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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-07-31
The Killed and Injured.

Among the known dead are the follow.
ing from Bridgeton: ]. d. Johnston
Charles d. ID. Bounoughas, P. H, Gold
smith, John Griener, Charles McGcar,
HRS Joshua Earnest, Frazier Bell and
wife, and Mr.and Mrs. Richard Trenchard.
Among the other known dead are: p. s.
Murphy, Millville, N. j.; Samuel Thorne,
baggage master of the Reading train. At
lantic City; d, E. Wood, Philadelphia;
Charles Ecker, Salem, N, j. Franklin
Dubois, Woodruff, N. j.; middle aged
woman with ring g, to V. initial boy
about years old Edward FAIR, engineer
of the Reading train; g. B. Taylor Seven
teen unidentified women, four men and q
female child, all dead, were brought to the
Excursion House after midnight.
The list of injured is as follows: Howard
Woodland, broken arm Samuel Muta scalp
wound and internally injured William
Baughn, back hurt and head severely cut:
Charles c. Ronick, badly cut about head;
Violet Alfred, face cut and nose fractured;
Howard Smalley, back broken and head
cut; w. c. Hcmsley, badly injured; Lizzie
G, HemSlcy his wife, body badly bruised;
Lizzie Smallcy and Caroline Smalley,
arms and legs severely injured, G, d.
Frazier and wife, both badly cut on head,
Irwin Dubois, head cut and badly injured
Mrs. Laura Pierce, badly cut, head and
body bruises; Albert Taylor, head cut;
William Boughton, internal injuries; Ed
ward Seeley, head cut Chester Burgcz,
hip injured; ex Judge Jacob Hitchner, in
ternal injuries; Mrs Hitchner, conclusion
of brain; Mrs H. A. Abbott, leg broken;
Fred Shcney, back hurt and internallyin
Jured David Friese, neck dislocated; AL
bert Taylor. three scalp wounds; Jacob
Hitchon, bruised badly about head T. Il,
Morrald, compound fracture of arm;
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-07-31

For eastern Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey Fair; cooler; northerly winds.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20
POETRY.
THE DEAR TOGETHERNESS.

l dreamed Of Paradise-and still,
Though sun lay soft OH vale and hill,
And trees were green and rivers bright
The one dear thing that made delight
BY sun or stars or Eden weather,
Was just that we two were together
L dreamed of fheayen-with God so near
The angels trod the shining sphere,
And each was beautiful the DAYS
Were choral work, were choral praise
And vet in heavens far-Shlninp
weather
The best was still-we were together
L woke-and 10, my dream was true
That happy dream Of me and you.
For Eden, heaven, no need to roam
The foretaste of it all is home.
Where you and through this world s
weather
Still work and praise and thank to.
gether.
Together weave from love nest
For all that's good and sweet and blest
10 brood in, till it come face
a voice, soul, child's embrace
Ana then what peace of Bethlehem
weather,
What songs as we go on together!
Together greet life's solemn real,
Together own one glad ideal,
Together laugh, together ache,
And think one thought, each Others
sake"
And hope one hope-in new-world
weather
To still 60 on, and 60 together
COnU1e0nfiOrulisf
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

A LUDICRoUs MIsTAKE.-A good
story Is told of two young Ameri-
cans travelling in Europe. They
had never thoroughly mastered any
of the languages commonly spoken
on the Continent, and were particu.
larly weak in their French, knowing
that language well enough by sight,
but not having a speaking acquaint.
ance with it.
Finding themselves in q small
French town one evening, they were
desirous of obtaining a good cup of
coffee. Knowing that cafe was
coffee, and that lait was milk, thew
endeavored to call for judicious
mixture of the two, but their articu-
lation was of so remarkable an order
that they succeeded only in getting
the coffee. Cafe au lait they tried
without success. Then du lay, it
was attempted unavailingly. The
suggestion that lait might be pro-
nounced "light" was adopted
equally in vain.
Finally, in despair, one of the
struggling youths exclaimd:
well, it's mighty queer we
don't know enough to get little
drop of milk"
"Do you want milk?" asked the
waitress, opening her mouth for the
first time.
Yves J" stammered the travel
ers, overwhelmed with surprise.
"Then why didn't you say so at
tirst?" queried the girl, as she
fiounced off.
And again the young mon didn't
know.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

WHERE 1T STARTED.-A society
dame who is not just now financially
in condition to consider European
trip has recently been much puzzled,
amused and even annoyed by a
rumor that she expected to pass the
coming summer abroad. So often
has she been asked about her plans,
and so frequently questioned con-
corning the time Of her departure,
ETC., that she became desperate on
the subject, and made determined
effort to chase the report to its lair
and throttle it. After long pursuit,
she discovered another woman who
had been told by another woman
that her servant had the information
directly from Mrs. Society DANES
servant. So the disturbed lady en-
tered her kitchen and interviewed
Margaret.
Margaret, did you tell Mrs.
Beverley's Becky that we were
going to Europe this summer
"Yes'm" answered the unper-
turbed Margaret.
Why, Margaret, what on earth
uIu you w tnat ioI lOu ueNeI
heard us even talk abont such a
trip"
No'm," explained the beaming
Irish girl, but that blartin' Becky
Is alters a.tellin' NV their fine doin's
an COINS an comin's; and sure Oh
wuzn't goin' to have me folks git
left; so tOle um ye wuZ goin' to
stay a year-an' take me along wild
yer for company"
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

AMUSING BULLs.-I once heard a
sermon from an eloquent Irish
Roman Catholic priest, in which his
reverence enjoined upon his hearers
the observance of certain Christian
duties. elf you do not do so and
so," said he, "you will go to the
bottom Of the bottomless pit"
An Irishman, who was very i'll
when the physician told him that he
must prescribe an emetic for him,
said: "Indeed, doctor, an emetic
will never do me any good, for l
have taken several, and could never
keep one of them upon my stom-
aCh."
An Iri5hman, at cards, who, in
specting the pool, found it deficient, ,
exclaimed Here is shilling short !;
who put it in?"
a poor Irish servant-maid, who
was left-handed, placed the knives
and forks upon the dinner-table in
the same awkward fashion. Her
master remarked to her that she had
placed them all left-handed. "Ah,
true, indeed, SIR" she said, land so
L have. Would you be pleased to
help me to turn the table? 2"
Doyle and Yelverton, the two
eminent members of the Irish Bar,
quarrelled one day so violently that
from hard words they came to hard
blows. Doyle, a powerful man at
the fists, knocked down Yelverton
twice, vehemently eXclaiming,
"You scoundrel, III make you be-
have yourself like a gentleman -
To which Yelverton, rising, replied,
with equal indignation, "No, sir !;
never. l defy you. You could not
do it! !"
A merchant, who died suddenly,
left in his bureau letter to one Of
his correspondents, which he had
not sealed. His clerk, seeing it
necessary to send the letter, wrote
at the bottom, "since writing the
above have died.n
A Village cure, preaching about
sudden deaths, cried: "Thus It is
with us. We go to bed we'll, and
get up stone dead !"
An old councillor, Nj. d'Herbaut,
writing to one of his friends of an
estate which he had just bought,
added, There is a chapel upon it,
In which my wife and wish to be
buried, if God spares our lives"
The Hodja Nasr- -Eddin, Turkish
teacher and preacher, one night shot
out of window at what he thought
was a robber, but it turned out next
morning to be his own caftan hang
ing up in the garden. Perceiving
that an arrow had pierced it, he
cried, " Thanks, oh Lord, that 1 was
not inside it, for otherwise l must
have been killed.n
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

REV. DR.. RITCHIE, of Edinbourgh,
though a very clever man, has met
his match. When examining a stu.
dent as to the classes he had attended,
he said, "And you attended the class
for mathematics ?" "Yes.n "HoW
many sides has circle ?" "Two,'
said the student. "What are they p,
What 8 laugh in the class the stu,
dents answer produced, when he
said, " An inside and an outside. 81
But this was nothing compared with
what followed. The doctor having
said to the student, "And you at.
tended the moral philosophy class
also ?" "Yes." Well, you would
hear lectures on various subjects
Did you hear one on cause and effect p
Yes" "Does an effect ever &C
before cause ?" eyes" "Giyt
me an instance" /" A man wheel
ing a barrow" The doctor then ga
down, and proposed no more ques
tions.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20
Habits Of Thought.

Habits of thought are formed, like
other habits, by frequent repetition
OF the same thought or train OF
thoughts, and the dispositions and
conduct of men are insensibly con.
trolled by these mental habits. That
is the reason for the attempts made
by thoughtful parents to instill right
principles in the minds of their
children.
Moral lessons are not given to
them to be learned by rote in the
hope that the children will become
moral by reason of their ability to
recite the lesson given them, but in
the hope that their habits of think.
ing may thus be guided in the right
direction.
One may develop great skill in the
hand by constant practice as, for ex-
ample, in writing. The process at
first IS laborious and slow, every
stroke of the pen requiring to be
considered. But after time greater
facility is attained, and ultimately,
If there has been sufficient practice,
the process of writing becomes auto
matte. The hand forms the letters
without apparent direction the in.
stant the words are suggested to the
mind.
Something of the same kind takes
place with our habits of thought.
Those thoughts which are much
used come to us freely; they become
habitual and color our views of all
questions as they arise. They
should, therefore, be sound, whole
some, hopeful thoughts, for then
they will help to make life pleasant
and guide us in the right direction.
Our thoughts are not altogether
within the control of the will-power,
but our habits of thought can be to
some extent guided and controlled.
Men grow up optimists or pessimists
according to their habits Of thought,
though the original disposition may
be due to what is called tempera-
ment. 1t is conceivable, however,
that child taught to look for the
bright side of everything, encour-
aged to seek out beauty in the COM
monest object, to look for virtue
rather than for vice, to be hopeful
always of the triumph of right prin-
ciples, would grow up with habits of
thought of great value to himself
and to others.
1t is not our own happiness alone
that is concerned with our habits of
thought, but the happiness of those
with whom we are associated. A
bright, CHEEKY disposition has q
wonderful effect in enlIvening other
people, and in congenial company
the action and reaction of such dis
positions upon each other develop
high degree of happiness.
When manhood or womanhood
has been reached habits Of thought
have become tolerably we'll fixed
but even then something may be
done to correct bad disposition
If one, for example, who is disposed
to complain and take gloomy
view of life will persistently
try to find some agreeable view he
will find his thoughts turning more
dnd more easily to the bright side
OF things and ultimately he may be-
come optimistic. IL is quite certain
that children can be thus trained to
happy or unhappy habits of thought,
and that being so trained they be.
come in after life agreeable or dis.
agreeable to themselves and to
Baltimore iStin.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20
POETRY
THE WANDERING GIRL.

Eo search for my wandering boy to.
Yes, search in mad folly's wild whirl
buI 1ring him to me with all his
,, But what of the wandering girl?
1ne proolgai son has welcome at home
Whenever he choose to return,
But q vile, fallen woman restored n
her home
Of an instance we've vet to learn.
Let's think of the wandering girl
awhile, o.
,y Glve the wandering boy rest;
What has she done to make her mora
vile
Than the boy we reform with such
Been drunk in the gutter, from morn
until night
Well, he's done the same, you must
own;
A common street walker, did some one
remarkp
But, really, she can't walk alone.
And what if she has sunk as low as the
boy,
For lower she sure could not land {?
While lifting him up with delirious
joy
Just lend her kind helping hand :
Not the faint hearted clasp of the self
righteous soul,
But the grasp that is hearty and true
on know not the trouble that causes
her to fall,
Nor the storms which her soul has
passed through.
Then search for the wandering girl to.
night,
Go search for her where you will:
Let your souls love shine like beacon
light,
OF her faults let your lips be still,
For she knows her faults better than
you can guess;
With sorrow and sin she is near mad,
And though she may drink some to
deaden her shame,
Please give her the chance the boy s
had.
Then let your love search for the wan
dering girl,
With an earnest desire for her good :
With all the endeayor you search for
the boy,
NJ uch sooner you'll be understood.
She's heart that S reached quicker by
Kindness and love
Than the coarse, selfish heart of the
boy;
And you're helping the work of the
angels above
And to Heaven and earth bring Joy.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

PRE- HAYEs's NEIGHBoR.
President Hayes had for one of
his Ohio neighbors testy old fell
low who kept a small truck farm.
During Mr.. Hayes four years in
the White House, on one Of his Wis
its home he passed this mans farm,
and found him planting potatoes.
The President, being somewhat of a
farmer himself, noticed some eccen-
tricity in his neighbours style of
planting, and after a little chat
called attention to it. The old man
defended his method, and finally
Mr.. Hayes said, as he started along :
"Well. I don't think you will get
the best kind of crop If you plant
in that manner"
The farmer rested his elbows on
the fence.
They amt neither one of us
above having fault found with u.s."
he said but if you jest go on presi.
dentin' the United States your way,
an go on plantin' pertaters my
way, l guess we won't be no wuss
off In the end.o
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

PRETTY fast travelling" said the
drummer, on the New York express,
to Mulcahy. "Ah, nowv replied
Mr.. Mulcahy, "ye should see the
trains In Ireland! l mind whin l
was in the station at Dublin wanst,
and me cousin, Mike Branigan, was
aboord the thrain, and his gurl
had come down to bid him good by.
Just as the thrain started, Mike stuck
his head out of the windy to kiss her
good by, and be gorra he kissed q
cow in the next county 20
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

1T Is related that a New Hamp.
shire minister once portrayed the
history of Jonah after the following
style: " 1 seem to see Jonah passing
along the road to Nineveh 1 seem
to see him entering the ticket Office,
buy his ticket and pay for it; seem
to see him walk upon the vessel
/ seem to see them lift their anchor
and the stately ship move grandly
out upon the broad Atldntic."
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

THE REAL TROUBLE.-Bingo.-
Didn't you have some trouble in
building your house?n
Kingley.-"O Oh, a little. The archi.
tect made slight mistake in the es-
innate, and it cost me four thousand
dollars more than counted on"
Was that all?"
"Ali? No sir. The carpenters
forgot there was such a thing az
specifications, and left out a hall
but of course one shouldn't mind q
little thing like that"
Certainly not"
"Then the pipes were put In
wrong, and had to be replaced"
"That usually happens"
"Oh, yes. Then / neglected my
business for three months trying to
find the architect, and that cost me a
pretty penny"
4" But you expected that"
" Certainly. After the place was
finished / found my old furniture
wouldn't do, and had to get a new
outfit. Then my cellar flooded, the
roof leaked, and the piazza warped
but these things aren't anything to
the trouble Pm in now"
&" What's the matter now?"
" can't sell the house."
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

How MAHANY PRONOUNCED IT.
The other day Congressman Stone,
Of Pennsylvania, who is one of the
practical jokers Of the house, ap-
preached Mr.. Mahany, of New York,
who is an authority on Celtic orthog-
raphy and Ortheopy, says the
Washington Post.
Mahany," said Stone, "how
would you pronounce this word,"
and he spelled 1t out very carefully
-" M-a-c-H-i-n-e-r-y?"
"That's easy" said Mahany ;
&" that's the name Of an old Irish
dook-MacH Hinery, a little bit OF
Danish mixed with Milesian."
You're mistaken" said Stone,
that's pure English-machiuery.'
Mahany collapsed. "Don't tell
anybody" he implored. "If that
got out among the Irish Of my dis
trict 1t would ruin me-"
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

TOMMY SCoREs.-Tommy's fathers
business affairs call him from home
early in the morning and keep him
until late at night, to such an extent
that the two are but slightly ac-
quainted. Recently, the old gentle
man found it necessary to punish
Tommy for some offence, and the
boy, with tears in his eyes, sought his
mother for consolation. Why,
what's the matter, Tommy?" she
asked. "The m-man that s-sleeps
here nights s-spanked me-" he
sObhed
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

A SLIP OF THE PEN.-Mrs. s., a
widow of two years. standing, drew
a check for one hundred and fifty
dollars. Presenting 1t for payment,
she observed an amused expression
on the face of the paying teller, but
she received her money and de-
parted. A month later her book was
written up and her vouchers re-
turned, and the amused expression
on the face of the paying-telier was
explained. Her check Of a month
previous read:
The Blank National Bank toiR
pay to Bearer One Husband and
FIFTY Dollars"
The lady is thinking of suing the
bank for the balance due, for, as she
says, she certainly has not collected
all that the check called for.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20
NUMBER 13.

SAME OLD GIRL.-An old New
York gentleman, meeting his grand
son, said to him, in an impressive
tone of voice, My dear boy, hear
some very discouraging reports
about you. They say you go behind
the scenes, and are very much gone
on Miss Topsie IIiftoe. Is that 30 ?"
Yes, grandpa, to some extent"
" Drop them, my boy. 1 know
them, my son. They are a bad
lot" But, grandpa, the actresses
of the present day are different from
what they were when you were a
young man, fifty years ago." mot
much, my boy. They are mostly
the same identical actresses. Why,
| was engaged once to Miss Topsie
Liftoe myself.n
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

A COCKNEY solicitor, who was
Enthusiastically mixed up In the
use of his h's, while visiting New
York met the late Mr.. Marbury,
one of the wits of the New York
bar. The Englishman, commenting
on the legal profession OF New York,
said that Its members were very
proficient and learned, but that they
were absolutely ignorant on the sub
ject of "hentail." "Ah," answered
Marbury, "my dear sir, we may be
ignorant of the 'hentail,' but our
knowledge Oft the cocktail is unsur.
passed."
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

MORE THAN He ASKED FoR.-
"Good-mOrning, sir; called to see
If 1 could get your certificate for
them corn-plasters you bought of my
agent the other day."
Why, sir, do not understand
you"
Merely a certificate, sir, far
benefits derived from my corn n-plas-
ters."
Oh-ah-yes. understand,
certainly, certainly" and the states.
man wrote:
"To whom it may concern: This
is to certify that if live long enough
l shall be thousand years old next
July. For one hundred and seventy
five years, more or less, I have been
an invalid, unable to move except
by lever. Day before yesterday
bought box of Bluffkin's corn
plasters. Since then can run twenty
miles an hour. Any man who be-
lieVes this and wishes further recon.
dations will gladly be supplied with
like information if this corn-doctor
lives to get out of my Office"
The man of corn-plasters took it
in silence and departed.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

/" IF any here present." said the
officiating clergyman, "can show
just cause why this man and this
woman may not lawfully be joined
together, let him now speak or for
ever hold his peace" The groom
casually laid pair of large revol-
vers on the railing in front of him,
and the ceremony proceeded.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

A MOTHER should give her chill.
dren superabundance of enthusi-
asm, that after they have lost all they
are sure to lose on mixing with the
world, enough may remain to
prompt and support them through
great actions.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

THE supply of wood suitable for
lead pencils Is practically exhausted
in the Old World. An order has
just been placed by noted German
firm of pencil-makers with a Cali.
fornia lumber company for a large
quantity of sequoia wood, which is
found to be the best wood now
available for pencils. The sequoia
Is the big tree Of California.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

MY mother-in-law never under
stands a joke" says correspondent.
$50 I was surprised to receive a
letter from her few weeks after my
little boy had swallowed q farthing,
in which the last words were, HAS
Earnest got over his financial diff
ficulties vet 91O
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

PAT" Ye sez Oi'm not or good
an American as ye are. Begorra,
Opm dom sight better wun.''
Native A. P. A" How is that,
you bOg-trotting Fenian ?" Pat
" Becase ye wuz born an Americin
an cudn't help yerself, whole Opm
one Nv me own free will.n
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

SOMEBODY once asked General
Joseph E. Johnston why the South
ern army did not occupy the Capital
at once after the first Bull Run.
" There were two reasons why we
did not take Washington" said he,
" myself and the Potomac river. I
had reached that age that I knew an
American soldier could not ford q
river a mile wide and eighteen feet
deeDD
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

FOGG thinks it q remarkable in
stance Of the superior intelligence of
the house fly that it can remember,
after lying dormant all winter, which
member of his family Is possessed of
q bald head.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

HAVE you any idea," inquired
Mrs. Longwed, "what is meant by
the fires of lover" "Yes,n replied
Mr.. Longwed, "they are those the
husband makes the first three
months after MARRIAGE
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-08-20

I" So he denied himself for the sake
of his family ?" "Ah, yes, noble
man. His right name was Reginald
Van COrker, but when he was hanged
in Arizona for stealing a mule he
nobly called himself John Smith,