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Evening journal., 1896-02-12

Business has greatly improved TIL
month In the Wholesale meat trade, and
now prices bsvs taken a similar course.
The wholesale price of beef is a hSlf-cent
higher to day than the January prices
and pork Is scSrcs at 0 cents pound
Wholesale
Evening journal., 1896-02-12

UTICA, n. ", Feb 12.-John Coravin,
alias James O'Brion, was sentenced in the
county court for term of six years and
six months for completely in the Vernon
bank robbery IN February. 1895.
Evening journal., 1896-02-12
Burial OF W. Fl. raliferro at Camden.

William a. Taliferro, Sr. who died IN
Camden. as announced In yesterday q
EVENING JOURNAL. WAS member OF
Adelphia Lodge OF Knights and Of Hsr
nony Castle, X. q e., OF this city. Mr..
Tallterro was well and favorably known
here, where he hadsfor several years been
manager Of the yaRgart estate He viii
be buried at Camden to morrow after
noon and u NUMBER Of people from New
Castle will attend the funeral
Evening journal., 1896-02-12

John Young. = newsboy of the VIII
mington Association, fell from the dsck
Of barge at French street wharf this
morning and broke his left arm. The
bow attempted to "chute" down a guy.
line
Evening journal., 1896-02-12

We have q few copies o beautiful
work, handsomely bound, containing aev
eral hundred pictures OF high artistic
merit, which will DO sold at 81 20 a copy,
which is about one fourth the pubiica-
tlon price Also some copies OF Rand and
McNally's Cyclopedia nt 81 20, worth
four times tho price asked Can be seen
at tho EVENING JOURNAL Office
Evening journal., 1896-02-12

Ladies' read the fashion article on the
third page OF this paper and send ten
cents TO the EVENING JOURNAL Office for
an up to date paper pattern.
Evening journal., 1896-02-12
school nratinno or.

The proposed matinee Of the Alumni
Burlesque has been declared of. Choice
30 cent seats may yet be procured for
Thursday aud Friday evenings
Evening journal., 1896-02-12

CAPE Town, Feb. l2.-The Transvaal
governments has ordered two batteries Of
artillery from European firms.
Evening journal., 1896-02-12

New Castle County, Del Jan, Q, 1906 |
Upon the application of Annie O'Connell.
executrix Of Patrick O'COnnell, lac of New
Castle hundred. in said county, deceased, IL Is
ordered and objected by the Regis ter that the
EXecutrix aforesaid give notice OF granting of
Letters Testamentary upon the estate of the
deceased. with the date Of granting thereof
by causing advertisements to be posted within
forty days from the date Of such Letters IN
six OF the mos public places OF the county Of
New Castle. requiring all persons having
demands against the estate to present the
same, OF abide by an act of Assembly in such
case made and provided; aud also cause the
same to be inserted within the sCma period IN
the EVENING JoutNAL. a newspaper pub
lished in Wilminltop, Del. aud to be contin-
ued thertn three weeks. 70. o. d.
Given under the hand and seal
- OF Office Of the Register aforesaid
at Wilmington, In New Castle
l.. 5. county aforesaid. the day and
year above written.
" j. WILKINS COOCH, Register.
NOTICE.
Notice Is hereby given that Letters Testa-
mentary were In due form Of law granted
unto the undersigned, on the ninth day
Of January, A. d., 1895, and that ali persons
having claims against the estate of the de-
ceaeed must present the same. duly attcsted.
TO the said Executrix. on OF before the ninth
day OF january. 1897, or abide by the
Act OF Assembly IN such case made and pro-
vided. ANNIE O'CONNELL,
Executrix.
Address, 1905 Chestnut St, wilmington, Dell
Evening journal., 1896-02-12

Governor Watson has romitted the
lashes and pillory In the case Of John
View. sentenced for entering the stable
OF Dr.. John j. Black. View was son
fenced to one hour and twenty lashes
Evening journal., 1896-02-12

ONCE Seventh and kiag. Phone 646.
II Il Sergeant dealer IN coal and VIC cd
EW~Large pea coal for family use
tx Hickory wood for open qratas
Evening journal., 1896-02-12

Mrs. W. d. Taiiferro, Jr., aud Miss
Emma Harris left for Camden. n. j.,
this morning to be present at the funeral
Of William h Talilerro, Sr.
squire sherwood Of Philadelphia,
left his home last evening for short
visit to Mrs w. f. Hoshebeck
Rev. +. N kunson returned home from
the archdeaconry meeting st Newark on
The 6rst train this morning.
John Rles, Orion A. Carrick. Clptain
j. z Phillips. Mrs. Phillips. Mrs Anna
Graham, Miss Cecelia WeRRenman. Mrs. NJ
Fleming, Mrs. Mary Weggenman and
several other New Castle people saw the
English actress, Miss Nethersoie, ia Will
mington last night.
Evening journal., 1896-02-12
kUREOLE'S BAD SHAPE.
Has Rested On Her Keel
Since Saturday Night.
VIEWS LAsHEs RENTED

f4hWo Lhcunn htMlIlhU
The New Castle Wagon Driver wan Not
ne Punished - the Post-citizena
Pleased with the Enterprise shown BY
tho Gas company-other Happenings
About Town.
Special Correspondence Evening Journal
NEW CASTLE. Feb. 12.-Much anxiety
is now being felt for the British tank
steamer Aureole, aground on the
northern spit OF Fort Delaware, which
got nearly q mile out Of channel and
stranded during Saturday nights blind
ing snow storm. The work OF Tightening
her, proceeds slowly and she does not
yield at all as yet, but still has her list to
stsrbosrd
At o'clock this afternoon. the Aursole
was still hard and fast. Two tugs are
at Delaware street wharf snd under
writer's and agents of l. Westergaard &
Co. Of Philadelphia. are here making
Efforts TO remove, by means Of lighter
ing the vessels entire cargo She has
been resting on her keel since Saturday
night at o'clock.
Figuring on Electric Railway Work.
During the past few weeks several
capitalists have visited the city In rela-
ton to electric railw speculation.
Two Of these visitors, Mr. Treat ard Mr..
King, constructing owners OF electric
roads from New York city, have been
visiting Mayor Boyd and left the city.
very hopeful Of being able to do some
thing for q new railway this Spring.
Another plan Of the spectators is said
10 be to build single track rosd all the
way down TO Augustine Pier for .
Summer excursion road.
Buyers OF Goods Arc Cautious
A business man interested In the
manufacture Of wollen goods said yester-
day: "Orders have been numerous. but
the quantities taken individually show
that buyers are proceeding with much
caution. The general price situation ia
without change, but there are occasional
rectidcations OF opening quotations. which
tend to keep buyers ideas of value some
what unsettled. Clay worsteds and clay
mixtures are selling indlferently, and in
the latter some reductions to last seasons
basis. where early advances thereon had
bten made, are noted. Fine fancy
worsteds have sgain had the bulk Of
attention paid to them. Low grade all
wool goods, satinets and cotton mixed
lines are without change.
Evening journal., 1896-02-12
CITY NEWS in BRIEF.

Key West Segsr at &c Ask your dealer
OF it. Edwin Adams cigar
Evening journal., 1896-02-12

% cigars In box at 800 Sen Auben Sc.
hand made. Durstein's, East Second st.
Evening journal., 1896-02-12
SARAH E. TALLEY.
, EGIsTER's ORDER.

ADMINISTRATORS.
Address. Baldwin Springer, Esq, Whining
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-06

veloped boy, and is as ambitious as he is
small, which is saying a great deal.
Henry is a great reader and has an
honest, open face He is also very good
lnatured, and, considering his size, is
very plump, He is a pupil of the Farm
ers' academy, and his teacher speaks Of
him in the highest terms; she says he
is one of her best scholars and learns
more quickly than the other boys.
The Liliputian has a sleek-coated dog
named Gyp, and the two are familiar to
everyone around about Tweed. Gyp is d
gentle dog; it is lucky for Henry that
this is so, because if Gyp was rough, he
mighteasily KILL Henry, who barely
reaches to the shoulder of the dog when
standing beside him.
Henry is strong for one of his ex-
Itremely diminutive size. He enjoys
big appetite-big for him-and there
really does not seem TO be any reason for
his dwarfshness, since both his father
and mother are persons of ordinary size.
You might think to look at him that
young Kicks was lad of eight. though
his manner is that of a gentlemanly
youth of IS. He scorns the idea of show
ing himself in museums, though he has
had several very liberal offers from we'll
known people in the theatrical bust
ness.
Some day this new Tom Thumb means
tc visit New York. If he takes this trip
he will be the most conspicuous lit.
tie man in the metropolis, and, with his
deg Gyp, he would easily become tl:e
center of all attention; so much so thai
DR.. Depew, Mr.. Roosevelt and Mayor
Strong would have to look to their lau-
rels in the matter of popularity.-N. Y.
Recorder.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-06
CATCHING A SWORDFiSH.
A Task Requiring Considerable Courage
and Much Experience.

anu i1ApeIAohCO'
In the pursuit of the swordfsh the
hunter of the sea finds his greatest ex-
element. There is no slow and careful
batting and patient waiting. The game
is seen-a sharp fin cutting the surface
of the water-and chase that often
ends in a terrible struggle is begun,
for a wounded sworufish often fights
fercely, thrusting its two-edged spear
straight through boat and sometimes
stabbing his pursuers.
But fisherman who has once tried
the sport never tires of it or of its ex-
elements.
Not long ago party set out from
calm, sunny day, and the man in the
cross-trees swept the sea to catch a
glimpse of the white bit of foam that
would show where a swordfsh swan.
For an hour the sloop skinned light
ly along.
"Hey-o," came suddenly from the
man in the rigging.
where away?" sung out the skipper
from his place at the wheel.
"Off the weather bow"
In a moment all eyes were watching a
glistening fin that cut the water ahead.
The mate ran to the bow and took his
place in the pulpit" and, Selling the
steel harpoon, stood ready for the game.
For a few minutes the vessel and the
soldier of the sea ran silently and swift
ly. The skipper gradually drew the
bow around until the huge fish was
close alongside.
Then came the Supreme moment.
AS the little vessel shot into the wind
the mate raised his harpoon and leaned
forward from the pulpit. Every eye
was upon him. For moment the steel
flashed, and then, with crashing
sound, it entered the back of the fish.
STAND clear of the line!" shouted
the mate, as he sprang to the deck.
The warning was well needed, for the
with the sound of a ripsaw. The sword
fish was in flight. When the last yard
spun out the mate tossed overheard
the keg, to which the rope was fastened,
and away it went, followed by wave
Of foam and spray.
A moment later the dory, loaded with
fishermen, pushed it's nose into the sea,
and after a spirited race reached the fly
ing key and pulled it aboard. The half
exhausted fish felt the strain, and the
next instant the dory was rushing
along-a swordfish express.
Slowly the rOne was banlad in tho
prey being given plenty of opportunity
to squirt and wear himself out. Pres
emily the sharp fin was seen close at
hand, and with rush the great fish was
laid alongside.'
Hauled partly out of water by the
rope, the fish gave sudden plunge with
his weapon. Crash it went through the
side of the boat, and the men within
rolled over and let go the rope. There
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-06

Bob is a fine two-year-old mastiff,
with head and face of massive strength.
heightened by great mildness of express
sion. One day he was seen carrying a
hen very gently in his mouth to the ken
mel. Placing her in one corner he stood
sentry while she laid an egg, which he
at once devoured. From that day the
two have been fast friends, the hen re-
fusing to lay anywhere but in Boh's
kennel and getting her reward in the
dainty morsels from his platter. There
must have been a bit of canine reason
ing here. Bob must have found eggs to
his liking, that they were laid by hens,
and that he could best secure a supply
by having hen to himself.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-06

was a sudden plunge and heavy jar.
The Infatuated fish had thrust his sword
through the bottom of the boat, narrow
~ missing an oarsman's leg.
'To the rope" shouted the bowman,
and instantly every man braced himself
and pulled while the water gushed
through a hole in the boat.
A few moments more of terrific strug-
gle and the huge fish was brought along
side. Without giving him another
chance to strike, the bowman lifted an
oar and violent blow on the head killed
the fierce fish.
Luckily the sloop came alongside just
as the dory grew dangerously full of
water, and the daring fishermen climbed
aboard. The fish measured ten feet and
two inches in ength-Chicago Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-06
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
DON'T DECEIVE YOURSELVES.

Boys, don't think that life's long journe;
Ever lies on level ground
Don't suppose that rocks and briers
In your path will ne'er be found
And you needn't look for blessings
To be won without a pain.
You must know some care and trouble,
And must work for what you gain.
Why, you can't expect to loiter
All your lives mid summer bloom.
No. indeed, your paths will often
Lie thro' ways of clouded gloom.
But the darker that the pathway,
Let the brighter be your hope;
Thereby let your will grow stronger
With your obstacles to cope.
Throw away your rosy glasses;
Look at life thro' sober eyes.
1t Is no such easy matter
To its upper ranks TO rise.
Take some hero for example,
Anyone you choose to name,
Read his life, and see if easy
Was the path he trod to fame.
DO not dream of wearing laurels
Till those laurels you have won;
And don't hope to win them either
Till you've fought from sun to sun.
Ev'ry day will date battle;
Stand your ground and fight it out.
Keep the Right your steadfast ally;
Let it e'er put Wrong to rout.
Golden Days.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-06
ELECTRIC FARMING.
A New York Farmer Turns the Sod with
Trolley Plow.

Now for the trolley pillow. The old
time farmer is out of date
Electricity, the master force, which
by the end of the century will dom
mate every field OF human work and
solve all the problems that have so long
batfled mankind, has been enlisted in
the most essential of mortal occupa-
tions-agriculture.
The farming of the future is to be
done by electricity. Dynamos and
wires will attend to the business CT
the big farm. The sonorous gee
haw!" of the up-country soil-tiller will
be heard no more, and the farm hand
who would keep his job will have to be
thoroughly acquainted with ohms,
volts and amperas.
Edward NJ. Bentley, of New York, has
just made a long step toward the es-
Enlistment of electricity as a hard
working factor on the farm. He has
patented an electric pillow, which runs
back and forth across field and turns
up the soil in fashion that would hav e
made pioneer farmers of hundred
years ago stand dumb with amazement.
His invention calls into use the most
recent developments in the line of trans
mission of electric power. A power
house in a centrally located village can
furnish motive force for all the farm
work to be done within radius of
many miles.
Along the two opposite sides OF a
field, poles and wires are put up, and
between these, stretching directly
across the field, is stretched third
wire, which serves as a trolley upon
which the pillow travels. This wire is
slack, so that it may run through the
pillow continuance, which lets out wire
behind as it progresses and'winds it in
at the front.
When the pillow reaches the end of a
furrow the current is automatically re-
versed, so as to start the machine back
again. Thus the pillow goes back and
forth until the whole field is traversed.
The ends of the trolley wire, as the
work progresses, travel along on the
wires strung alongside the feld.-N.
Y Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-06

A dangerous requirement of a pet
blue jay is told about in the American
Naturalist by James Newton Basket, of
Mexico, Mo. The blue jay referred to
somehow learned that parlor, or pop
ping matches, would make delightful
sputter and flame if properly manip-
ulated. The bird was in the habit of
beating much of its food against some
hard substance, perhaps for the purpose
of breaking or softening it. 1t proha-
bly, treated one of the parlor matches in
this way one day, and so learned that
they made noise. When match was
given to it it would hop on a chair
round and strike the illuminate against
the woc', end on, repeating it rapidly
till the head was ignited; then it would
throw it away and watch the flame.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-06
The Cocoanut Pearl,

Tho most peculiar of all the Tems 10
the RI narkable concretions occasion
ally faLnd in the flesh and other por-
tions # the common cocoanut. II is
compo5'ed of pure calcium carbonate,
withoaNt trace of other salts or vege-
table msatter, and is capable of taking
on polish equal to that which an ex-
perienced workman can put on piece
of the fNest Italian marble. Years ago
wonderful stories were told about the
cocoanut pearls, but they were gener-
ally discr%dited by the best known
naturalis'reS 1t was said that they were
priced In nfndia and Africa as charms
against hke bites and those of pois-
onous lnt oets The natives of Molucca
islands, it WAS further said, used them
as charms against disease and evil
spirits. Butt the scientific world laughed
at all thisuiis nonsense up to about ten
years agar9' In 1888 S. ]. Hickman, an
Englishf traveller in the Celebes, OBJ
tanned two fine specimens of the cocoa
nut peaFl. One of these is now in the
Kew Gardens museum, London. A few
years / her DIR. ]. G. F. Riedel collected
severalsgf them. 1t is now no longer
dispute | that such things as "cocoanut
pearls clexist They are real wonders,
too. = b Louis Republic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-06
FARM AND GARDEN.
FUTURE OF FARMING.
A Steady Decrease in New EngIand's
Rural Formulation.

Rural Population.
Undeniably the best crop that the old
farmers produced was men. They sent
forth these hardy young children of the
soil to strengthen and energize all the
| higher forces of our civilization. 1t
might be unjust to say that they are not
doing it still, but it is to less extent,
relatively, than in what are now called
the good old days. The advantages OF
education extend to the boys on tho
farm more than ever before, it is true,
and they grasp them more generally
and more eagerly. But for what pur-
pose? To escape from their humdrum
environment and enter that larger and
more active world where the prizes as
well as the failures are greater. The
passion to see and enjoy life as it is
lived in the great centers of population
md business is more intense than it
ever was in the days that are past, and
education rather stimulates it than
otherwise. Even the farmers them
selves have the infection, and if they do
not encourage they only weakly re-
strain their educated children from
turning their requirements to what
seems to them better account than til
Iage of the soil. Only a small proper
ton even of the graduates of our agri-
cultural colleges, though given a special
technical equipment for that service,
return to the farm. If they can gain
fortune and reputation and experience
IN some other calling they frequently
like to resume farming as an avocatiou,
but only in comparatively rare in.
stances is it adopted as a life work.
These are hard facts, but we might
as well face them. The census reports
show steady decrease of population and
production in the rural portions of the
state, yet educational opportunities
were never before so general or avail
Rble as now. 1t would be a sad confess
sion that there was no remedy for this,
but the remedy has not yet been
found. Education benefits the farmer
as much as the lawyer, both in his bust
ness and his citizenship. and it should
not be held responsible for the depres
sion in agricultural industry; but the
social pace is such that the husband
man cannot follow it. There must
enter into the business the elements
that make success along other lines
cooperation and capital-before it will
tecome attractive to the educated ard
the ambitious.-BostOn Transcript.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-06
A Great Industry.

The Stark Bros Nurseries, this city and
Rockport, ILL.,, is veritable beehive. The
propagating plants of the 1.-TWO Pixies" en-
larged "Old Pixies" statesmen work from
New York Westward. The office force is
hurryfng out 5000 new style canvassing
outfits, photos of fruits, trees, orchards,
packing, fruit painted from nature, etc. Sew
eral departments give all their time to Sc
curing statesmen. Stark Bros have room
for energetic solicitors. With such progress,
and mill.sns of fruit trees, dull times un-
known. -Louisiana Missouri Press.
"MY DEAR" said sick husband, as he lay
with his eyes closed, II think my time has
come at last. / can hear strains of the
sweetest music that ever mortal ear
That's little German band on the street
John" That's So" he said, rousing him
self. "Tell them to move onr'-Harper's
Bazar
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-06
Facts About Blue-Eyed Cats.

1t is a curious fact that blue-eyed
cats are invariably deaf. Mr.. j. Har-
rison Weir, a great authority on the
cat, once bought a big, white, blue-syed
beauty, which seemed to be every inch
a good cat, except that its vocal organ
was of such robust power that ner
cries drove the household frantic. After
some strange experiences the problem
was solved by this voiceful specimen
being taken home by kind old lady,
who was herself stone deaf.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-06
Geese Killed by Hailstones.

Hailstones, the size of pigeon eggs,
according to W. G. McKinnell, of Melita
Man, writing to the London Field, killed
105 Canadian geese during.a heavy thun-
derstorIn recently near Sauris, Man. A
farmer named Coulter found a large
flock of the geese killed or disabled after
the storm, and after killing the living
ones with a stick went home and got a
wagon and took the geese to Sauris and
sold the lot az so cents each. He took in
$3.50 for his windfall.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-06
Oldest Convict In Indiana Die.

Samuel Schupp, the oldest convict in
the state prison south, of Indiana, died
the ether day. He was sent to the pen
iten;iary from Lawrenceburg in 1889
for fife for the killing of his son-in-
law. Schupp was IS years of age. Ira
Grail ~lsaother life prisoner, died few
dave since
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-06
The Modern Way

Commends itself to the well-informed, to
do pleasantly and effectually what was
formerly done in the crudest manner and
disagreeably as well. To cleanse the sys-
TEN and break up colds, headaches and fe-
vers without unpleasant after effects, use
the delightful liquid laxative remedy, Syrup
Of Figs. Manufactured by California Fig
Syrup Company.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-06

Malarial disease is invariably supple
mented by disturbance of the liver, the
bowels, the stomach and the nerves. Tc
the removal of both the cause and its eff
fects, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is fully
adequate. 1t fills the bill" as no Other
remedy does, performing its work thor
oughly. Its ingredients are pure and whole
some, and it admirably serves to build up {
system broken by i'll health and shorn Of
strength. Constipation, liver and kidney
complaint and nervousness are conquered
by it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-06

"Were you ever in cyclone?" asked
a Dallas man of friend who had just
returned from trip east.
81 should say was. was 4 81. Louis
when it struck that town. was eating
dinner when re breeze came along and
turned the house upside down.
"What did you think of it?"
"Think? | thought my wife had lost
her temper again. Texas Sitter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-06

His mother is a boys best friend
And though the happy, careless youth
Is slow to see it, in the end
There shines upon his mind the truth.
One day of sickness, he will find,
viii much more forcefully instill
This lasting thought into his mind
Than forty books of proverbs will.
{ l. A W Rulletin