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Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1897-03-25
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A beautiful gloss linen, 66 in.
wide, at Soc, worth 75c.
Zephyr Ginghams at l21sc
Regular 25c. kind, beautiful
styles, lovely coloring and dainty
designs, our price is l2ac.
PercaIes at lOc.
100 pieces to select from-all
new and stylish designs for waist
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New SiIkaIines at PIC.
Handsome patterns and dainty
coloring.
Belts.
All kinds and all styles. We
have the popular harness buckle
belts, in variety of color and
prices.
Cycling Gloves at $I.00.
Perforated kid palms and
fingers, with Isle back to insure
comfort and coolness.
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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-03-04

London, Eng, March IA special
from Paris says that the Monastery Of
st. Bernard bas been partially de-
stroyed by avalanches. The left wing
was demolished. The monks had TO
tunnel through the snow in order to
make their exit. There was no loss of
life.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-03-04

The remains, OF Bolitba Law and his
wife lie side by side near Mill Creek
beach, about half mile from Phebus.
Va. The graves are sadly neglected and
attention to their condition has been
drawn by the Newport News Press.
Mr.. Law was native OF Delaware. He
became distinguished as an engineer
and was the friend and companion of
John @. Calhoun, and his colleague in
public life at Washington. Upon the
slab over Mr.. Laws grave is the fol-
lowing inscription: "Sacred to the
memory of Bolitha Law, born in Kent
County, Delaware; died November 10.
1928. aged AZ years. Forts Washington
and Monroe are monuments OF his
worth as an artist, he being the under
taker of both. This monument is erected
to perpetuate his worth as man, and
the feelings of an affectionate wife
and children" Mrs. Law, vino was
only 45 years old, lived less than
year after the death of her husband.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-03-04

Mrs. Nena Stoeker of Reading came
to Wilmington last Thursday to visit
relatives, and upon leaving the train
at the Wilmington & Northern depot
dropped her pocketboolS containing her
return ticket, 81. 80 in money and two
baggage checks. She discovered her
loss almost Immediately, but not he
fore another passenger on the train had
walked off with it. Monday morning
the pocketbook with contents complete,
except the money, was found in Dennis
Quilts rear yard at No. l0S Market
street, where the thief had evidently
thrown il. Mr. Quill notified the ". &
N. officials of the find and the wallet
was returned to its owner.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-03-04

According to the report, the COM
mittee has chopped off $500. 30. The
report was signed by Messrs. Hazel and
johnson. the other member of the COM
mittee, Mr.. Donaldson, being detained
at homo with the grip.
As soon as the report was read, MIR.
Johnson moved its adoption. Mr.. Demp-
sey moved that action he postponed one
week, and in support of his motion
stated that he did not think it would
be wise or eypedient to pass upon tho
report at once. 1t should remain for at
least week, in order tu give the
memhers an opportunity to scrutinize
ii. In his opinion it would be unjust TO
the State and the membsrs' con.
stituents to take hasty action. Time
should be given to analyze and discuss
the report.
The motion to lay the report over for
week was seconded by Mr.. Hazel,
who said there was no desire on the
part of the committee to have hasty
action taken. The motion was adopted
and the report will not be acted on
until next Monday.
1t came to the ears of the members
of the General Assembly yesterday
morning that Hon. William j. Bryan,
late candidate for president of the
United States, who had been invited
to make an address in Dover on taxa
tion and finances would be unable to
come but they charged their minds
when clerks Spicer OF the House and
Dohorty of the Senate received the
following telegram at 3. 10 O'Clock in
the afternoon:
Washington. d. c., March 1.--Clerks of
House and Senate. Dover Del. Invitation
accepted. Will arrive from Wilmington
about noon tomorrow and return about 8.
w. ]. Bryan.
Preparation was at onue made for
entertaining Mr.. Bryan during his
stay here.
The Senate passed the joint resolution
providing for committee to investigate
the State Insane Hospital and report
back to the Legislature. The reso-
luton provides for a committee Of one
from tho Senate and two from the
House to investigate the management
and Drs Ogle, Bishop and Pierce to
examine the patients for the purpose OF
ascertaining whether any are there
who should not be there. Senator
Hanby was named as the Senate men,
Der of the committee. The resolution
provides that each of the physicians
shall receive S15 per day and that they
shall not be engaged in the. work
more than 10 days. The members of
the committee are not to receive COM
pensation.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-03-04
BOARD OF TRADE.
Important Matters to Come sefore Its
Meeting Next Friday Night.

Meeting Next Friday Night.
The March meeting of the Board Of
Trade will be held tomorrow evening
instead of this evening. which is the
usual meeting night. on account OF
Thursday being Inauguration Day.
Some important matters are to be con-
sidered at the meeting. The board is
interested to know why Wilmington
cannot get the 5000, 600 which is avail
able for improvement to the Christiana
harbor.
A large attendance of members is
desired also because the new charter
of the board will be submitted for
their consideration before it Is sent to
the Legislature. A third matter is the
question of what is called the manu-
facturers' tax, and it is desired to
devise some means OF paying the State
tax without recurring a man to swear
how much business he does.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-03-04
stepped Into a Hole.

Mrs. Annie Mammele, wife of Fred
erick @. Manmele, stepped into a
hole in a pavement on West Eighth
near West street, on Saturday evening,
and was thrown to the pavement. sus-
tanning injuries to her face aud upper
pprts Of her body. Her knee cap was
also cut and her ankle injured. Mr..
Mammele was removed to her home, No.
l0o2 West Eighth street.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-03-04

Canea, Island of Crete, March L.
The Greek transport Mykale, after a
parley with the commander of the
British battleahip Barheur, has been
allowed to land the stores sent by the
RED Cross Society. but she has not
been allowed to land provisions.
There is great scarcity OF food in
many quarters, on, account of the
blockade maintained by the fleets Of
received applications for bread from 10
places.
The commission appointed to re-
organize the Euporean gendarmes held
a meeting, but was unable to act, as
no funds are available to pay the men.
The Montenegrin gendarmes refused to
serve ON promises of being paid for
their services in the future. Conse-
quently, it is considered probable chat
the Montenegrins will he disbanded.
London, Eng, March IA special
from Paris says that the Monastery Of
st. Bernard bas been partially de-
stroyed by avalanches. The left wing
was demolished. The monks had 10
tunnel through the snow in order to
make their exit. There was no loss of
life.
Madrid, Spain, March 1.-Cable dis
patches from Manila say that over
1000 insurgents were killed in the
recent battles fought with the govern
ment troops at Silang and Las Mara
mas.
Brussels, Belgium, March In. j.
DeBurlet, who year ago resigned the
Premiership of Belgium to becoms
Belgian Minister to Portugal, ia dead.
London, Eng. March Mrs. Ed
ward Terry, wife of the proprietor of
Terry's Theatre, is dead.
London, Eng, March 2.-In regard
to the reported Boston wool corner lead
ing London wool brokers ridicule the
idea that there is any possibility OF cor
nering wool. They say it would require
the, purchase of two clips to do so,
meaning the cornering of at least 8, 000,-
900 bales and the expenditure Of G1,-
600, 600. Az the situation is under
stood in London the Bostonians bought
at the last Eale 45, 1000, 600 bales of the
higher grease woods, aud thoy will
probably purchase as much more at
the next sale with the view of making
out OF their deal 81, 600, 600 under the
new tariff in which, however. the
London brokers believe they will be
disappointed. For the next wool gale
there are already 800. 900 bales offered.
and the number will probably reach
$50, 900 bales.
Canea, Island of Crete, March a.
The insurgents effected junction
with tile Greek Regulars before bonn
harding the block house at Stavaros on
Sunday. The Muasulmans of Canea
are SO incensed and excited at the danger
of their co-religiopists that the lives OF
Europeans are in danger. and the for
eigu consuates are threatened.
Paris. France, March "A dispatch
from Canea to the Eclair says it is re-
ported there that 1000 Mussulmans.
who were interned in the fortress near
that city. have all been massacred, and
that great apprehension is felt in regard
to the fate of COCO Mussulmans who
are besieged near Gambia.
Baku, Russian Transcaucasia. March
2.-Over 2, 200, 600 pools of naptha have
been destroyed by fire at Tagied, in
the naptha springs district.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-03-04

Adjutant- General Garrett ]. Hart has
isHued general order No. l, which
announces the appointment of the Gov
ernor's staff. All OF Gov. Watson's
staff have been reappointed, except
Col. Charles E. Triedler Of Dover,
who is succeeded by Charles B. Hous-
ton of Millsboro. The Office OF judge
adyocate.general has been left oren for
the present
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-03-04

Dover. March 2. AT yesterday morn
ing's session of the House OF Represen-
tatives Chairman johnson of the com.
mittes on accounts submitted the report
on tho claims in the Cheairs- Dickey
contest. Ths report recommended the
allowance OF claims as follows:
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-03-04

Canea, Island of Crete, March a.
The insurgents effected a junction
with the Greek Regulars before bonn
harding the block house at Stavaros on
Sunday. The Mussulmans of Canea
are SO incensed and excited at the danger
of their co-religiopists that the lives OF
Europeans are in danger. and the for
eigu consulates are threatened.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-03-04
NEWS FROM FOREIGN LANDS
Death of M. J. De Burlet, For-
mer Premier of Belgium.
A SCARCITY OF FOOD IN CANEA
The Red Cross Society Landing
Provisions. @

A Part of the Monastery of St. Bernard
Destroyed by Avalauches; Monks Com
PEELED to Tunnel Through Snow-Moro
Than Two Thousand Insurgents Killed.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-23

Mrs. Sarah Davidson, handsome and
only thirty-four years old, gives one
an entirely new notion of how grand
mother may look.
just week ago to-day the event
happened which gave her the right to
call herself a grandmother. Bay Bea-
trice Esther Britz opened her soft
brown eyes to this world last Monday
and behind her youthful grandmother
and her own dainty mamma, the latter
only twenty years old. Altogether,
the three generations of the gentler
sex have nothing to complain of on
the score of youth or good looks, and
a happy trio they make.
There is strong resemblance be-
tween Mrs Davidson and her grand
child, and the mamma says frankly,
81 always thought my mamma was
prettier than 1, and baby does look
just like her"
Mrs. Sarah Davidson, the very
youthful grandmother, lives in pretty
fiat at No. 351 East Seventy-second
street with her husband and four
children two boys and two girls. At
first glance one would hardly take her
to be over twenty-five, there is such
an air of cheerfulness and vitality and
magnetism about her.--New York
Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-23
Most Wonderful Temple.

The most wonderful temple in the
world is built on a rocking stone on the
summit of mountain in Northern In
dia. 1t is impossible to imagine a more
wonderful situation than that of this
temple. The rocking stone Is situated
on a mountain over twenty thousand
feet high. 1t weighs many thousands
of tons, but is balanced on so fine a
point that n comparatively light pres
sure is sufficient to make it sway.
Whether or not the great rock was
raised to its present position by human
hands is a mystery to scientific minds.
If 1t was, the labor was one to which
no modern engineering feat can be
compared. The Hindu priests teach
their followers that the rock was
placed in position by the help of the
gods. In this way they add considera-
bly, to the feeling of awe which they
desire to create. The worshippers at
this shrine must first make the ascent
of the mountain, matter of great diff
ficulty. Then they spend seven days of
preparation in temple built on the
solid mountain before they are permit
ted to make the final passage to the
mysterious rocking stone. To reach
the stone it is necessary to cross
bridge over great chasm. Nature and
man had combined to make this Hindu
shrine aweAnspiring to the devout. At
ter crossing the bridge the pilgrim
mounts a ladder, to which he clings in
terror for his life here and in the here
after. The temple on the rock is nee
essarily a small place. Three priests
officiate in it, The mysteries which
take place there no man is permitted to
reveal. Europeans have seen it from
distance
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-23
New Tunnel Completed.

The Improvement on the Pittsburg
Division of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. % miles west of Cumberland
at Falls Cut will be completed by De-
.cember LIST and trains will be run
ming over it within ten days thereaf-
ter. Falls Cut is cutting through d.
spur of the mountain and is about 60
feet in depth and has continually Civ
Ell trouble by rock sliding down on the
track. 1t has had to be braced with
heavy timber every few feet for it's en-
time length, some 300 feet, and requir-
ing constant care and watchfuness.
was, therefore, very expensive TO keep
up.
In order to eliminate this cut it was
necessary to build one mile of new
roadway which involved the coustruc-
tion of double track tunnel $50 feet
in length and three bridges.
BY this change the road was
Strengthened considerably taking out
some sharp curvature and introducing
curves of longer radii. The improve
ment is on what is known as the cast
ern slope of the Allcghenies and the
grade is about 81 feet to the mile. The
tunnel and bridges We're constructed
with the view of double tracking the
entire Pittsburg Division sometime in
the future.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-23
A Practical Test.

Dom Pedro, the last emperor of Bra
Eil, was man of a practical turn of
mind, as the following story told of him
well illustrates, says Harper's Round
Table.
He once gave an audience to young
engineer who came to show him a new
appliance for stopping railway engines.
The emperor was pleased with the
Idea, but wished to put 1t to practical
test.
Day after tomorrow said he,
have your engine ready. We will
have 1t coupled to my saloon-carriag
and start. When going at full speed |
will give the signal to stop and then we
will see how your invention works.
AT the appointed time all was in read.
iness. The emperor entered his car.
rtage, the young inventor mounted his
engine and on they sped for several
nfses as fast as they could go. There
came no signal, and the engineer be.
gan to fear that the emperor had fallen
asleep. Suddenly the engineer came to
a sharp curve around the edge Of the
diff, when, to his horror, ON the track
directly ahead Of them the engineer
saw n huge bowlder
He had just sufficient presence of
mind to turn the crank of his brake and
pull the engine up within couple of
yards of the fatal block
Here the emperor put his head out of
his car window and demanded to know
the cause of the sudden stoppage. The
engineer pointed to the rock, and, much
to his surprise, Dom Pedro began to
laugh.
Push 1t to one side and so on he
said, calmly.
The engineer obeyed and kicking the
stone was still further astonished to
see it crumble into dust before him.
1t was nothing more nor less than a
block of starch which the emperor had
had placed on the rails the night be-
fore
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-23

Second Mate OLSEN, of the Norwe-
gian bark Seladon, Captain Jaeger,
from Newcastle, N. S. W., July 13,
1896, for Honolulu, which was wrecked
in the South Seas, in August, 1896,
has arrived in London with dozen of
the survivors and tells terrible story
of their experience.
The Seladon struck the reefs off
Starbuck Island on August 7, 1896.
The crew were obliged to take to the
boats, and the vessel filed 30 rapidly
that there was no time to save cloth
ing, while they barely got few pro-
visions, the ships compass and chart.
They forgot the sextant.
Eight men manned each of the two
boats and made for Maiden Island, as
there was no refuge at Starbuck Island.
Failing to find Maiden Island, they
tried to find Christmas Island. After
eleven days the first mates boat was
capsized and the mate drowned. His
companions entered the other boat,
which was already disabled, and drifted,
dangerously overloaded.
The heat of the sun peeled their
faces and bodies; their lips blackened
and swelled from want of food and
water. The only food they had in ad-
dition to the small quantity of pro-
visions which they carried away from
the vessel was a few small flying fish.
Finally the captain and the carpen-
ter became ill. Still there was no
glimpse of Christmas Island Then
they tried a course they thought per-
haps would bring them to Samoa on
Fiji Islands. Finally Captain Jaeger
died. After twenty-three days, when
food and water were exhausted, they
caught little rain in tarpaulins. The
party drifted without food for six days
and finally, on September 6, they were
cast on a coral island and their boat
was smashed by big wave.
The island upon which they were
thrown proved to be Sophia Island,
inhabited by ten persons and belong
ing to an American subject living in
Samoa. They lived there for ten
months on turtles, birds and bananas.
The carpenter died soon after they
landed. A few steamships passed
their island, and they tried to attract
their attention by the waving of sig
nails, but failed. Finally they put off
in a small boat and hailed steamship,
which took them to Suva, and from
that place they travelled to Sydney.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-23

Kites have been called upon to do
many things of late, and now they are
expected to save life at sea. With II
vessel hard aground on a lee shore,
all her boats either smashed or car
ried away, and gale of wind blowing
so hard that neither lifeboats nor life
lines can reach her, the usual ending
of such marine disaster is the loss
of the entire ships company.
But DR.. F. W. Riehl, of San Fran
cisco, thinks he can prevent such
fatalities in the future by calling kites
to the aid of the storm beset mariners.
He recently gave an exhibition of the
practical working OF his idea from the
deck of the battleship Oregon in San
Francisco bay.
At the time of the tesla good breeze
was blowing, which speedily carried
the kite well up in the air and away
from the vessel. Donning bathing
suit, DR.. Riehl wrapped his clothing
in waterproof cloth and threw the
bundle overheard. As it foated down
wind he hauled in ON the kite line,
throwing the slack overheard. He
then jumped overheard, took turn
of the line around his body, and,
pulled along by the kite, went to lee
ward after his bundle of clothing. A
twenty-minute test of the device
seemed to prove that the inventors $
claims were well founded. A report
of the experiment will be forwarded
to Washington by the officers of the
Oregon.
DIR. Riehl asserts that his kite
would take man or rope ashore
through breakers in which q boat
could not live. OF course if the wind
was off shore the kite would be of no
use, but statistics prove, he asserts,
that in ninety cases out of one hun
dred in the event of shipwrecks the
direction of the wind has been toward
the land New York Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-23
go Lynched by Swallows.

A successful lynching took place on
the farm of jerome Butler, south of
Marlette, Mich, the other day. In
the barn swallows nest was seen
clinging to the side of .beam from
which was suspended an English
sparrow, hung by the neck with
hair from horses tail. While
Franklin Butler and Orla Albertson
were sitting in the barn they noticed
sparrow go into the swallows nest,
from which he began pitching the
young birds. Three swallows, at
tracted by their outcry, Immediately
pounced upon the intruder After
contining him to the nest for few
minutes they threw him out. He
dropped about foot, there was
jerk, and Mr.. Sparrow was hanged as
nicely as though an expert hangman
had been in charge. The hair was
wound around his neck several times,
and after few Intellectual struggles
he kicked his last.-Grand Rapids
Herald
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-23
WISE WORDS.

A FOOLS company is not hard to find.
Opinions never change the weather.
Honesty has never found substi-
sute.
Gold loses its shine when it is got
ten by guilt.
The best safe for your money is
prudent wife.
A giant among giants is not aware
Of his own size.
The ass might sing better if he didn't
pitch his tune so high.
The man robs others who does not
make the best of himself.
No man ever gets discouraged in
trying to live without working.
Woman is lovely dream-and
dreams always go by contraries.
Everybody says go up higher" to
the man who is getting there -
Call little man great and other lit
tic people will throw up their hats.
Absence sometimes makes the heart
grow fonder-of some other person.
To get the good out of the years we
must learn how to live each hour well.
A shallow man may always see the
face of fool by looking into deep
well.
Love may be blind, but it can smell
the cloves on mans breath just the
same.
Patience may roost on monuments,
but truth seldom finds place on tomb
stones.
When man freely admits that his
wife is not stubborn, he can afford to
stop praying.
The man who figures on marrying
an heiress often finds he isn't well up
in mathematics.
Some men are like bass drum
they make lots of noise, but there's
nothing in them.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-23
Hoods Pills cure all liver Ills. a5 cent,


by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portions of the ear. There is only one
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
damed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in
Named you have a rumbling sound or imper-
fect hearing. and when it is entirely closed
Deafness is the result. and unless the infiam-
nation can be taken out and this tube restored
TO its normal condition, hearing will be de-
stroyed for ever. Nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
named condition of the mucous surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catnrrh) that ca n
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure Send for
circulars, free.
Il. j. CHENEY g. Co., Toledo, o,
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the hest
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-23
CHILKOOT PAsE.

President Wallace says that with the com
pletion of the rail and tram-way over the Chill
koot Pass, February first next passengers
Lindeman in twelve hours, which means
via st. Paul and Northern Pacific Ry. to Lake
Lindeman, from Chicago eight days, send
Passenger Agent, st. Paul. Mimi, for the
latest and best map folder on the Klondike
and Alaskan mining country The Northern
senger business and runs solid vestibuled,
steam-heated passenger trains to Tacoma,
Seattle and Portland with dining cars, Stand
ard and Pullman tourist, and free coonist
sleeping cars. Berth reservations can be
made through any district passenger agent.