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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29

OF all the tired men and women
Know, the one who appeals to me most
is Public School teacher. Forty five
eager, active, growing minds to guide
and control all winter, 10 satisfy and
stimulated Not many tasks have
equaled it. | was condoling with one
the other day, when she said she
wished tho world would understand
better the duty of rest,
| confess that tho idea was new to
me. l had thought of rest ms pleasure
and as privilege; ! had regarded it as
necessity; and | had even at times
looked unon 1t as a temptation when
obligations drew me ono way and
fatigue dragged me down in euother.
But rest as duty opened quite
another point OF view.
1t must have lleen meant as duty,
though, originally, else one day in
seven would never have been COM
manded
But the "why' Of it's being duty
We have been loft to discover for our.
selves. 1t was Bishop Brooke who first
made me see that recreation might
mean recreation. | had a little of the
Puritanic idea, which no helped to
ulsnel. L recognized, 100, as ne spoke,
that the universe was iull OF great
inspiratiOnal and removing forces,
which were always playing in on us,
as the air is hreathed into our lungs,
before we are able to maze conscious
effort. Be receptive, and they fill u.s.
Our duty, then, | suppose, il to-
ward those forces; TO rest from our
human activities until they play in on
us, and 80 rebuild us. For most of us,
after all, are 30 eager in the pursuit OF
one idea-en idea sometimes Of pleasure,
sometimes of gain-that We detach our
selves, as it were, from the main pur.
pose of our lives, like wheel Of a
coach that breaks away from the main
body, and goes OF merrily ON its own
account down hill, to find itself at the
end of it's journey without power and
without place. -Iiarpers Bazaar.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29
GLIDE CROSSINGS TO GO.


A Plan OF Grent importance to Washing
ton Adopted by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road.
After repeated Efforts on the part of
the commissioners of the District of
Columbia AMI the officials OF the Penn
sylyania railroad, extending over d
period of almost eight years, to agree
upon plans for the removal OF grade
crossings IN the city of Washington. a
compromise plan has been finally agreed
upon which, il approved by Congress-,
will result in the work being begun not
later than next spring.
According to the estimates of Chiof
Engineer Brown the approximate cost
Of the work will be about 50, 600, GOO,
the greater portion OF which will have
to be borne by the railroad company.
Tho plan contemplates combination
OF an elevated and depressed system.
Another feature OF the plan ia the
building of two bridges to take the
place of the present long bridge. This
bridge is combination railroad anu
wagon bridge, and the railroad com.
pany is to replace it with an entirely
new structure to be devoted entirely Il
railroad purposes, and another bridge
devoted entirely to wagon and fool
travel is to no erected by the govern
ment short distance above it.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29
TaE rOYS TAIN or THE TORLD.


~ should like" said the vase from the
china store.
ITO have seen the world little more.
"When they carried me here was wrapped
up tight,
But they say it is really lovely sight,
Yes" said little plaster bird.
That is exactly what have heard z.
There are thousands of trees, and, oh,
what sight
It must be when the candles are all alight."
The fat top rolled on his other side
ut is not in the least like that" he cried.
Except myself and the kite and ball,
None of you know of the world at all.
There are houses, and pavements hard and
red,
And everything spins around" he said;
Sometimes it goes slowly and sometimes
fast,
And often it stops with bump at last"
The wooden donkey nodded his head
81 had heard the world was like that" he
said.
The kite and the bail exchanged smile
But they did not speak; it was not worth
while.
....-. st, Nicholas
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29
a PRAoTIC1L VIEW or IT.


The folks that write OF fields of green where
birds and daisies rule.
I'll bet YOU never struck them fields and
plowed Georgy mule;
And them that write of tinkling bells in
dclls where cattle roam,
I'll bet You, never had to drive the scamper-
ing cattle home
And them that sing of woodlands sweet, and
softly signing pines.
I'll bet you, never had to tramp through
prlckly briers and vines
And cut cord of wood or two! No matter
what they say,
The country amt as purity as it looks from
far away
Just let EN- come and try it-where people
have to rise
Before the sun has blazed way along the
chilly skies.
And work from then until the stars look
from the darkening dome
I'll bet you, fore the day was done they'd
all make tracks for home
And yet, they keep on singing of country
life 80 sweet"
And leave out all the mortgages and notes
we have to meet
We thank 'em for their complimC nts for
oil the words they say;
But still-we amt as purity as we look from
far away
Alliance faasttt,t;..,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29

A lady who is city missionary be-
came very much Interested in very pnur
but apparently respectable Irish family
named Curran. living on the top floor
of d great tenement house in the Stun
district.
Every time she visited the Currans
the missionary was annoyed by the
staring and the whispering of the other
women living in the building. One
day she said to Mrs. Curran:
Your neighbors seem very curious
to know who and what / am and the
nature of my business with you.
They do So, acquiesGed Mrs.
Curran.
DO they ask you about it?" "Indade
they do, ma 'auI," And do you tell
them?'' Faith, thin, an Oi do not. ="
What do you tell them?" sol jest tell
thin you are me dressnaker, an let ii
90 at that. "--llaper's Bazaar.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29
LATE VIEW INTENTIONS.

Chicago News.
To dislodge burrowing animals from
their hnles or from hollow logs new
hunting device has flexible shaft with
Hanged piioting bulb at one end and
crank at the other to make the bulb
worm its way into the hole and force
the animal out.
Extension tables are being made with
a pocket in the under side to hold the
leaves, which are all hinged together
in such manner that they will drop
down into the pocket when not in use
the edges coming even with the table
top TO form a smooth surface.
Farmers will appreciate a new pillow
which has riding sulky attached to
II, formed of two light wheels on an
axle which carries the seat, the pillow
point being tilted to any angle or raised
out OF line with tho ground by meaus
OF levers carried by the suky.
A new idea in bicycle brakes ia a
fitting saddle with rod running down
to brake spoon over the rear tire, the
brake being applied Hs the rider OF the
wheel straightens up TO slow the wheel
up and the action of bending forward
to grasp the handles releasing il again.
For the cure OF stammering recently
patented device has a mstal body por-
ton to clamp on the teeth, with a
round socket in the end TO hold felt
pad against which another pad on the
opposite rows OF teeth strikes as the
stammerer brings his jaws together
rapidly. t.l
To save gas in places whsre tine pres
suro causes it to flare a'check valve is
placed 10 the pipe, consisting of ball
resting OF gauze net across the pipe
which il forced into conical section
OF the pipe whenever the gas is turned
on to decrease its pressure and make it
burn slower. 4,
Keys can be fastened in locks so bur-
glars cannot remove them by means Of
piece Of wire bent at right angle
aud attached to the door by staples to
allow 1T to move freely, loop being
formed in the loose end to slide over
the end Of the koy and prevent its turn
ing or being pushed out.
A newly designed grand stand for
racs. tracks and base hall grounda ia
formed Of a rooted frame pivoted on
posts back of the centre, with the rear
attached TO base by means of swiv-
eled rods, which can be frightened or
loosened to raise or lower the oyerhang.
ing front portion of the roof.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29

Take some pretty material and cut
from il two squares of - inches each.
Line both squares, and sew the four
edges together, lining 10 lining. Then
stitch across the four corners about
three inches deep thrnugh all four
thiclineases, Whom that is done cut
out round hole about tho size Of
saucer in the centre of one square and
its lining. Face nhuut an inch around
this opening. This then becomes the
upper side. Run double drawing
string of ribbon in the casing thus
formed. Now set tassel on each cor
ner Of the squares and one 10 the centre
OF the under square. Pull the centre
tassel, draw the gathering ribbon, and,
10 very pretty lag shapes itself 10
the hand. -iarper'a Bazag.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29


You should always be very careful in
coming to the top OF a ridge; take your
gun down off your shoulder. lest the
sun rejecting on the rifle barrel srartle
deer ON top or m the other side Get
your head above the ridge slowly and
carefully, and study the surroundings
very attentively before you bring your
entire body into view. Let your gaze
he comprehensive take in as much of
the country as possible, and bear in
mind that the dear you ara looking for
are not always within 30 or a 100 YARDS
Of you, but may be on 40 opposite
ridge, or considerably out of rifle. shot.
Take the highest ridges and keep under
covar as much as possible, stopping
every now and again for long and
careful survey of the surrounding Coun-
try. Look out that you do not step on
dry sticks or break tho bushes as you go
through them. Remember that deer
favor the points ana backs of ridges,
bushy heads of little ravines, thickets
whero there are few fallen lUgs, and the
grass plateaus that are surrounded by
more or lees open timber. IL you come
upon tracks, study them carefully, that
you may not he deceived as to the mum
hcl VI hppls Slltublulus lub Top vi d
ridge will be pretty we'll tramped up by
only two or three. Compare the size Of
the tracks, and if they ars in snow or
fairly moist ground, it will be easy for
you to tell whether or not tbey are fresh
by lingering the little ridge left by the
slot Of the hoof, or by the inside edges
of the footprints. Oftontimes, no doubt,
you may be surprised and cnagrined by
hearing deer break away in front or to
one side or another of the line you have
been travelling aud you will be puzzled
for the cause, knowing that the wilma
was in your favor, and that you have
been making nu noise. The trouble
was, most probably, that you have NOT
baen looking far enough ahead-that
you have been looking only Immediately
in front of you; and sometimes, no
doubt, you will find that little bust
which did not seem large enough 10
hide II deer was the very one from which
it had jumped and disappeared into
the thick covering. The ksenest eye
sight ia needful to the discovery of deer
on all occasions, and you will be sur
prised to learn how small bush will
completely shut them from your view.
| --IIarDer's hound Table.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29
IN THE FUTURE.
"a Way They WIN Have In the British
Navy"


Navy"
The commissioners OF the admiralty
were making their annual inspection,
their yachting expedition had been ex-
ceptionally pleasant. They had seen
the ships and the guns. At that point
they had stopped short.
"And now you say that the whole of
the machinery is worked from the CEN
trail tower?n queried the first lord.
Yes, - was the reply. THE vessel
ia steered, tho guns are worked and the
fires are stUled all by electricity.
IAN ingenious contriyance, re.
marked the second seu lord,
Very" consented this superintend-
ent. land, as recruits are scarce, con-
yeniept."
"Well. with the inspection of this
last first-rate hattleship our inspection
concludes. | think we have seen every
thing?"
This colleagues of the speaker whis-
peTed o suggestion.
To be sure-I had forgotten il. We
have seen the ships and tho guns But
we have not inspected the mon. So
perhaps we might overhaul the crew OF
the present vessel. Mr.. Admiral, will
you kindly beat to quartere?"
Thus invited, the officer whistled and
the summons was answered by head
appearing out of the central tower.
'And who may you beS' asked the
first lord.
''Please, your honor" came the re.
ply, 81 am the crew. p"
1.-THE crew What crew."
The crew of this here vessel aud l
can tell you, lords and gentlemen. th at
it's precious lonely working big ship
like this without messmate -
And the lords of the admiralty hav.
ing nothing better to do-mads a note
of the objection.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29
TIE M.1fr.ERMELON.
Like the Nectar of the Gods Crystalized
in Luscious Packages.

Like the Nectar of the Gods Crystslized
in Luscious Packages.
utlc1 Observer.
Ii is approaching melon lims-indeed,
melons ara already here, and they will
continue to grow better hereafter as
long as the season may last Pretty
nearly everybody hopes its end will not
be seen until the frnsts ars with us
again, for the comfort TO be gotten out
Of a cold melon on hct day is GER
tainly great.
or course, we do not get melons hore
at their heat unless they are home
grown. The melons sent here from
Missouri and Georgia must be picked
before they arc ripe and ripen Oft the
vines as they coma along in the freight
cars. Il they can be allowed to remain
on the vines till the last minute, they
are sweeter and Of better flavor. When
they come to us they are quite apt to
DO wited. But in the South, where
they grow so easily-ah, there they are
like the nectar of the gods crystalized
in crisp and lucious paclagos
A gentleman who has spent several
| years in the melon section OF Missouri
says that 10 or Is cents will buy the
largest melon there. They are brought
into the towns in great loads and are
for sale everywhere. Everybody eats
melons, too, for they are generally rec
ognized as good to keep the tempera.
ture down to the living point 1T is
n curious thing, BIO says, "that when
your workmen. clerks or employees cut
a melon they stop work TO eat it with
out fault being found by anybody. The
| presence of melon in the hanus OF a
gang of men il signal for all to stop
whatever they. may be doing until the
melon is disposed of. The foreman
or proprietor will wait around for his
slice and occasionally do the fair thing
| by bringing in melon. A millinery
store full of girls will stop trimming
hats and retailing gossip when there's
a melon ready to eat. have seen tho
hands in big lumber yard shut down
tho planer and stop all operations to
eat melon. i really believe that il
come one would only take melon into
church the sermon would stop and the
hymns remain unsung until the melon
had Disappeared down the throats of
the members Of the congregation.
- 1t isn't only tho darkey who eats
melons 10 do place whar do melons
grow / assure you. White people
think just as much of them as the
negroes. Probably the reasons why
people Hu dearly lore melons may he
two fold; Melons uFe good ami water
In pour. But whatever the reason. IL
you live where melons grow you will
eat them in large numbers; and when
you are eating your friends will join
you; and while ihcy are eating you will
Join thsm. No work will keep you out
OF your slice of melon, aud it no sooner
disappears than ynu begin to wonder
how long time will pass before some
| body cuts another -
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29
jan WINDOIy.

From out the grated window of Jail
Two faces looked with angry, evil glance
Two aged men's-with tedious durance pale.
And stamped with hatred, vice and
ignorance
A morning-glory twined about the CRATE
And lifted up its blossoms white and blue,
And as II in sympathy with their hard fate
Its modest freshness pititully threw,
Sweet emblem Of Gods love for mortals
frail
Which finds in hardened natures some
faint leaven.
And from the grievous ladder of Jail
Prays them to struggle, like the flower,
toward heaven.
The philistine
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29

Salisbury. Md, July u. Lightning
played havoc last Monday at White
Haven, WiGomico county. Early in tho
morning a holt struck the home Of
Capt. George Pine. Capt Pine. hi5
wife and six children were all sleeping
in ono room. On one bed was the
father, son and daughter; across the
room the mother and four other chi
dren. The bed on which this father
was sleeping was directly in the course
Of the lightning. The bolt naseeI over
the three persons to tho other side of
the house. Tho entire side Of the house
was Knocked out. Capt. Pine and the
two children narrowly escaped being
killed. The lightning entered the cap.
tain's gar and entered the throat OF the
daughter, The sou escaped with only
a slight shock, hut it is feared the
fathor's and daughters minds have
been affected by the shock. Strange az
it may seem, the mother and four chill
drcn sleeping just across the room
escaped all injury. Capt. Pine ia a poor
man, and the people OF White Haven
have started subscription to raise
enough muney to rebuilu the house and
give him and his children medical at
tontion, 5.s.,,.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29

Special Correspondence Of Gazette and journal
Frederick Soree was arraigned in the
municipal court this morning on the
charge of using abusive language
ward his wife at Front and Shipley
streets yesterday afternoon. lie waa
arrested 10y Officer kalston, who stated
that his remarks wero disgusting.
Soree, in making an explanation, said
that he considered he had a right ia
reprimand his wife. She asked him for
money and that made him "mad, -
which he thought justified his notions.
Judge Ball thought otherwise, however,
and imposed fine Of IS, together with
the costs in the case.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29

BuffaIo, \. y, July q. at d meet.
ing of the Buffalo Gas Light Co. to-day
a resolution was adopted TO sell tho
stock to the Mutual Gaa Light Go. for
81, a75, 900. The vote was II, 40 shares
for to 50 against, cut of a total Of 70,
900 shares. The 3G shares are hold by
j. Edward Addicks of Delaware, who
declares he will carry the case to the
United States Supreme Court.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29

Pm afraid | made mistake about
Blimher to-day?'
How was that?'
Why. Blimber has Just got back
from fishing trip and when it comes
to fish stories Blimber is the worst liar
in the diocese. got in the car this
morning and Blimber made room for
me. just as soon Ms | eat down saw
that he was going to omen up so asked
him to change places with me-"
What did you do that for?'
SO as to get him on the side next
my deaf ear. And say, what do YOU
think? Blamed ii be didn't pull out a
$40 bill and say something that I
couldn't understand and when l shook
my head he put it back again."
"a $40 bili?''
Yes. He's owed me $40 for six
months. "-Cleysland Plain Dealer.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29
A Contemplate Trick.

my wife caught me last night.
When l come home late usually sill
down on the top step of my porch and
never ret home until after midnight.
say it'u before. She caught me- all
right last night! !"
elbow was that?"
"Just at midnight she sneaked oui
and painted the top step. "-Cloveland
Plain Dealer.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29

The following list shows that grsat
deal Of money is made from popular
music in England Sir Arthur Sullivan
is said to have realized El0, 600 by his
celebrated song The Lost Chord. 2
Balfe appears to have received high
prices for the copy rights of some of his
songs. For : dreamt dwelt in marble
halls" he got Is, 600. the anma for
When other lips" and 60. 00U for
THE heart bowed down. When re.
Gently put up for auction. 81, 2l2 los.
was obtaineu for the copyright oil
Michael Watson's song Anchored. -
aarper's Round Tphla-
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29

The relative value of cowry money
varies. In British India aud siam
about 1000 pasH for shilling. The
ordinary graduation liz Central and West.
ern Africa, the true home Of cowry-
trading, is as follows: Forty cowries
make string; two and ono half strings
equal q penny; 50 strings, head; and
10 heads, one bag. 4 bag of 90, O0O
cuwries Just before the founding of the
Congo Free State Was worth I7s Cd.
English money. ict this value was not
uniform, varying aligntly according to
locality. Slaves aud ELEPHANTS tuslss
however, have always been settled for
in barter, not in cowries. Prints and
cotton cloth, iron spikes aud brass wire
have proved the most accountable pay
ments for such articles of merchandise
But with few exceptions of this kind,
which belong to export commerce,
cDwries have for ages furnished tire
money medium. Barth, the traveller,
tells us that in Mumyoma, Western
Africa, the kings revenue was reckoned
at 30, 900. 900 shells, each male adult
being assessed SO mapy shells poll tax,
SO many for every sfave and pack ami
NAL. There was no eyaning the tax
cuIlectoT elJueT' IL Nhh elJnSr prompt
payment, or else the headsman col,
lected poll-tax in his fashion, antsthe
victims property was cophscated. The
establishment at the Congo Free State,
with its raIlwaye, STEAMBOATS,, trading.
posts and the opening up Of this enor.
nous territory to commerce ON a great
scale will probably before many years
exterminate cowry currency in all but
the remoter regions. Such money
ceaees to be Of uss with the coming Of
civilized usages. - liarper'a Round
Table.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29
- - -
as fUU LIR E 1T.

Now doth the city idiot his pleasant home
desert
He wanders off to some old lake, and dons a
flannel shirt,
There in apartments, two by four, he tries
TO take his ease,
While fighting animalculae mosquitoes,
bugs and tleas,
He hasn't room to take his BREATH but vet
he tries to smile,
In sckly, sentimental way, for that's the
proper style
How is the cimate?" some one asks,
well" he says. "as rule.
Although the days are pretty warm, the
nights are always cool.'
lie wanders up and down the beach, recit-
ing poems aud SUCH
And looks down on the other chumps as IL
they weren't much;
He talks OF boats and rigging and the lar.
board and The lee,
AS II he would impress folk that he'd some
time been to sea.
He bitches up his trousers like sailor on
the stage,
And prattles to small school girls of very
tender age
If someone says, "how hot it is ?, he shouts
you goldaTned fool
Although the days are pretty warm the
nights are always cool.'
st. Paul Dispatch.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29

o cyclist Of the twinkling feet,
Sounding your foEhorn from afar,
So horizontal from your seat.
SO crooked DER your handle. bar;
Although I've studied you deal,
1t rather puzzles me to say
Whether you're broken on the wheel,
Or bent upon holiday.
Pick, Me. In
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29
clever WORKING of tho Rural MIna.

Sally" How I'd like to be one OF
them great actresses or singers %
Tier Mother-"Oh, dunno! 1t must
be an unhealthy business. ;,
Sally" Why, ma?"
Her Mother-'Don't you allus nee
thar names in the papers telliu, how
they've been takin' natent medicines
40 tonics an secnf"-St. Louis star.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29

Arthur Wise. formerly night operator
and ticket agent at New Castle, has
been removed 10 tho tower in the west
yard, and Owen Sheridan, the west
yard operator, removed to Mount
Pleasant.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29

First Unfortunate--"W What are you
10 fer.4-drunk an disorderly?"
Second Unfortunate Sure. DO
look as il wuz in fer scurchin ~
Brooklyn Life.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29

Mrs. o. u. Ford, living at No. %
Buena Vista streat, fell Thursday last
anu broke her nip. She was attended
py DR.. ShortlidGe.