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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-07-21
will Redeem the Swamp Land.

The swamp land commission of
Southeast Missouri is bard at work
completing its recommendation re-
garding the best methods to pursue in
reclaiming the swamp lands in this
section Of the state. ID. J.. Russell, of
New Madrid, is chairman of the COM
mission. and he has succeeded in en-
listing powerful influence throughout
the state in behalf Of move to reclaim
vast domain that is now practically
useless.
Mr. Russel's views in regard to the
system of drainage embrace system
Of canals, aud the application of a
dredgc to the sluggish streams. Since
the publication Of Mr.. Russelrs 5 plan
the commission has been very active
and some valuable information has
been gathered. In II counties there
are within fraction of 2.O00.0O0 acres
Of land that is unit for cultivation on
account Of its swampy condition. This
land is distributed in the II counties
as follows:
Roilinger. 3J.6l0: Butler. 236, ,J20:
Care Girardeau. 81 .4G9: Dunklin, 249,-
32S: 32;S: Mississippi, 1,o,1Ss: New Madrid,
294 ,36I; Pemiscot. 1876. .S32: Ripley. p, =
'i51: Scott. ll3,35s: Stoddard, 36l .33s ::
Wayne. II, ,+2o.
The clref difficulty il the way of
reclaiming the land is lack of means.
The people in that section OF the State
have been taxed for levce and drainage
purposes about all they can pay. ard
the big undertaking now under con-
>ideralion is more than they can stand
All that can be accomplished at the
present time is to make all plans and
put them in tangible shape for the
legislature. This is just what the com
mission is doing these hot days.
1t is altogether likely that he state
will be asked to transfer 800 idle con-
vict> from the penitentiary into South
east Missouri and put them at work
reclaiming the swamp lands. There is
d large number of idle cOnvicts now in
the penItentiaIy. who are an expense
to the taxpayers Of the state and no
profit whatever. Those who favor this
plan do not propose to have the state
bear The expense of feeding, clothing.
doctoriug and guarding the convictS.
but provide d small annual tax on each
acre Of tie land reclaimed until such
t imc as the state has been fully r1inI-
bur,cd for all Outlays
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-07-21

THE miners strike is spreading,
and so far the strikers have COM
mitted no overt act: but then the
mine operators have not attempted
to run the mines with new men.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-07-21

IT is reported that Spain and
Japan have entered into an often
sivc alliance against the United
States. They had better beware
lest they become too much so, or
Uncle Sam might take ii upon him
self to spank them both.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-07-21

a MAN was arrested in q western
city Il few days ago who had made
a VOW forty years ago never to
work, and says he has succeeded in
keeping it. He must have been
the advance agent of the modern
socialists.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-07-21

In the Klondykc gold fields of
Alaska laborers are commanding
fifteen dollars per day. Here is a
chance for the grand army of I'M
employed.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-07-21
$1.OO Per Annum.
The prosperity items are keeping
ahead of the calamity howls in spite
of The exertions of the latter.

GLOWING stories of wealth pick
ed up in Alaska are filling the daily
papers at present, but the hard
luck tales will come later.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-07-21

That the tariff bill is being con-
demned by the Democrats is a good
reason to believe it will be salts
factory to the people as law.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1897-07-21

STATE OF Missouri, g
County Of Washington.
In tie Circuit Court Of Washington
County. to August term. 1897.
RACHEL BRYAN. plaintiff,
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
Wednesday Morning,
AT 8 O'CLOCK.

$500 yards Prints, Percales
and Satines, worth 6, s and
I2%c., for sc. yard
1900 yards Outing Flannels,
dark and light shades, good
for Ioc ; we are selling them at
&c. yard.
I,zoo yards Silver Damask,
worth Csc, for soc. a yard.
100 Stand Covers, only one
size Irish Point, worth 81
for soc. each
I25 Cotton Comfortables,
at 81 and $I.25; well made /;
excellent goods for the money.
Is fine Down Comfortables,
at 81 so each.
We have little lot of those
magnificent Blankets left; only
20 pairs So SO instead of S.
the pair.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
CONTEMPORARY OPINION
CoALING A BIG STEAMSHIP.

All the ships of the transatlantic lines
are coaled by practically the same
crude method. Barges Of about $50
tons capacity are brought alongside of
the ship, boOms are rugged, and. by
tackle controlled by a donkey engine
steel buckets are lowered to the barge
filed by four men. and hoisted to a
projecting platform, where two men
dump The bucket and shovel the coal
into the pOrt-hole. Tt is then taken by
other men and slowed away in the
ships bunkers. Five and a half of these
bucket loads equal a ton and tally by
court OF the buckets is the only record
to show how much has been taken
aboard
In coaling the steamship st. Paul
forty-eight men are employed inside the
ship The average amount of coal bun
kered is 5000 tons; the time required
to unload and stow is about forty
hours, and the total average cost of the
work is $1,000. Efforts to reduce this
expense have been productive of many
ingenious mechanical devices, and the
inquiry is often raised, why are not
these used generally? In a modern
ship fuel must be stored wherever room
can be found that is not required or
available for other purposes. Coal can
not be received on board faster than it
1t can be stored away in the bunkers
which, in the case of a modern liner, is
at the rate OF about one and one-half
tons per man per hour, so that devices
to deliver it at a rate of from so to 500
tons per hour are useless. More primi-
tive methods prevail in ports of less i'm
portance than those at either end of the
Atlantic lines. In the West Indies
coaling is almost exclusively done by
negro women, who pour in a ceaseless
stream over the gang planks, each car
rying about 100 pounds of coal in a
basket poised on her head. In Mediter-
ranean ports the work is done in asimi-
lar and primitive manner, but by men.
-Cassier's Magazine.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
BASEBALL IN RnSrnN

The popularity of baseball is firmly
established and if the game is rightly
directed this popularity is likely to in
crease. II is the most dramatic of all
sports; the most varied, the most in
teresting, and often the most surpris-
ing in its features. Individual skill
among the players does much to en-
liven it, and is a peculiarly fascinating
feature to the spectator; but even a
considerable combination of individual
skill does not always win success. The
remarkable variety In the game is that
accident may at any moment defeat Il,
and reverse the whole tendency of af-
fairs
This is more seldom the case with a
well-disciplined and directed club, how
ever. In the end the lab.er succeeds
and sometimes it Overcomes greater
aggregation of individual talent than il
has in itself. The Boston Club had
both these qualities; yet Il failed al
first At one time it had the last place
in the list Of victories won It went
from there to the head, and attained
the latter place finally under dramatic
conditions which are fresh in mind. II
did this because il played steadily and
as one thoroughly organized body act.
ing together TO the best advantage in
all its parts
Tho Philadelphia Club. one of TIT
most brilliant set Of players eve
brought together began in the lead, bu
ended almost the last Of all, because i
had not these qualities OF sturdines
and steadiness and the capacity to ac
as a unit. Talent is much CT II waste,
without them The Baltimores ha'
\ these qualities equally with the Bos
tons in everything save a certaii
strength OF self-respecting character Il
which the Boston payers were super
| ior. That told in the end, and ther
was in it another tribute to the Bos
toms New England environment
Il has been an suspicious basehal sen
son. The next season may be made stil
mere so. il the lessons now taught o
what is to be Initiated and what is q
be Stunned are heeded.-Boston Her
aid.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

A famine is not always a sign that
people are starving. Look at the
freight-car famine, for instance.-RO-
chester Democrat.
The present relations of Canada and
England have a remarkable resem-
blance to a sytem Of protection for two
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Japan has a new battleship which is
said to be the fastest one that floats
She Is now in a position to run away
from all her enemies.-Chicago Trl-
bune.
That eminent sporting editor, John j.
Ingalls,. has been engaged to report
each round OF Congress next Winter for
press syndicate.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
General Blanco Is described as "the
softest-hearted Spaniard living" But
that he might be and still wear no
sponge in his BOSOM Florida Times
Union.
Twelve million silk hate are made
annually in Great Britain, but they
have a queer way of smashing them
over there whenever they get merry
Richmond Times
Debs asserts that the Republican
party is the only enemy Of Socialism.
This is pretty rough On the other Or
ganizations, but it is high praise for
the Republican party.-New York Mail
and Express.
The Japs are calling us a nation OF
dogs" This display CT temper is un-
necessarily undignified and altogether
futile. We don't care bow-wow what
little Japan calls us.-St Paul Pioneer
Press.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26

there to Philadelphia to witness the G
o'clock wedding of Miss e. B. Develin
and Harry Pratt
Mrs. Harry Saring has been visiting
IN Washington.
George A. Elliott is in Thurlow, Pa,
to-day.
Mrs. G. Neary Callahan, Of Wilkes
barre Pa, after a weeks sojourn with
Philadelphia friends, is visiting her
son, Rev. Miles ]. McManus. at Galena,
Md Father McManus was recently of
this city.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Gawthrop and
Mrs. Thomas McCloskey spent Sunday
with friends in Washington, c.
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Mahoney have
returned from their wedding trip, which
they spent in Washington.
Miss Anna Long spent to-day in Phil
adelphia.
Miss Sue Crumbaugh has returned
from West Chester, where she has been
visiting.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
osTrNsETo COX's MONUMENT.


Sailors the world over revere the
name OF Sunset" 'Cox. of New York. 1t
was he who brought the American life
saving service up to its present stand
arl Of sufficiency and efficiency, and he
did more to procure from the Federal
Government adequate compensation
and regulation for the life guards than
any public man our country ever pro-
duced.
That the reader may more fully APP
preciate his great work we give the fol-
lowing figures from the annual report
of General Superintendent Kimball, Of
the Life Saving Service:
The number OF disasters within the
scope of the service during the year
was 500, being considerably greater
than for any preceding year. The num-
bers of vessels totally lost however
was only SO, against 81 in 1896 and l3
in 1895.
OF the total number of disasters 394
occurred to documented vessels and 800
to small, undocumented cratt-sali-
boats, rowboats. etc. On board the
documented vessels were 3,739 persons
of whom 3,697 were saved and AZ lost.
On board the undocumented vessels
there were 706 persons, of whom 6So
were saved.
The estimated value Of the document
ed vessels involved was IS, 1872, ,4S5, that
OF their cargoes $1,975, $40. of which
s5.1Os. .S95 was saved and $1,99S,93O lost
The estimated value or property in
yolyed in the disasters to the undocu-
mented craft was $221,7 ,745, Of which
amount s1S2,2SO was saved. In addi-
tion 10 the number OF persons saYeo
from vessels, "a others were rescued
from the. PERIL of drowning under vari-
Gus circumstances.
The Hfe-saving crews saved ana as
sisted TO save during the year All YES
sells valued. with their cargoes, at 20,
015 Gao OF these vessels they saved
without assistance, 32l, valued, VIII
their cargoes, at 1891 ,355, with loss OF
damage of only 81 ,105. In the remaining
15O instances they united with othel
agencies. wrecking vessels, tugs, reVe-
nue. cutters. etc, in saving properly
valued at s1.9A, AIS. out OF properly
imnerilled of an estimated value OF Sz''
O33, ,685. 90.
The crews also rendered minor as
sistance to 4O1 vessels in distress, De-
sides warning from danger 22s vessels
The total net expenditure for the MAIN
tenance of the service during the year
was 81 .473 ,94S. ,.,,.,
At the close of the year the estaDilsh-
ment comprised 259 stations, OF when
1s9 are located on the Atlantic and Gun
coasts. 95 on the coasts of the Grvu'
! axes ID on the Pacific coast, ana ohe
at the Falls of Ohio. Louisville hy-
The Hfe-saving service Of our country
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
CALIFORNIA; DUAL POSITION.

California occupies a strange position
on the principles involved in the mat
ter Of protection and free trade. When
It comes to disposing OF her own pro-
ducts in other states and countries she
wants free trade, but when other states
and countries go to her to dispose Of
their products they find that they have
to meet protection in its most rampant
form. An article in the Los Angeles
Express states that in advertising for
supplies for a hospital in Riverside
county the board OF supervisors at a
meeting unwittingly advertised for bids
for such supplies by designating par
ticular brands OF baking powder, wash
ing soap, coffee and crackers" and the
district attorney having called atten-
tion to the matter, the board "rescinded
the advertisement, in compliance with
the law, and issued a new specification
which will give the home products the
preference In the premises" The same
paper adds that the terms OF the section
are such that wherever the home pro-
duced article can meet the requirement
of any institution in this state as to
price and quality Of supplies, then the
board of supervisors must contract for
such goods irrespective OF offers made
by producers outside of California"
This is protection with vengeance.
1t is bad enough for the United States
to deprive It's citizens of the benefits
arising from healthful competition in
the worlds markets, but when this OBJ
noxious principle is carried into effect
by one of the states OF this Union
against the rost OF the sisterhood, it
becomes truly shocking 1t is equiva-
lent to commercial war against every
other state, and whelly unconstltution-
al. Were the other states to retaliate
in like manner California would soon
be groveling on her knees, with her
fruit and other products rotting around
her. But there is an easier way TO
bring this state to It's senses. Her pro-
tective laws being unconstitutional, the
fact should be officially proclaimed by
the Federal Government, that Congress
has absolute power to regulate COM
merce among the several states. The
General Assembly OF California has
usurped powers and functions which
are essentially Congressional, and
which cannot stand the test Of Federal
inquiry.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
ONE OF THE GREAT AND GOOD
BOOKS OF THE CENTURY.


We must not be too hasty in reaching
conclusions as to the foolishness of
that committee of the Beard of Educa-
tion of Philadelphia which has decided
that LES Miserables" is not a proper
book to use as a textbook for the girls
of the High School. While Les M.ser-
ables" is one of the great and good
books of the century, there is room for
differences of opinion as to whether it
is adapted, as a whole, to the uses of
schoolgirls. "A number Of accomplish
ed educators think that it is not, and
others equally accomplished take no eX-
ceptiOn to it. Discreet women, who
manage young women's boarding
schools, have welcomed the whole of it
into their household, and readers gem
orally delight in 1t because it is such a
great story and of so admirable a power
to cure the ailments of the soul If a
newspaper discussion of its proprieties
results in carrying it to new readers,
that Will be a considerable good, and
certainly those Philadelphia girls who
don't read it in school must be sure to
read it out of school, fer it is one of
The books that persons who have souls
ought not to miss. One Of the delight
fulfill experiences Of life is to read
LES Miserables" for the first time
Where is there another single book of
equal power to make bad people long to
be good, to make weak people long to
be strong. and to awaken in strictly
good people realization CT charity? 1t
is doubtful If the American Tract So
ciety has in its whole list so far-reach-
ing and strenuous a Christian document
as LES Miserab.es. ."-Harper's Weekly
The merchants who do the business
are the merchants who do the advertis-
ing.-Omaha Bee.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
MAYNARD WIVES HOME AGAIN.

1t is said that the two women who
fed from home recently to pose in a
burlesque company and do the split act,
have returned home. One Of them, on
hearing that their escapade had been
published. Immediately left for Strick-
ersville, Pa. Her husband went up
there yesterday to induce her to come
home. In the other home a reconcilia-
tion has been brought about.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
CrOsby&Hill

We have secured one of the
best lots OF Dark Prints, Per
Gales and Satines that we have
ever offered---suitable for wrap
pers and quilts. All odd lots,
all perfect and the best cloth
manufactuled-some of them
27 inches and some of them
ward wide for
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
A MURDERous AssAULT.

Stevenson Cooling, foreman at the
Cooling carriage factory. committed a
murderous assault with a wrench on his
uncle, Serverson Cooling, yesterday af-
ternoon at the works. The mans head
was badly cut and it required eight
stitches to close the wound.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
is living monument to the memory of
"Sunset" Cox

An exchange says that this city needs
a modern hotel. If the patronage Of
some of the hotels we now have were
sufficient they would soon be made
modern. The fact Of the matter is that
Wilmington is not noted as a particu-
larly good hotel town. It is made up
very largely Of homes, Doarding-houses,
lodging houses and lunch counters.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26

We have received a copy of the initial
edition of the Wilmington Sun, our new
morning contemporary. It is a bright
little paper and will doubtless improve
with age. There is in a city of this size
which supports four afternoon papers
ample opportunity for a wide-awake
morning paper to be run successfully
and profitably. We wish the Sun a
most prosperous career.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
FALL AND wINTER UNpERWEAR

All new goods of this season, COM
prising the largest stock and best as
sortment in the city at the lowest
prices, at Ross, 21O Market street. All
the fashionable styles Derby Hats for
Fall and Winter. The best 81 Hat in
Wilmington. Agents for Domestic
Sewing Machine.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
RYAN TO FACE A JURY.

Francis II. Ryan, colored, who was
arrested in Chester on the charge of
bigamy, preferred by Sadie Ryan, was
before Magistrate Daley this morning
and waived hearing for the Court of
General Sessions. Bail was fixed at
$500.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
ITCHING

BLEEDING PILES, ITCHING
PIIlES.-Dr. Agnew's Ointment cures
Piles in all its forms-ltching. Bleed
ing and Blind. One application gives
quick relief; three nights VIII cure
most cases; six nights will cure most
stubborn cases. The best and surest
cure for my and all skin cruptions. 80
cents -35. Sold by Miller Drug Com
peny. 402 Market street n H. Dan
forth. Market and Second streets.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
HURTT- HALL WEDDING.
Brilliant Noontide Nuptials
Celebrated in Smyrna.
WILMINGTON WEDDING GUESTS
ENJOYABLE BIRTHDAY RECEP-
TIoN ON THEwEsT s1DE-oTHER
SOCIAL TOPICS OF MORE OR LESS
INTEREST.

All communications intended for inser
tion In this column should be addressed TO
Society Editor, care of the Evening Jour
nal. Communications should be written
on one Side of the paper only.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
CONSUL MACALLISTER'S DEPART
TIRE

General Samuel A. Macallister and
wife and daughters, Misses Mary Isa-
belle and Jean l.. Macallister win sail
for Barbados on the steamer Caribee at
noon on Saturday. They will leave
Wilmington at $50 a. m. on that day.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
Great Chances

in the Dress Goods Depart
ment; wonderful values (;
amongst them those All-wool
French Henriettas. at 25c. a
yard instead of 37Hc.-all the
leading colors-a great bar
gain.
Splendid values in Black
Dress Goods, Silks and Vel
vets.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
STRIPES OF HONOR,

LETTER CARRIERS TO WEAR
MARKS FOR SERVICE IN THE
POST OFFICE WORK.
Postmaster Moore this morning re-
ceived a notice from Assistant Posi-
master-General Heath saying that all
letter-carriers in the free delivery SER
vice having served ten years as car
rior shall wear two black stripes on
his coat sleeves as mark Of honor.
All Of the carriers having served five
years are to wear one stripe on their
sleeves, and substitute carriers are to
wear the letter "S." on their coat
sleeves above the cuffs.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26

THROWN FROM HIS CARRIAGE.
DIR. J. w. Crumbaugh drove to West
Chester yesterday. While on his way
home he was thrown from his carriage,
but not seriously hurt.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
CARS IN BALTIMORE


Job II. Jackson has gone to Balti-
more on a business trip. The Jackson
and Sharp Company has recently put
some fine new street cars on the Cal
vert street trolley line and these have
made a most favorable impression in
the Monumental City for the Whining
ton concern
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
Kennard & Co.,
621-623 Market St.

Our assortment of Ladies and Misses Cloth and Fur
Garments complete than Every gar
ent new this season made of the very best materials finish
best possible and in every prices low
taking real value into consideration.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
HANscoM's.

We claim no house anywhere Of
fers you equal advantages with us.
First Of all, is the cornerstone of
quality-our goods represent the
best that's grown or prepared. Our
prices are beyond question the low
est in the city. Service, attention,
everything to insure satisfaction.
Water does not run up hill Of its
own voliton. The phenomenal
growth of our business is the reap
ing that proves the correctness Of
our business methods. -
Evening journal., 1897-10-26

If worst comes to bad Andree. can eat
his balloon and return home as an ami
mated flying machine.-Detroit Jour
nal. a.atxl
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
DoUGHERTY DECISION EXPECTED

Chancellor Nicholson will sit here on
Monday. 1t is expected that he will at
that time render a decision in the case
of the Levy Court VS.. John J. Dough-
erty and his sureties.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
DANCE IN GERMAN CIRCLES.

Some of the most prominent Germans
in the city were present at the dance
given in German Hall last night by the
Ladies Society of the Delaware Saen-
gerbund, for the benefit OF the Saenger-
bund and the German library. A first
class orchestra furnished the music and
supper was served at midnight
The grand march was led by Mr. and
Mrs. Lange, followed by Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry J. Stoeckle and Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Blouth. About fifty couples were
in the march. The committee on ar
rangements was composed of Mrs.
Joseph Sell, president; Mrs. Charles
Yetter, secretary; Mrs. John Wagner,
treasurer; Mrs. Charles Mammele, Mrs.
Harry ]. Stoeckle, Mrs. Henry Blouth,
Miss Annie Elmer, Miss Alice Gerris,
Mrs. Fred Kleitz, Mrs. Hampel, Mrs.
Hentze, Mrs. Antoine Steinkie, Mrs.
Lange, Miss Katie Wagner Miss Carrie
Stoeckle, Mrs Deltze, Mrs. NUM-, Mrs.
Ludwig Melchoir and Mrs. Carl Baum.
Evening journal., 1897-10-26
DELAWARE MEN IN MARYLAND.

Senator II. r. Kenney speaks at Cen
treville, Md, this afternoon, and Con-
gresham L. l. Handy at Denton. 1t is
hardly likely that either will be abe to
be at the Bayard Legion this evening.