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Evening journal., 1897-05-15
some other Robberies Here.
sued For Reckless Driving.

New York, May 15.-The trial Of a suit
brought by Mary d. Tate against Father
Bill DAILY the well known turfman, to
recover $4,000 damages for alleged per-
sonal injuries was begun in the supreme
court, Brooklyn. On July g. 1892, Mrs
Tate was crossing Surf avenue Coney
Island, when. she alleges. she was
struck and knocked down by a horse
known as Guesswork, which Daily was
driving. She says her shoulder was
fractured and that she was cut and
bruised internally. She also alleges that
DAILY was owner or part owner Of the
horse and that he was driving it in a
careless and negligent manner. Daily
makes a general denial
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
Asks For a Chango of venue.

Chicago, May 15.-President Charles
w. Spalding of the failed Globe Savings
bank. who is under arrest on several
Indictments for embezzlement filed a
petition in Judge Balls court asking for
a change of venue on the ground that
10 Of the circuit and superior court
judges, who are ex officio criminal court
judges. were prejudiced against him.
Judge Ball was named as one of the 49,.
This leaves only four judges before
whom Spalding Is willing to be tried.
The petition was opposed by the states
attorney on the ground that the stat
utes only permit the swearing to preJu-
dice of two judges. The petition was
taken under advisement.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
Cruiser NashviiIo a Success.

Bridgeport. Conn. May 15.-"The
fastest vessel of her class in the world"
was the verdict accorded by the officers
Of the trial board at the conclusion Of
the speed trial of the new cruiser Nash
VILE on Long Island sound. The speed
required by the government was 1907
knots. The average speed made by the
vessel was 1906 knots. making an ex-
cess Of speed Of very near three knots
with a bonus Of $4,000 for each excess
knot, this means a total OF 100000 for
her builders.
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nrnrder sentenoo connrmnd.

Albany. May 15.-The court of appeals
has affirmed the order of conviction for
murder in the first degree Of John Hen
ry Barker, convicted of numbering his
wife, Henrietta Barker, Aug. 80, 1896
in the town of Harrison, Westchester
county. The evidence showed the de-
fendant to have been a quarrelsome
man, who abused his wife and often
threatened to kill her; that he pursued
her through one house and drove her
before him on a path toward home. and
when she tried to escape deliberately
shot her with a double barreled shot
gun. killing her almost instantly The
defendants plea Of accident was not
accented.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
RnttIs WIN smurrlers.

st. Johns, n. f., May 15.-A serious
encounter has taken place in Fortune
bay between a band of smugglers and
the crew OF the revenue cruiser Fiona.
The revenue officers endeavored to ar
rest the smugglers for carrying veni-
son to st. Pierre. The smugglers resist
ed and succeeded in driving off the off,
GERS. Reinforcements are being sent by
the revenue authorities, as it is feared
that the disturbance may assume seri-
Gus proportions.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Scores of the Baseball Gam,s.

At Cincinnati
Cincinnati. 1 0 ? 1000 % L 0 l. c
New York. 1 0 0 0 0 0 o. 5
Cincinnati-Hits, 10; errors, /. New
York-Hits, 10; errors, 2.
At st. Louis
st. Louis .....4 900 o o 0 o. 4
Baltimore .... 2 0 0 0 2-11
ST. Louis-Hits, 9; errors, /. Balti-
more-Hits, II. errors, g.
At Louisville
Philadelphia q. 0 1 10 1 0 -
Louisville ..... O. 0 0 0 o.
Phladelphia-Hits II; errors, 1. Lou
isville-Hits, A; errors, 2.
At Pittsburg-
Pittsbprg .....S 900 O4OO 0 - z
Washington go. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o.
Pittsburg-Hits, Z; errors, /. Wash
ington-Hits, s; errors, 3.
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sunday Ban PLAYING Not a Crime.

Syracuse, May 15.-Police Justice
Thomson discharged John Malarky and
Mace Mason of the Syracuse Baseball
club, who were arrested on May on
the charge of Sabbath desecration in
playing baseball with the Wilkesbarres
on that day. He held that il was not
shown that a breach of the peace had
been committed or the law violated.
Buffalo will play here next Sunday.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
Dufy's Pure
Malt Whiskey

which stirs up and enriches the
blood, restores lost energy and in
yigorates the whole system. 1t
tones up the digestive organs, makes
sound, healthy flesh and drives
away tired, miserable feelings. Its
effects are speedily shown in brighter
looks, increased strength and inn
proved health.
All groccrs and druggists keep it.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
An Ingenious Suicide.

Canajoharle, N. Y. May 15.-The body
Of Joseph Chamberlain. aged 40 years,
was found hanging to a tree in the
woods near Sprakers. Chamberlain was
employed as lock tender on the Erie
canal and is supposed to have commit
ted suicide. The rope was arranged in
such a manner that when his body fell
the rope tied his hands together across
his neck. The coroner is investigating.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
Requests to missionary societies.

Hartford. May 15.-By the win Of the
late Roland Mather, admitted to pro-
bate here, the Congregational Home
Missionary society Of New York and the
American board Of commissioners Of
foreign missions will each receive S15,
OO0 and the American Missionary So
ciety of New York and the trustees Of
the Hampton Normal and Industrial in
stitute $4,000 each.
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closed ON Account of Increased DUTY.

Montreal. May Isl. M. Fortier's eli
gar and cigarette factory has been
closed. This throws nearly 200 people
out Of work. 1t is due to the fact of the
Increased duty put by the Liberal gov
ernment on tobacco combined with the
decision given by the courts against
Fortier and in favor of the American
Cigarette company when Fortier COM
planned that the latter company would
nor allow its goods TO be sold 20 any one
who sold his goods.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
Ne,v Railroad Incorporatcd.

Oneonta. n. Y, May 15.-Articles OF
Incorporation for the Oneonta and Otcgo
Valley Railroad company have been
filed with the secretary of state. The
company is to establish a street surface
electric railroad system IN this city and
to West Oneonta, a total distance Of 10
miles. The capital stock is 100000. The
franchise was granted.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
rroons For PhlIadelphIa,s pedicatlon.

New York May 15.-Lieutenant Hin
lSle and IS men from companies A, II
and 1 of the Third artillery, stationed
at Fort Hamilton, went to Governors
island to take charge during the alb
senoe of the three companies of the
Thirteenth infantry stationed there,
who are going to Philadelphia to take
part in the ceremonies incident to the
dedication of Washington monument
in that city.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
Lehnndr Wins Again.

London. May Is. - NJ. r. Lebaudy's
bay gelding Chon Kina won the Royal
-year-old Plate of 5000 sovereigns.
2, 400 sovereigns to the winner, at the
Kempton park spring meeting today.
Among the starters was the Lorillard-
Beresford stables chestnut colt lap
wing II, which was unplaced.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
STRANGE TALE OF THE SEA.
A Ships Boat Upset by sudden Rush
of Fish

OF FISH,
New York. May 15.-The fishing smack
Annie Greenlaw, which has arrived at
Greenport, l.. l., brings a strange tale
Of the sea. The captain. John Green
law Of Gloucester, Mass, reports that
last Wednesday night six of the crew
were in the smack's boat setting seines
about a big school Of mackerel. An ex-
ceptionally good catch was made, but
Just as the men were tightening their
ropes the immense school Of fish made
a peculiar rush in one direction.
The boat which was firmly secured to
both ends of the net, began to settle
and in a few minutes was dragged un-
der water by this writhing school Of
fish. The men were good swimmers
and in a short while were all taken
aboard the smack. By this accident
over $50 barrels of mackerel were lost.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
sninlhe nfn willow.

Bristol. Conn, May 15.-Mary J. Cres-
sy, a widow 10 years of age. committed
suicide at the home of her son, Herbert
l. Cressy. with whom she lived. Mrs.
Grassy took a dose Of laudanum at 5
osiook and died at II a.. m. No motive
for the deed can be assigned.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
neld on a charre OF Ar.on.

Providence. May 15.-Frank Watson,
who was adjudged probably guilty Of
having attempted to burn the Conu-
mental hotel at Narragansett Pier. was
brought to this city on a writ of habeas
corpus and before Judge Tillinghast Of
the supreme court was admitted to bail
in the sum of $500. Bail was furnished
by the former surety, Louis f. Bell Of
yVal-ofald
Evening journal., 1897-05-15

to allow the State Board of Agriculture
to investigate freight rates and prevent
determinations. as it was deemed more
a part of the work Of a railroad COM
mission.
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Damares For Ioss OF Husband.

Fonda. N. Y, May 15.--In the supreme
court Mrs. Margaret b. swart was
awarded damages TO the amount Of
81. 900 srom the Central Hudson Railroad
company for the death of her husband
who was killed at the West Shore cross
ing in Amsterdam. last September. Mrs.
Swart sued for 5000.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15

The Greater Wilmington Printing
and Publishing Company, southwest
corner Of Fourth and Shipley streets, is
prepared to do printing OF every de
scription quickly and efficiently.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
Terrible, Yes

but how many people there are who
drag through weary days, oppress-
ed with weak, tired, languid feel
ings.
To overcome this unhealthy, de-
bilitated condition there is nothing
better than
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HorribIe hallway disaster In Russia.

st. Petersburg, May ia terrible
railway disaster befell a military train
between Rockenhof and Eliva, on the
Valh Jurjov line. Sixteen cars We're
smashed. Two officers and nearly 100
soldiers were killed and 60 others seri-
otislv injured
Evening journal., 1897-05-15

The Greater Wilmington Printing
and Publishing Company, southwest
corner Of Fourth and Shipley streets. is
prepared to do printing Of every de
scription quickly and efficiently.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
MALLORY FIectsd senator.

Tallahassee, Ela.. May 15.-Stephen
r. Mallory was elected United states
senator today on the twenty-hfth ball
lot.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
BETTER FOR RAILROAD CoMAIIs-
SION.

Dover, Del, May 15.-The Constitu-
tional Convention yesterday struck out
of the new Constitution the provisions
The Van Buren press., 1897-12-25

the soil in the breaking of the land.
The same applies with equal force in
the applical ZION Of both phosphotes and
potash. we prefer to "broad castn5all
fertilizers We cbme now to the cheap-
est plan of all of feeding the crop
and increasing the fertility of the
soil, viz. Raising yo"r own needed
supply of nitrogen at home, by means
of the southern stock or field pea.
thereby saving.S5 per acre in the fer
tilfzer bill by having no. nitrogenous
fertilizer to buy This may be done
by laying off all rows on the farm
three feet apart, planting every other
row in peas; this in both cotton and
corn. Five feet of soil may be given
when necessary to either corn or cot
ton at laying by, ~ inches being a
plenty for the peas. The only pre-
caution necessary where this plan is
followed is to plant "bunch' pea or
the yellow Greeper." we use the lat
ter and find that it neither runs on the
corn nor interfefes in the slightest
with the picking of the cotton, The
peas should be fertilized with from 800
TO 600 pounds per acre of a mixture of
two parts (by weight of acid phos-
phate and one part kainit. The peas
not only furnish nitrogen, but they
also keep up the supply of humus,
which latter is SO essential that there
can be no increase of fertility without
it. Where the plan is followed Of
planting every alternate, row in both
corn and cotton, in peas, and the peas
literally fertilized, that is all the rota-
tion necessary to enlarge the crops and
gradually increase fertility of soil; but
double and treble speed is made, aud
the two-bale per acre mark far more
speedily reached by fertlizing both
cotton and peas.-L. Ii. Turner, IN
/. Farm and Ranch.
The Van Buren press., 1897-12-25
FARMER AND PLANTER.
SPECIALITY FARMING.
WIN Diversity Better tho Condition of tho
Farmer


Farmer?
AS It has been some time since ! got
ny last ilogging for advocating special
farming, | have again summoned sui1i-
cient courage to speak out in meetin'
on the subject. The present price of
cotton is about FIVE cents per pound.
This we all know is not remunerative,
for the labor and cost of production on
an average yield or average cost of pro-
duction. But what can we do? Shall
we diversity our money crop? Will
this better our condition? OF course
we should raise all we can use at
home of all the crops that do
reasonably well ON our soil, but
should we raise a supply to sell of
all these crops2 | say no; we can not
afford to, because our ability is limit
ed. We can only do certain amount
of work, and there is bound to be one
crop that is naturally adapted to our
soil and climate and will yield larger
return for the labor expended than any
other. This whatever it is, should be
the one selected for our money crop;
then the entire farm should be laid out
with a view TO make and gather the
crop with the least possible cost. We
should then make ourselves familiar
with its habits of growth, so as to be
able to get a maximum yield. l be-
lieve there are plenty of farms in Texas
that are natural cotton farms, and cot
ton should be the money crop on such
farms. If the owner of such farms
would make a business of raising cot
ton, and study their business we'll, and
unload their minds of the mul titude of
cares connected with mixed farming,
they could make cotton farming both
pleasant and profitable, even at five
cents per pound. Then there are
others that are natural stock farms;
others suited to truck farming, while
some are best adapted to horticulture,
or poultry, or dairying; and there is
enough TO be learned about either
branch of farming TO consume a mans
entire time if he would be eminentlY
successfnl, and there is eompetit
enough in either branch to demand
skill and economy if he would make
his business profitable. There is more
competition in halfway farming than
in skilled labor, and it is easier to ae-
quire skill in the production of one
crop than to push half dozen to an
average yield and the average crop
never pays. Cor. Farm and Ranch.
The Van Buren press., 1897-12-25
A PERTINENT QUESTION.
VIII Green Oats, Rye, Etc. or Ripc Cow
Peas Kill Pigs2


There is scarcely food which hogs
are fed that some people do not think
will kill hogs One asks US If green
oats, another green rye, and still an
other if ripe peas will kill their hogs.
Many other foods are at times ac-
cused of being the cause of death in
southern hogs. This seems quite re-
markable, us all these foods are most
excellent for hogs, and are no more
likely to kill them than others which
are considered harmless.
The luck of knowledge pertaining TO
the eausation OF disease is truly Won
derful, and in the absence of correclin-
formation on the subject, the food is
conveniently charged with the mis-
chief. just the other day the writer
was told by a farmer that he would
not turn his hogs into that pea field
because it would kill them" We re-
marked that probably nine-tenths of
the pork which was raised on the farms
of Canada when we were boy was
made on peas, and that we never heard
of such a thing at that time Now,
hungry hogs turned into field of cow
peas will Sometimes kin themselves,
but we protest against this being
charged against the peas. If the hogs
were turned into corn field in the
same condition death would OCCASION
ally result The point which demands
notice is that sudden change in the
food, especially from no food to an un-
limited supply OF rich food like peas,
is almost certain TO derange the dges-
! ton, and in some cases death will re-
\ suit.
1t may, therefor be positively stated
that green oats, green rye, ripe peas
or any other food of that sort will not
only kill the pigs, but if fed with ordi-
nary common sense will do them good.
Southern Farm Gazette.
The Van Buren press., 1897-12-25

he placed the instrument in position,
drew the bow, and there "in the still
of the evening let her talk to him"
He was mountain boy himself, and
as the first soft notes fell on the air,
plaintiye and piercing like the cry of
the whippoorwill in early spring, he
felt the youth stir in him and heard
again the far call of the hills.
He saw the log cabin high up against
the side of the mountain, where the
laurel and the sumac grew and the
ash made bright the scene with its dark
fruit; where the breeze came laden with
the odor of pine from the forest, and
the birds touched the highest notes in
their shrill treble
He saw the boy with his sturdy limbs,
his bold blue eyes and his waving hair,
barefoot and seantily clad, searching
for the earliest berries in summer and
the first nuts in the fall-free, joyous,
innocent, happy.
He followed him in the Tong, long
thoughts" of a lad across the distant
crest of the Devils Backbone" and
wove with him mystic dramas amid the
shades of the haunted rayine.
He sat with him at the feet of the
mountain lass and listened while he
poured the crude poetry of his awak-
ened soul into the sensitive instrument
which alone could interpret the mys-
terry within him.
He stood beside him and watched the
blazing pine knots roar up the cabin
chimney. while the old folks in the cor
ner looked at each other across the boy
with that surreptitious tenderness of
the eyes which takes place in those
grown gray, and sure of each other, of
the more open demonstration
He saw the whole % years of clean,
humble living; the unaspirine, pastoral
life of the southern mountaineer. COM
panioned of nature; simple, fearless.
brave; seornful of the false, reverent of
the true; tender to weakness. fierce to
wrong; and, alasi uncontrolled as the
elements around him; crushing, in some
mad output of strength, the obstacle in
his way. to stand afterwards in awful
recoil before the unknown potentiali-
ties of his own organism.
Full and swelling were the strains
| that issued from the throat of the violin
as it told this idyl of the hills; passion
ate harmonies pulsating like the over
charged heart; long tender, yearning
notes; sweet, caressing adantes; the
very spirit of love in the guise of sound
The Van Buren press., 1897-12-25

will, almost unknowing, find bitter dis
possessed by sweet, and warmth
usurping cold therein. This world is
very fair and charity makes it all the
fairer when its glow reminds us of ''the
long, long night that death shall last" "
Christmas feeling makes the most of
the now. 1t atones for the after-the
deluge or the dark. 1t is real life to
live, if but for a week, day, moment,
in full sympathy of helping with our
fellows. If we can make others forget
the past we may forget our own. If
we can but give to others little of the
antidote of kndliness for the poison of
the present we shall find our own to-day
less hopeless. And the future is formed
of the spirit that animates to-day. The
real feeling of Christmas must blossom
into acts.-Detroit Free Press.
The Van Buren press., 1897-12-25
HERE AND THERE.

"A contemporary warns against
using for poultry food grain damaged
by insects, age or fire. lie goes too
far; grain damaged by fire" that is,
roasted or half roasted, is improved as
poultry food 1t is simply cooked in
stead Of raw.
-"The best time to sell eggs" says
a poultry journal, "is when they are
scarce" We believe the best time to
sell is when you have a surplus. 1t is
only bad time to sell when eggs are
so scarce you have none to spare.
There are good and bad landlords
and good and bad tenants. Good land
lords have good tenants and the con.
trary is equally true. The time will
come when the bad landlord will not
have bad tenants-he will have none.
With good care mules can be broken
and worked easier than horses, aud
farmers will find it pays to keep two
or three good mares to be bred to jacks,
that they may constantly have teams
they can work or readily sell.
A characteristic of the Jersey COW
worthy of notice is that she has an
adaptability TO all climates The sum
mer heat OF the south and the rigor-
GUS winters OF Canada alike seem 70
have no effect upon her usefulness.
The man who al ways has some-
thing little different and little bet
ter than anybody else has no dili.
Guilty in disposing OF his surplus al ~
satisfactory price. This applies as
forcibly in fruitgrowing as in other
lines OF business.
To call snow the poor mans MAJ
nure is not all nonsense. 1t is cover,
and. therefore mulch, and con gerts.
the plant food ia the soil into forms
readily assimilated, although it adds
no new elements. This should at least
be a hint that other coverings should
serve the same purpose,
The Van Buren press., 1897-12-25
The Farm Team

Any strong. steady team will dogood
work in breaking, bedding or harrow
ing, and the faster the team the more
work will be done in given time.
The turning plow, however, must be
adapted to the speed, for while some
will give too much twist with fast
team, they will do the work just right
with team of less speed. The best
plow team is one that can be made to
go either fast or slow, as the work de-
mands, and has surplus of power TO
insure steadiness. Good work can not
be done with team continually ON a
strain, nor much, even of bad work.
1t never pays to overload "A team.
whether in plow or wagon.
The Van Buren press., 1897-12-25

Reaching trembling hand out to his
dumb friend as though for confidence,
he whispered, hoarsely:
"Guvner, what did she tell you fer
me? What did my old fiddle tell you?"
The governor waited for a moment,
perhaps to steady his voice; then, lay
ing both hands on the shoulders of the
other, his eyes reading with a fathers
tenderness the piteous, expeetant face,
he said
"Abner, she saNs-the old fiddle says
that you can GO back to the noun
tans. And, my man, may God go with
you!"
The convict stood for a moment like
one struck dumb, a womanish pallor
overspreading his cheek; then, with a
cry which his listener never forgot, he
threw his arms around his liberator and
sobbed like heartbroken child.
And the governor was not ashamed To
admit that something frightened in his
throat and broke out at his eyes. too
Nora C. Franklin, in Lippineott's Maga-
zine.
The Van Buren press., 1897-12-25
ITS TRUE SPIRIT,
Christmas the Festival of Child
hood.

Christmas is the festival of childhood.
Whose would enjoy it truly must be in
heart even as little child. Its ecstasies
are in self-forgetfulness, in the better
ment of others. Its highest celebration
is in helping our neighbors to be happy
and thus sharing our happiness with
them. There is no happiness compar-
able to love, and the happiness grows
greater as the love embraces more and
more our fellowbeings. That is the
best Christmas time in which one feels
most acutely the aetuality of kinship
with all the world. 1t is the child that
is the real democrat, for, as Emerson
has it, he makes children of all the
adults that gather around him, levels
them to his own simplicity. The man
who has the child-heart is the man
whose interest in himself is most
merged into interest for his fellow
creatures. Though one may have felt
sin and shame and sorrow he may as
suage them all in the promotion of the
happiness of others. Love is the only
anodyne, and giving it out it returns
upon US as manifold as the objects upon
which it is bestowed. That man who
awakens the Christmas spirit in the
hearts about him will find it subtly
stealing from them to his own, and
The Van Buren press., 1897-12-25

If you the merrlest Christmas would enjoy
If you the deepest happiness would feel
A genuine jollity without alloy,
A happiness continuous and real,
Though paradoxical, l will agree,
'Tis yet truth that no one can gainsay
The greater will your own enjoyment be
The more the happiness you give away
Boston Courier.
The Van Buren press., 1897-12-25
Ont of Senson.

She does not interest us now,
The woman with a past;
We care not why, nor when nor how
She got herself thus classed.
But in the merry Christmas days,
When all the world is pleasant,
We're looking for, with anxious gaze,
The woman with a present.
Chicago Record.