carry Ohio, his own
state. She also says that times will
improve.
Complaint is made from the voters
of the First district of the Eleventh
ward, of the manner in which the reg
istration officers stamped the receipts
Instead Of stamping them 1896, they
use the stamp Of 1895, which will de-
priye the men of vote.
Peter S. Blake will address the Bach
Republican Club, OF the Second ward,
this evening.
Among the "lower Delaware" poll
ticians who were in Wilmington on
Saturday evening to attend the Reed
meeting were: Sheriff Joseph ID. Trux-
ton, Charles L. Moore, W. G.. Thor
oughgood, DR.. Caleb Layton, Joseph L.
Cahall, L. l.. Layton, Frederic Walls
Robert N. Richards, Frank M. Jones
John Barr and Robert G. Houston.
Rev. A. S. Mowbray will speak at the
meeting OF the Wilmington Prohihi-
tion League this evening in AssCcia-
Evening journal., 1896-10-12

It is easy to formulate election re-
turns in advance that elect either
Bryan or Mckinley, but no one has
been brave enough yet to attempt to
show in what shape the election will
leave Sewall and Tom Watson.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12

Florlda's tidal waves, it is to be
hoped, will not be of political kind
this year, for there was a time when
the whole country was intensely in
terested in the returns from Dade
county in that state, and when presi-
Dental election could not be decided
without them. 1t was at the close of
the TildenHayes campaign, and the
county went for the latter by a very
small majority. If we remember
Alright, it was only two.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12

Until recently the Weather Bureau
has for a long time been very correct
in It's predictions. These are based
upon the reports Of stations located in
all parts Of the country, by which
storms can be foreseen and traced. The
late storm, which was not correctly To-
Gated, came from the Atlantic ocean,
and as we have no stations there, it is
no wonder that it was not foreseen and
heralded in the usual manner.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12

Rev. A. S. Mowbray will speak at the
meeting OF the Wilmington Prohihi-
tion League this evening in AssCeia-
Evening journal., 1896-10-12

An important meeting of the Repub-
lican First District Committee will be
held tonight.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12

Speaker of the House Fl. II. McMul-
len, of New Castle, denies that he
pledged the Single Takers to vote for
their New Castle experimental bill two
years ago.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12

Volney b. Cushing, of Maine, is an
nounced to address a meeting at
Fourth and Market streets next Mon
day evening, or, if rainy, in Associa-
ton Hall.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN
CONGRESS.
L. IRVING HANDY.
Of New Castle County.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12

The Wilmington Hundred Committee
will meet tonight in the Smith Build
ing.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12

FOR SHERIFF..
JAMES B. TOMAN,
OF New Castle Hundred.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12

Peter S. Blake will address the Bach
Republican Club, Of the Second ward,
this evening.
Evening journal., 1896-10-12

FOR CORONER,
GEORGE A. WILLIS,
OF Wilmington Hundred.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-22

rise above what is commonly called politics,
INTO the realm of reason, National sentiment
ana OF that sense which we call common. Par
ties are shaken and men look for the great
guides of conduot-justice and truth.
Inc question before the country, than which
nothing more important has risen since the
Civil War, is the imitation of the currency,
which has social and moral bearings far be-
yond the bounds of what we call politics.
Money is materialized ethics, the measure of
the value of the property of the people. To
highest crimes.
1t has been common for us as citizens OF a
Tree State to say that National election, with
all Its noise and tumult is an education OF the
people, Never was that truer than to-day, and
In the judgments of the common mind, based
not on learning but on the instincts of COM
mon sense, backed by the experi ience of ma
lions and mankind. This is the ground of the
famous saying OF great philanthropic writer:
The voters OF the United States have several
times IN dealing with financial questions ap-
parently been about 10 do the wrong thing,
but always at the critical moment the great
common sense OF the people has asserted It
sell and the wrong thing has been put down
and the right thing made to prevail"
And what is this experience of mankind ont
of which philosophy is made as the teacher Of
nations? That the initiation OF the currency
OF nation has always been followed by ma
uonal and moral disaster. 1t plays hocns-
pocus, q kind of dark-lantern fash, on the
mind, and men think that money is wealth
ana that because money is plenty they are
rich. The mind is intoxicated as when real
estate is sold to the sound OF fife and drum
aud town lots seven miles from anywhere are
seen in the dizzy future es the center OF thick
peopled cities. The industrious, frugal, busy
man is led to believe that If there are more
yard -stic-p there will be more CLOTH and that
If weights and measures are multiplied there
Will be more tea, coffee, sugar and wheat.
This is the old story over and over the world
over Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Cal
houn utter the same voice, and all experience
whether OF National necessity or of personal
ambition, from the Red Dog currency of the
Middle West to the war necessities of the Gov
ernment, which knows no law but the law of
war, to the fiat money" which Garfield, of
illustrious memory for tnat, dashed into the
abyss of nothing, all consent in the same re-
suit. Emerson deplored it. for it corrupted
the public morals. and George Bancroft de-
plored 1t. for it increased the hardships and
distresses of the poor.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-22
SENT TO SAN QUENTIN.

Hannah cambridge Committed to States
Prison Instead of County Jail.
Hannah cambridge, the woman who
was last week returned to the City Prison
in a state of intoxication, after having
pleaded guilty to charge of grand lar
ceny, was yesterday before Judge Belchel
for sentence.
While recovering from the effects of her
debauch the cambridge woman intimated
to the prison officials that she would, when
up for sentence, tell the names of two DO
licemen who had induced her to commit
the crime and who had shared the pro-
ceeds.
Judge Belcher read the statement as
published in THE CALL, ana when the
prisoner appeared yesterday asked her if
she wished to make any statement or
withdraw her plea of guilty. The pris-
oner had nothing to say, but her attorney
in her behalf remarked that she belonged
to respectable family and that she had
never before been arrested. He said that sh e
did not receive 5 cents of the proceeds of
her crime; that she did not deny that she
was guilty. The clemeney of the court
was therefore asked.
The argument seemed to have had little
effect on Judge Belcher, who sentenced
the prisoner to two and a half years in
San Quentin.