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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19
1T CANNOT BE.


1t cannot be that lie who made
This wondrous world for our delight,
Designed that all its charms should fade,
And pass forever from our sight;
That all shall witner and decay,
And know on earth no life but this,
With only one finite survey
Of all its beauty and its bliss.
II cannot be that all the years
OF toll and care and grief we live
Shall lind no recompense but tears,
No sweet return that earth can give;
That all that leads us to aspire
And struggle onward to achieve,
With every unattained desire,
Was given only TO deceive.
It cannot be that after all
The mighty conquests of the mind
our thoughts shall pass beyond recall
And leave no record here behind;
That all our dreams of love and fame.
And hopes that time has swept away,
All thai enthralled this mortal frame,
Shall not return some other day.
1t cannot be that all the ties
OF kindred souls and loving. hearts
Are broken when this body dies.
And the immortal mind departs;
That no serener light shall break
At last upon our mortal eyes,
To guide us as our footsteps make
The pilgrimage Of Paradise,
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19

A Statesman Who Found a Use for I
Earnings OF His Pen.

A Statesman Who Found Use for the
Earnings Of His Pen.
g. recall pleasant incident in the
life of tho late Representative Harter
of Ohio, said an Ohio man tho other
day, quotes the Washington Star. -
was at his apartments one evening at
the hotel where he lived during his
frat term in Congress, and was IN the
reception-room with several FRIENDS
while he was working 10 hiH Office at
the far end of the suite oil rooms.
Presently he came out among us laugh
ing and holding in his hand check.
" Oh he said 10 us. | am literary
as well as you are, and here's check
for 500 have Just got from magazine
for an article that wasn't expecting
to get anything for.
81 told him | was not that literary,
for | couldn't sell one article for sou,
and We laughed and chatted while
about it, Mr.. Harter insisting that be
wasn't a writer for money. hut for the
sake of presenting his views to the
world.
:" l don't know what to do with the
check, he said, and turned to his wife.
Do you need iti' he asked.her.
She told him she did not, though
most women would have had use for it
quick enough, and he stood irfesolutely
for a moment with the check in his
hand. Then he smiled radiantly.
know somebody who does want
il, he said, nndding to his wife as il
she never would see it again. i re-
ceived q letter from The pastor of a
little Lutheran church (Mr. Harter
was a jealous Lutheran away out in
Missouri, who is having Il hard time
to get along and keep body and soul
togther, asking me it Couldn't do
something. can send him this check.
AND he danced away with it as ioyously
aa school hoy with plaything. and
10 minute or two the check, duly in
dorsed and accompanied by letter.
was waiting for postman to start it
on it's mission of charity, and have
often wondered what tho business
manager OF that magazine thought
when he foun,l thatEcherk to the order
of NJ. d. Harter coming back TO New
York from little country back in Mis-
souri,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19


Two upstate farmers, Jerry and Jake
had been enjoying brief holiday at
Now York, and during the trip they
had seen great many sights. Jerry
was rather a dominoering sort of a fel.
low, and, somewhat to bis companions
annoyance and humiliation, had taken
the lead all day. In fact, Jake had
been trailed about here, there. aud
everyN here, willy.nilly, without being
consulted, and he was just about sick OF
il all. At last it wasstinio to go home,
When they reached the station, Jake
marched upon ths platform and jumped
into ne rlt car he saw.
What b .ve you got in there for?"
demanded Jerry, as he came up.
ITO please myself" returned Jake,
sulkily.
"Well. get out. then; this isn't our
train, said Jerry.
- Cont care straw whose train it
ia, Jerry; IN going vita il, -"
Jake, don't be fool. This train
DOESN'T 90 our way. II goes TO chi
cano and that's where it will take you
il you don't get out. -
tell you don't care where it
takes me 10, Jerry. You have had your
avn way with me ali day, and I've
never gone anywhere where | wanted
10 go. su | don't cura il it taxes me to
san Francisco; I'm going to please
myself Just for once. "-Harper q Round
Table.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19
SOME s.Irnnr sAvDwion Es.

Cheese and celary-Whip a gill Of
thick. HNset cream, and add enough
sharp, freshly grated cheese TO mako a
still paste. Spread hrcRi with this,
and sprinkle thiGkly with very finely
minced white stalks Of celery
Sariine- Minue two hard boiled eggs
and handful of cre9a, aod mix with
two spnnnfuls of mayonnaise. Butter
thin slices of brown bread spread with
this miSturo, add 4 lRyar Of tiny ear-
and cut in squares.
Game These are delicious made with
either brown or white bread The game
should lie roasted or broled, to nave
the finest flavor, then shaved in the
thinnest possible Slices placer over the
prepared bread, seasoned Rad dotted
with bits Of currant Jelly.
Shad roe.Wash the roe and put in
a saucepan of sailed boiling water,
sufficient to cover. Boil very gently ~
minutes. Allow it to cool, then remove
tho outer skin, and mash fine with
fork Season well with salt cayenne
and dash of lemon Juice. Place
layer of it between two slices of but.
tered bread, and cut 10 any Enspn de.
sired.
Chicken and tomato--Tako firm, ripe
tomatoes, necl, and slice very thin with
a sharp knife. Have ready a teaCunful
GF finely minced breast of chicken,
minced with two large iablespoorfuls OF
mayonuaise dressing. Spread the bread
with butter cover with LAYER of the
chicken, add slice of tomato nicely
saasoned lay on tine corresponding slice
OF huttcrod bread, anu cut into narrow
strips.
Sweet bread Blanch, parboil and
sautn the sweat breads. Chop rather
! coarsely and season we'll Prepare tie
bread, put in layer Of she mince, cut
in rounds, on each one place very
thin slice Of lemon, without the rind,
and close. II lemon is mot liked, one
may substitute thin circular slice Of
grape or other tart jelly. This makes a
very delicate sandwich, -Guod House.
| lie epinG,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19

Wonderfully elaborate open.air fetcs,
often the scene Of some mummcry or
coup dc theatre celebrating scenes in
connection with vcnety, were frequent
occurrences. Thus Louis NV. more
than once held stag hunts at night;
and for that purpose the great forest
Of Cnantily waa illuminated with
torches, aud the hunted stag was forced
TO pass through avenues lined by sev.
eral thousand men holding brightly
hariug fiamheauX in their hands
Several Of the princesses Of his court
were daring riders and from tho letters
OF one OF these royal ladies', duchess
of Orleans, We learn that in four years
she was present at the death of over
1000 stays. Her descriptions Of the
sport are most enthusiastic. II have
had % falls. but have hurt myself only
once, she says in one Of her letters. -
Century.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19
4 HIGiLAxT q UaRD.
Called the Police TO Capture aIan in His
Own House.


own House.
"When the family next to us went away
for the summer | promised to keep an eye
on the place. II was arranged to have
man sleep in the house at night, but there
are lot of daylight robherieS. and as I'm
around home pretty much all of the time
! was to prevent them.
THE other afternoon" continued the
speaker according to the Detroit Free Press.
II noticed one OF the windows up. While
was skulking around trying to see without
being seen heard what seemed n muilied
noise of hammering. by climbing To my
own roof and hiding behind chimney
could see through some of the upper win
duws, and finally discovered that there was
u man moving about upstairs II didn't
take me more than second to decide that
the plumbing was being cut out. chased
around the neighberhood in vain search for
man, and not feeling just like capturing
robber without any assistance tclephoned
police headquarters.
IN very brief time the wagon came up
with rush and the policemen were
promptly deployed, so as to prevent an
escape. With the house thus surrounded two
otthe bluecoats began crawling through the
open windows
".What III the thunder are you doing
there " came voice from the head of the
stairs. Get out of that, or I'll shoot
But in they went, and CALAMITY brought
up the rear with revolver that hadn't been
fired in 20 years. Down the stairs, four or
five steps at time, came the owner. who
had just taken a run into the city for a day.
Everybody seemed 10 think the laugh was
ON me, but all ! did was TO resign my Gus
tOdianslip,h
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19
WHES MOTHER LooEs.


| member such a lot of things
That happened long ago,
When me an Jim was six years old
An now we're ten or so.
But those that remember best
The ones | most can Sec
Are the things that used to happen
When mother looked at me.
One time in church, when me an Jim
Was snickerin' out loud
The minister was prayin', an
The peoples heads was bowed
We had the biggest kind of joke
About bumblebee.
But things got quiet rather quick
When mother looked at me.
And then there's some times when l think
I've had such lots of fun
A-goin' in swimmin' with the boys
Down there by Jones run,
But when get back home again.
Just bout in time for tea
There's kind of n differ mt feeling comes
When mother looks at me.
That time when was awful sick
An the doctor shook his head,
An ev'ry time pa come around
His eyes was wet an red,
member her hands on my face
How soft they used TO be-
Somehow the pain seemed easier
When mother looked at me.
It's funny how 1t makes you feel
| amt afraid of her,
She's bout the incest person
You'd find most anywhere;
But the queerest sort of feeling,
As queer as queer can be,
Makes everything seem different
When mother looks at me.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19

John Muir, the disroveror OF the great
Muir glacier, writes of 1.-THE Alaska
Trip in the Century. Mr.. Muir Gays
OF the glacier that beurs his name:
The number of bergs given off varies
somewhat with the weather and the
tides. For II consecutive hours
counted the number discharged that
were large enough to make themselves
heard like thunder at a distance OF
mile or two and found the average rate
10 be one in five or six minutes. The
thunder of the largest may be heard
under favorable circumstances 10 miles
or more. When large macs sinks from
the upper iissured portion of the wall;
there is first a keen, piercing crash,
then desp, deliberate, long drawn out,
laundering roar. which slowly subsidies
into comparatively low, far-reachine,
muttering gruwl; then comes a crowd of
grating, clashing sounds from the agi
tated bergs that dance in the waves
about the newcomer as il in welcome.
and these, again, are followed by the
swash and roar Of the berg waves as
they reach the shore and break among
the houlders. But the largest and most
beautiful OF the hergs, instead OF fall
ing from the exposed weathered portion
OF the wall, riss from the submerged
portion with still grander commutIon,
heavinR alott to nearly to ths top Of the
wall with awful roaring tons OF water
streaming like hair down their sides,
while they heave and plunge again aud
again before they settle in poise and
sail away as blue crystal islands, free
at last after being held fast as part
of slow crawling glacier for centuries.
And how wonderful it seems that ice
formed from pressed Huow IN the noun
tains two or three hundred years ago
should, after all its toll and travel in
grinding down aud fashioning the face
of the landscape. still remain pure and
fresh and lovely in color! When the
sunshine is pouring and sitting in iris
colors through the midst of all this
wilderness of angular crystal ice, and
through the grand, fame shaped Jets
and sheets OF radiant spray ever rising
from the blows Of the falling hergs,
the effect is indesGribably glorious
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19
@. A. n. ENcAMpx FSr.
Officisl Order Issued by Department Com
mander Joseph 4. Bradley.


mander Joseph $. Bradley.
Joseph s. Bradley, commander OF
the Department of Delaware, G. A. r.,
has issued the following order concern
lug the national encampment to be held
in Buffalo, N. y, the latter part of
the month:
As you are awars the 3lst National
Eucampment will be held at Buffalo,
N. y. during the week beginning
August sd inst. An elaborate pro-
gramme has been arranged by the G.
a. Il. and citizens committees, to ill
in every hour with sight. seeing and
pleasure. Those who attend will he
entertained royalty. 1t is desired that
every comrade who can, will go and
make this encampmeut what it ia in
tended, the most memorable OF uny yet
held. Delaware has always held a
proud place in line of parable and in the
encampment. We don't want to retro
grade in this particular, hence every
one that can ought to attend. Rates
have been established at 50 80 from
Wilmington, oue fare for the round
trip. This department win leave this
| city Sunday morning, August 22Cl, 1897,
| at 0. 80 O'Clock, over the b. & q. rail
road, at Delaware avenue station.
Through the kindness of Mr.. Miller,
passenger agent, one or more first.class
passenger coaches, will he 10 waiting
for us and be attached to the train
carrying the Maryland g. A. r. A
straight run to Buffalo without change
of cars will be made over the beautiful
Lehigh Valley railroad. Headquarters
cannot be established until We reach
Buffalo and will be made public at that
time. -
Adiutant- General Peter b. Ayarl
states that any citizens desiring TO ac
company the party and avail them
selves of the rates can do so by making
application TO him.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19
"rHE LITTLE GInL AND ME.v


When all of childhood was a song
And all of life was May.
When all of sorrow and of wrong
Was sunk in yesterday.
We walked together hand in hand,
True comrades, and she.
Oh, life was set in summer for
The little girl and me
Then came time when sky and air
With snow were all astir.
She went away-so far. so far
| could not follow her,
And somehow all the woods and fields
AS wide as | could see
Went grieving Tor the little girl
And had no smile for me.
Long years have come and gone since then
And time has touched my hair,
But am just as young as when
Those fields were fresh and fair.
And often as watch the sun
Kiss field and hill and tree
1t seems to shine again upon
The little girl and me.
One day when SHOWS no more fall cold
Nor autumns shadows chill.
Where leaves hang always red and gold
And silver runs each rill.
I'll 20 myself to look for her.
And there. somewhere, maybe
There may lie other Fairgrounds for
The little girl and me.
New York press
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19

Chairman Mott of the 4. A. W.
racing board has granted sanction 10
Secretary A. n. Brown of the Dover
State Fair for bicycle races at the fair
grounds on Thursday, September 10th.
b. Frank Mcdaniel will manage the
meet. He expects to have three events,
namely, a e-mile handicap, FIVE
mile handicap, and one half mile
race for the State championship. Prizes
aggregatiug 5000 in value are TO be
offered. The entry blanks will be out
shortly. 1t is possible that some local
races may be arranged for Wednesday,
September 10th.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19

Special Correspondence OF Gazette and journal
New Castle, August. j.. The barge
Marie. owned by the New York Is Boston
Steamboat Co., while being towed to
sea yesterday afternoon by the large tug
r. d. Little, collided Mt Dan Baker
Shosl with the Morris e Cummings
dredge No. II, cutting q hoe IN the
latter's house, breaking the stanchions
and destroying large quantity of haw-
ser. Steward Cushman. who was on
the dredge. was knocked down and
bruised by hawser, and Inspector
Bond also Yves knocked down and
slightly injured The Maria also
struck scow, cutting holo in the lat
ter, aud the Marie's stem was badly
damaged. The dredge's damages are
estimated at 5000. Thoss aboard the
tug ard barge did not attempt to ascer.
tain the result of the collision.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19
D4D'S 0LD nREKCnEs.

When dad has worn his trousers out,
They pass to brother John;
Then mother trims them round about,
And William puts them OFT
When Williams legs too long have grown,
The trousers fail to hide en-;
SO Walter claims them for his own
And slows himself inside EN-.
Next Sans fat legs they close invest,
And, when they wont stretch tighter,
They're turned aud shortened, washed and
pressed.
And fixed on me-the writer. ..
Ma works them into rugs and cans
When / have burst the Stitches
At Doomsday we shall see perhaps)
The last of dads old breeches.
New York Weekly,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19
TIE DREAn OE nEhrH.
Dwight l.. Moody's Boyish horror of the
Grim DestrnYer.

DWIGHT lie mnouys boyish horror oil the
Grim Destroyer.
"What most concerns uc, writes Evan
gelist Moody in The Ladies' Home journal,
lis the relation which Christ's Resurrection
has to our death and future life. So many
people live in fearful dread of death and
the grave, ! believe. Just because they do
not study this doctrine. They speak of
death and the judgment with a shudder,
and their vision seems To be unable to pierce
beyond. ] well remember how in my
native village in New England it used 10 be
customary, as n funeral procession left the
church, for the bell in the hurying ground
to toll as many times as the deceased was
years old. iiow anxously / would count
those strokes of the bell to see how long I
might reckon on living. Sometimes there
would be 10 or 50 tolls, and | would give
a sigh OF relief to think ! had so many
years to live But at other times there
would be only few years tolled, and then
q horror would seize me as thought that ],
too, might soon be claimed as victim hy
that dread monster, Death. Death and
Judgment were a constant source Of fear
to me till | realized the fact that neither
shall ever have any hold on n child of
God. In his letter to the Romans the
Apostle Paul has showed. in most direct
language, that there is 20 condemnation for
child of God but he is passed from under
the power Of law, and in the Epistle to the
Corinthians he tells us there is n natural
body, and there is a spiritual body, and as
we have borne the image Of the earthly, we
shall also bear the image of the Heavenly
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19

Special Correspondence of Gazette and Journal
Georgetown. Aug. II. THE Town
Council has decided to secure the SER
vices of competent engineer TO ascer-
tain the cost of complete sewerage
system for the town. Georgetown is
located in a sort of basin, and there is
not sufficient fall in any direction to
cause the water to flow off naturally,
and as consequence for several day 8
after heavy rainfall the town, espe-
cially the lower portions, is flooded.
At such times the people raise a howl
of protest at the incompetence or me-
glect of the Town Council, and the
Council now proposes giving matters a
different turn. 1t would cost thou
sands of dollars to inaugurate satis-
factory sewerage system here, but the
Council intends to give the people an
opportunity to have it il they want TO
pay the hill 1t is hardly likely that
they will take advantage Of the oppor-
tunity,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19
LIrrLE NIaHrWANDgRER.
Waterman Collins Finds u child Walking
Towards the Branhywine.

John +. Lynn, who resides at No.
1921 East Eleventh street, was aroused
about / O'Clock Thursday morning by a
knocking at the door. Upon looking
out the window he saw Night Watch
man Daniel Collins of the Delaware
Terra Gotta Co. S works with child
in mis- arms. The watchman had found
the youngster, in its night clothes,
walking down the middle of Head
street towards the Brandywine, and he
had called up Mr.. Lynn TO sue il he
knew whose child it was.
While this parley was going on Alfred
Kristenson. who keeps grocery store
at Eleventh and Head streets, opposi to
I,ynp'5 residence, came upon the scene
and at once clainlsd the child A few
minutes before that Mrs, Kristsnson
had missed the child from it's bed and
they had heard the knocking at Lynn q.
The child, girl about years OF
age, had gotten up, presumably while
asleep, and had unlocked the door and
gone out into the street. She was about
300 feet from home when found by the
watchman.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19
NATURES WAYS.


The snowdrop is fairy flower
That opens with the spring;
OF loving natures vernal hour
The pllrcst sweetest thing.
And while rude March his vigil keeps,
Nor warns the torpid blood
The first fral lambkin comes and sleeps
Beside the opening bud.
How modest are the new. born pair,
White as the snowJiriCt nigh,
And both as innocent ~ fair.
All timid, need and shy.
And when the sGowdrop through the snow
Can lift its slender cup
The lamD is big enough To 60
And cut that snowdrop up.
It,d0a
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19

Bridge7ille, Aug. l1.-There was a
shower of frogs here last night. 1t was
raining hard when some one noticed a
number of frogs on the ground. They
continued TO increase, and it was dis.
covered that they were coming down
with the rain. For more than 10 min
utes the frogs continued to fall They
we're OF all sizes and colors. After
striking the ground they would be
dazed for little while, and then they
would jump about in lively fashion.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19

Cumberland, Nd, Aug. II. The
Rev. Sam Small and John G. Wooley,
the anti.license orator, will attend an
interstate conferences of Christian and
temperance workers of Maryland, Vir-
ginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania
which will begin ut Allegheny Grove,
liver five lectures. Miss Frances S,
Willard will attend
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19

On account of the recent rainy
weather the launch of the Merchants
aud Miners Transportation Co. IS new
steamship Juniata. now in course of
construction at the shipyard of the Har-
Ian 81 Hollingsworth Co., will not take
place on August 2Sth, as has been an.
nounced, but will rake place about a
week later,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19

James Scott, colored, the driver Of the
coal wagon which was struck by a
street car at Fourth and Tatnall streets
yesterday week, was arraigned in the
city court on Thursday on the charge
OF reckless driving. Assistant City So
licitur Cahoon said he did not see how
Scott could be prosecuted, however. as
the ordinance referred only to immoder-
ate speed, while he was not driving
rapidly, and on Mr.. Cahoun's recon-
mendation the case was dismissed.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-19
TO RACE H4zEL DELL.
The wawaset Associations Meet to
Held There.

Held There.
The Wawaset Trotting Association
has completed arrangements whereby it
will hold its races at Hazel Deli Track
instead Of Wawaset track, on August
25th and Goth. Access by trolley to the
former place is batter. The Whining
ton * New Castle trolley line will run
special cars there.
The association has succeeded in So
curing special rates on the railroads.
The First Regiment Band has been So
cured to discourse music at the track.
The large and comfortable grand stand
will be appreciated by the people. This
is where the Wawas3t track is lacking
and for that reason as much as any
other were the races transferred.