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Evening journal., 1897-08-04
CONTEMPORARY OPINION.
THE BRITISH SIDE.

The recent debate in The British Par
Lament over the Bering Sea question
brought forth some interesting state
ments on the part of the government
and also on the part of the opposition
One OF the Radical members, who was
formerly quite prominent in Liberal pO-
litical circles, declared that the present
Conservative government did not care
TO discuss its attitude toward the
United States, because Lord Salisbury
and his colleagues knew that they could
not count upon the united support Of
the House in such matters. The very
fact that this declaration was made so
openly and with no contradiction lends
force to the statement.
The British side in the dispute be-
tween the two governments relative to
the Bering Sea fisheries was stated by
the under secretary for foreign affairs.
Mr.. Curzon practically declared that in
asmuch as certain prohibitions against
seal poaching were found by poachers
to be onerous, the British government
instead Of revising those prohibitions
dropped them entirely. He also stated
that the delay in the publication of the
British experts report was due not tc
AAAtDA hAtAolActA eAAAi - dNb &c. uht " q NN
lay caused by awaiting certain intOrma.
tiOn from Canada. In answer to this il
may be said that the United States die
not desire any regulations which were
unnec cessarily Cnerous; Tut only such as
were Just. Also it may be said tha
Il is very curious that the report of thu
British expert could not have he n mad,
on that experts own investigation, bu
must depend upon suggestions from thu
Canadian government.
The dispatch of Secretary Sherman
has at last served to force the British
government to put forth tardy excuse
which might as well have been made I,
the American diplomatic representative
some time ago. The weakness Of thes
excuses is practically self-apparent an,
juSuties Sir Charles Dilke's inferenc
J that the Conservative governmen
knows that in this case il has not tn
whole nation behind it.-Chicaso In
ter-Ocean.
Evening journal., 1897-08-04
HUMOROUS.

The person who is afflicted with
xleptomania always feels that he ought
70 take something for it.-Tit-Rits.
-Hazel-"Why don't you like the
stories Mrs. Talker tells?" Mute
"They have no terminal facilities
Truth.
--Sprocket-"Did your wife run into
ANYTHING when she first got her Wheel p
Bloomer-"Yesi she ran into debit
Brooklyn Life.
-NIay-"Oh. 1 hate these magazine
serials!" Edith-"Why? May-"1ou
can never tell how a story ends until 1t
is finished. d."-BroolSlyn Life.
Nothing Deplorable.-High-"Wha
is the matter with YOU this morning 2
You look as though you were on your
last legs" Lowe-"Ohl I'm not myself
st alb High-"Well, that's pothing to
feel so bad about" Brooklyn Life.
II suppose you may say the honey
moon is at an end when the husband
begins to stay out late at tnight2' "1tot
exactly. II doesn't really end until the
wife can go to sleep again without be.
lieving what he has to say for himself.
Truth.
Evening journal., 1897-08-04
THE PENINSULA PRESS

Which of the two are worthy of trust?
The Union Republicans who worked
zealonsly for success of national. state
and county tickets. or the "bOlters"
who stand branded by their Demo-
cratic allies as disruptors and self-seek-
ing place-hunters. willing and anxious
to throw down state success for four
years of office under an administration
that will, If it does not already, despise
them and their methods Milford
Chronicle.
Residents and business people along
Shipley street are beginning to fear
that the Directors of the Street and
Sewer Department left that street out
of consideration, in determining what
work of paving should be done during
the current year. They therefore re-
spectfully appeal to the powers that be
to reopen the case and give the claims
of Shipley street the attention they de-
serve.-Every Evening.
There is just one question that the
Republican organs of the county must
answer in regard to race track legisla-
tion, and that is: Why didn't they leg
islate against it when they had the op-
portunlty? viii they explain this fall
ure to the voters of Cecil county,
Cecil Democrat.
Dumping a load of stone or dirt in a
hole in road is not in the direction of
mending the road. 1t simply makes the
conditions worse Then the in
equality OF the road-bed is a matter to
be considered. Too many of our roads
are either 50 high in the middle that
they resemble the peak of a house root
or else they are so low in the middle
as to hold every drop of rain that falls
Better roads are demanded, and the
roads we now have in a fair condition
| News
Evening journal., 1897-08-04

ter which he will visit Brandywine
Summit camp.
George Swan, bridge-tender at Mar
ket street bridge. has gone on a week s
vacation, part of which he will spend at
Atlantic City.
William Carnagy, of Kirkwood, Del,
is stopping at the Merritt House.
Edwin Pliny Slocum, of this city, was
in Dover yesterday.
e. NJ. Chambers has returned from
Lenape and Atlantic City, where he has
been spending his vacation.
Arthur W. Spruance left to-day for
Prouts Neck, Me.
Walter II. Hayes is in Dover to-day
Alvin r. Morrison is in Washington
Branch H. Giles, of Denver, who is
visiting his parents at Seaford, spent
to-day with Wilmington friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. William X. Crosby went
to RehOboth yesterday afternoon.
Magistrate Daley is at Atlantic City
Baldwin Springer and Senator Pyle
were in Dover yesterday.
Miss Il. Jeanne Heacock is spending
her vacation in New York city.
Mrs. Charles Kerns and son, of Iowa
are spending a week with Mr.. and Mrs
Otley Vernon.
Miss Minnie Carpenter as at Broao
water, Va, with Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
+. Mason, of Germantown.
SpottswcCd Garland and family hav,
returned from Narragansett.
Assistant Prothontary James ]. Brad!
is spending his vacation at Atlantis
City.
Miss Marion CLARK, who has beei
bed-fast with nervous prostration 70
the past en- weeks, is slowly improving
Evening journal., 1897-08-04

greatly increased basis for taxation
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania are
just now looking for new subjects for
taxation. The causes of this universal
increase in the burdens of taxation JUS
at time when people are least able to
bear it are manifest.
One of these causes was the depreci-
ated currency in the war time, which
caused a general increase in official ex-
penditures, and the habit of lavish ex-
penditures once acquired is not easily
abandoned. In addition to this indi-
rect taxation growing out of the war is
the interest on the war debt and the
pensions. 1t takes nearly a half mill
lion dollars every working day in the
year to pay pensions, and nearly the
entire receipts from The tariff tax in
1894 and 1895 were devClsed to the pen
siOners.
In state, city and county affairs there
is less economy than in former years,
and people are not satisfied with con-
dltions which gave content fifty years
ago They demand better schools, bet
ter streets. better lighting, better court
houses, almshOuses, schOOl-houses. All
the afflicted are now cared for at public
expense. The insane. the blind. The
deaf and dumb are educated and sup
ported by the taxpayers. Public char
ity has been greatly expanded. and
debts have been created to build impCs-
ing public structures for various pur-
poses. North of the Potomac and the
Ohio all This has been going on faster
than in the South. In the prairie and
sabe-brush states especially has there
been extravaganza in public buildings.
In the South the people have been con-
tent with more modest buildings, and
as a rule there is more economy in local
government The amounts collected
from The people have been smaller, and
there has been less temptation to plum
derers
A large proportion of the counties
and cities have debts upon them, in
Cured in building railroads. After the
war there was almost a frenzy of rail-
road building, and the generations to
come must pay for it. The great cities
have been misgoverned and robbed by
political rings, and debts have been in
Cured which should never have been
put upon the people.-Baltimor Sun.
Evening journal., 1897-08-04
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

Revenge carried beyond the grave is
instanced in the obituary notice, writ
ten by a Tennessee editor last week, of
a man who died owing him ten years
subscription for his paper. He said
chat the deceased had fallen so low in
his mortal life that he had to climb up
hill to get into perditiOn.-Kansas City
Times.
A Kansas City doctor hired an arm
less man TO watch his instrument case
The doctor thought he had a cinch on
the stranger, but the armless man hired
a bootblack to steal the case for him.
You can't keep a good man down.-Buf-
falo Express.
American soda water manufacturers
are having their innings More than
$22, 900 worth of apparatus was shipped
TO England last week, and nearly as
much the week before was shipped TO
Mexico, where soda water is a luxury.
Albany Argus.
They say King George barrlcaded
himself in his palace in order to es-
cape the fury of the popu.ace. If he
wants to find out what deadly peril
really is, he ought to get leave
OF absence to come over here and UNI
pire a baseball game.-Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune.
Citizens of Colorado Springs are dis
covering gold mines in their back
yards. Think of town where a fel-
low can go out in his garden and pick
a chunk of gold before he starts for his
office in the morning, just as an ordi-
nary citizen would pick a fresh cucum-
ber.-Buffalo Express.
New York may plume herself on the
fact that she will become Greater New
York and have a $4,000 mayor, five
boroughs, 1863 square miles and lots of
trouble. but deep down in her heart she
knows the ranking Thought lies that
never, never can she hope to have any
thing like the Chicago river.-Chicago
News.
Evening journal., 1897-08-04
LIFE IN THE PARIS cArAcoMss.

Creatures That Thrive I'm Subterra-
mean Parts of the French Capital.
Milne Edwards, the celebrated zoclo-
gist, is making an examination OF the
various forms of life which thrive
among the bones which line the eN
tensive catacombs of Paris. The little
animals which live among the relics of
no fewer than 100000 souls, packed
into these underground galleries, arc
chiefly insects, centipedes and crusta-
ceans, but they are so curiously altered
by their surrounding conditions as to-
present some interesting features to-
the naturalist. They form an interme-
diate or transition species betweenl
those which live in the light Of day and
the same animals found in natural
caves.
The prevailing color is white Of diff
ferent shades, for light is required for
the development of the colors of pig
ments in animals and plants. Some
! insects which have rcd eyes, apparent
ly sound, are blind. and when light
approaches they show no symptoms of
alarm until they feel the heat Of it,.
In others the place where the eyes
ought to be is covered with integument
and there is no trace of the eye. To
compensate for this deficiency the audi
tory and factile systems are abnormally
developed, simple or fortified hairs
growing all over the body, helping the
animal to find its prey or avoid some
danger. The campedes live on. moss,
podurelles swarm in the fungi, myria-
pedes eat the old wood and white
worms, beetles and spiders abound.
The underground water is also thronged
with infusoria, cyclOps which feed on
them and an infinite variety Of forms of
life, all modified in a similar way
Pittsburgh Leader.
Evening journal., 1897-08-04
TIE PAss1NG OLE Ann1cKs

II is evident that there is a revolt in
the ranks of the Union Republican
party and that il is making such rapid
headway that the leaders of that or
ganization are badly frightened. For
months there has been a feeling of dis
content, and il is about to break out in
open rebellion unless Chairman Alice
and his colleagues on the State Com
mittee succeed in the peace overtures
already begun.
The Addicksites at last realize that
they cannot, under any circumstance,
win in Delaware with ]. Edward Ad-
dicks as the prime issue, and they are
preparing to cast their Jonah into the
hungry nav of the regular Republican
whale and endeavor TO propitiate that
monster Of iniauity" as one of their
number called the Higgins Bach mitch
eli machine.
The passing of j. Edward Addicks
has begun. and like every other politi-
cal adventurer who has sought to buy
Delaware, he will soon be nothing NOR,
than a shadow to be conjured up a
times to 'frighten recalcitrant regular
Republicans
This Oblivion was prepared for Mr.
Addicks by the natural course of events
but il was hastened by the arbitrar.
manner in which he treated the yer.
men who had it within their power L
materially shorten the natural lengu
OF a political career founded on sue
unnatural conditions. He was so elate
by his victory that he forgot the need
of the future and thereby turned hi
victory to defeat.
There are thousands of Delawarean
who followed his lead last Fall for th
last ;'me, and in a few years we sha
see the old regular Republican leader
debating TO their factional opponent
as they were wont to do in years gor
by.
Evening journal., 1897-08-04
Human Density.

A French scientific writer points out
that a mere gain in weight should not.
IN itself, be taken as an indication of
improved bodily condition. 1t is, ac-
oording TO him, rather a question of
the density than of the quantity of
tissue that covers the bones. When in
crease of weight results from increased
density, then the health Is really inn
proved. In order that this principle
may be practically applied, he suggests
the use Of baths containing known
quantity of water and supplied with
appliances for measurement whereby
the density of the immersed body may
be calculated, in the manner in which
Archimedes ascertained the density or
King Hiero's crown Of adulterated gold.
Youths Companion.
Evening journal., 1897-08-04
GENERAL SMITH ARRAIeNEp.

1NAl II 3AAAANhANANLRf
The scathlng arraignment of General
Smith. engineer in charge of Whining
ton harbor, by the Board Of Port War
dens. should bring the desired answer
from the secretary of war
II is shown by the report of the spe-
cial committee OF the Board OF Port
Wardens that of the Sl9O,6 appro-
priated since 1886 for the Improvement
of the Christiana river, but $123.0 600 has
been used in actual work, the re-
mainder, S67 ,6574s or 35 per cent, be-
ing eaten up by office expense; and toI
make matters still worse, the depth of
the river continues to grow less all the
time Some idea OF the feeling which
prevails among those who are inti-
mately acquainted with the work done
and vitality interested in the condition
OF our harbor may be gained by the
following extract from the report of the
committee:
That we petition the honorable
secretary of war to place the
Christiana river and Wilmington har-
Dor in the hands OF some person who
will thoroughly identify himself with
the commercial interest of Wilmington
and the needs of the Christiana river
and Wilmington harbOr, as we believe
this harbor will never be properly inn
proved, or a sufficient depth of water
secured so long as its affairs remain
under the present management, and are
conducted as they have been In the
past; in exemplihcatiOn of this we
have to say that, according to the en-
gineer's report of June, 1885, there was
an actual channel of fifteen feet of
waiter at low tide in the Chrlstiana
river, from the Delaware river to Third
street bridge. and in June, 1897, there
was less than nine feet between the
same points.
This Is a plain, flat-footed declaration
that General Smith Is Incompetent to
perform the duties assigned to him by
the secretary of war. While such dec
laratlon will prove painful to the gen
eral and his friends, they must all con-
cede that the commercial prosperity OF
a city Of this size cannot be hampered
p by any one man, no matter who he is.
pied long enough. Now that the wedge
is in let the Board of Trade, the Board
OF Port Wardens and City Council drive
1t home, no matter where it strikes or
what officials suffer If we are to have
35 per cent. of our appropriations spent
in Office expenses Congress should be
impressed with the plain, but forcible,
truth that office expenses dig no mud,
and that merchant craft which wish to
come into our port to take on and dis
charge cargoes are deferred because
the money appropriated and expended
has not deepened our channel as il
should have done.
The agitation has been begun under
most favorable auspices and in a most
convincing manner, and General Smith
has an opportunity to put in a defence
against charges of incompetency sc
plainly pat with the figures to bach
them.
Evening journal., 1897-08-04
IIArE sPnRTrNG NOTEs.

The baseball critic CT the Chester
Morning Republican must be easily sat
isfed. for the following is among his
sporting notes:
The Rumford and Reilly played the
second game of their series on the
Seminary grounds in the presence OF a
large crowd of admirers of both teams.
Connolly occupied the box for the Rum
ford and pitched a good game, holding
their opponents down to seven hiss and
striking out nine men. Anderson,
Senior and Higgins led the batting for
the Rumford, each securing six hits.
White. Ililley and Spellacy carried of
the fielding honors. The score by in
nings;
Rumford 80 8 2 10 10 10--55
Reilley ..-...3 34 600 o O-1o
Evening journal., 1897-08-04
ACCIDENT TO A PHYSICIAN.

Elkton Md, Aug. 4.-Dr. Charles NJ.
Ellis, of ElktOn, met with an accident
while driving Monday night to see a
patient at Lewisville, Pa. He was ac-
companied by Daniel S. Terrell, a clerk
in the drug store CT Henry c. Wells.
When near Sharp's graveyard the car
riage was overturned and the occu-
pants thrown down ten-fOot embank-
ment The injuries to DR.. Ellis and
Mr.. Terrell were slight. The horse ran
away, and was caught on the farm Of
George Biles.
Evening journal., 1897-08-04
HER SINGULAR PROFESSION.

Miss Lillian Small, Of Cape Cod,
Mass, has a singular profession. She
lives in a small cottage, under the
shadow of the big Highland Light, and
here she spends her time looking
through the telescope for passing ships
and telegraphing to Boston. She learn
ed to do this when only a child, her
father occupying the post of signal
master. When she returned from board
ing school, where she was sent in due
course of time, she became her fathers
assistant. She leads lonely life, often
fer days seeing no one but the families
of the lighthouse keepers. She has a
wheel and a rifle for companions, and
is said to find amusement in coasting
and in shooting wild duck and such
game as the country affords.
Evening journal., 1897-08-04
SUMMIT CAMP CLOSED.
WELL-KNOWN MEMBERS OF WILL
MINGTON CONFERENCE TOOK
PART IN THE SERVICES.


Summit Grove, Pa, Aug. 4.-The last
day Of continuous service at Summit
camp was bright and beautiful. Every
service was largely attended.
Morning prayers were led by DR..
Hubbard. At $50 O'Clock Rev. w. H.
Weech conducted general testimony
meeting. The number of persons who
testified was large and the leader was
compelled to protract the service be-
yond the usual time.
Rev. A. S. Mowbray preached the
morning sermon from Luke xiii AZ,
And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remem-
Der me when Thou comest into Thy
kingdom" Mrs G. NJ. Learned follow
ed the sermon with some pertinent re-
marks, and a woman presented herself
for prayers.
Miss X. PetesOn conducted the last of
the children's meetings. Her closing
talk was about Christian Warriors. "
Rev. Mr.. Lambertson also addressed
the children.
The afternoon sermon was preached
by Rev. w. c. Babcock, upon THE Con-
version of Saul" The young people S
service was under the direction of Rev.
H. W. Ewing
The last sermon of the camp was
preached by Rev. w. l.. White, of Fed
eralsburg, about The UttermOst Saw
Jour
Evening journal., 1897-08-04
TELEPHONES
CHESTER.
FOR
CHEAPER

Chester, Aug. 4.-Mayor Black has
signed the ordinance granting certain
privileges to the Delaware County Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company, and II
is stated that the new company will be
ready for business in the Fall. Owing
to the existing high rates charged for
telephones, the new company was or
ganized, proposing to furnish phones
for one-third that charged by the old
company. This would be at the rate OF
not more than $50 for business houses
and $40 for private houses.
Evening journal., 1897-08-04
REAnING oCoPsn To CONE.

Chief of Police DOlan this morning
received a letter from Chief of Police
Albrecht. of Reading, Pa, stating that
in all probability the Reading police
men would visit the Wilmington police
either in August or September
Evening journal., 1897-08-04
HOSPITAL PHYSICIAN RESIGNS

Chester, Aug. 4.-Having been ap-
pointed to the Brainerd Hospital. Min
nesota, DR.. William G. Cameron has re-
signed as resident physician at the
Chester Hospital, to which. he was re-
Gently elected, and his probable success
sor viii be Dr. Edwards. of Brooklyn,
n. Y, a graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania.
Evening journal., 1897-08-04
BACK FROM SAN FRANCISCO.

Miss Anna T. Lincoln and Miss Mary
Grandel have returned from San Fran
cisco, where they went as delegates to
the Christian Endeavor convention.
They give glowing account of their
trip and were much pleased with what
they saw. With lheir party were How
ard d. Ross Miss Nellie Todd and Miss
Johnson, of Elam.
Evening journal., 1897-08-04
rHE cnsr nF IIVING

If the new tariff has any effect at all,
IL will he to increase the cost of all the
things which we call the necessaries of
life Will it also increase the earnings
of labor, so that we shall have enough
money to meet this increased cost? If it
does not DO this, it will be a hideous
failure even from the Mckinley point of
view.
We have not yet begun to feel the ef-
feet of heavier duties levied in the name
of projections; the new tariff has been
in opel alton only three days. But if it
works IA it was intended to work we
shall not have to wait long. The pur-
pose Of the increased duties on wool
and clothing and crockery and glass
and sugar and hides and lumber and
salt and carpets and hats and dress
goods and all the rest of the things we
use is to shut out foreign competition
and enable the American producers of
these articles-mOstly trusts-to charge
Us higher prices for their products. If
the tariff fails to do this, it fails to
protect" SO it is to be expected that
the cost of living will in a very short
time be increased for every one of us.
Now, where is the increase in wages
coming from to meet this additional
cost of food, clothing and household ar
ticles? The Republican tariff takes care
Of everybody except the laborer. the
consumer 1t puts an outrageous tax on
wool, but it gives the manufacturer OF
woolens a Compensatory" duty on
goods such as they make. 1t taxes SUI
gar but it gives the Sugar Trust a big
"differential." 1t levies heavily on
hides, but it offers the leather manufac-
turers a drawback But there is nei-
ther compensation nor differential mol
drawback for labor or for the con
sumer.-BOstOn Post
Evening journal., 1897-08-04

Elkton, Md, Aug. A wreck occur
red at Elkton station, on the Philadel-
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore rail-
road yesterday afternoon at 2.45, block
ing the sOuth-bound track for several
hours. The Iron Hill work train had
run down from the new-cut read east
of Elkton. The train consisted of ten
fat cars heavily laden with earth. The
engine stopped at the water house, when
extra freight No. 35, south bound, came
upon it, The engine went crashing into
the rear end of the work train, lifting
one of the cars from the track upon the
car ahead. Several cars were derailed
and the pilot of the engine was demOl-
ished. No one was injured. Several
tons of earth were thrown on the plat
form leading from Bow street crossing
to the depot
Evening journal., 1897-08-04
WEL1,-KNOWN FARMER DEAD.

West Chester, Aug. 4.-John Dinkel,
a well-kncwn farmer, died at his home
in Charlestown last night. aged 6S
years. For many years he resided in
that section, and for a long while was
a successful agriculturist. He leaves a
wife and four daughters.
Evening journal., 1897-08-04

The new tariff is a law, but 1t is TAX
ing a great deal of law to tell just
what some points of "the law" in this
case really mean.