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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-15
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Experienced 1hursday the worst cohha-
grafton In It's History.
Knoxville. Tenn. April s. Tho most
disastrous fire ever experienced in
Knoxville occurred this morning. The
entire block on Gay street between
Union and Reservoir streets, with the
exception of the McGhee Building, the
longest and handsomest block in the
city, is mass of ruins, and the loss Is
estimated at nearly million dollars.
Several people were slightly injured,
the most serious being Joe McMillin,
who had leg broken. WA
The fire was discovered about 4 o'clock
in the wholesale store OF the McNulty
Grocery Go. by n porter OF the Knox
Hotel. which adjoined the grocery. 4
general alarm was turned in, and all
the local fire companies were soon on
the scene. Their efforts proved futile,
however, and the flames spread rapidly.
Among the heaviest losers are I:
Daniel Briscne & Co., Wholesale dry
goods; Sterchi Bros. Wholesale aud
retail furniture; Marble City Hat Co, /.
Wholesale hats; A. y. Laher. dry goods /;
Haines & Co., wholesale shoes; s. P.
Newman & Co., printers; Cullen. New
man g. Co., printers; W. W. Woodruff
q Co., wholesale hardware; Henneger,
Doyle g. Gu. Wholesale bats and shoes
Sanford, amoerlain & Albers. " hole-
sale drugs; Knox Hotel and McNulty
Grocery Go. Many smaller establish
ments, among them three livery stables
in the rear of the burned block, were
destroyed. An explosion of dynamite
in Woodruff's hardware store shattered
every window on Gay street.
A portion OF the Chattanooga Fire
Department arrived at o'clock. and
rendered valuable assistance. s{.
Shirley. Mass, April s.--The FREE
donia mill of the Sampson Cordage Go.
was destroyed by fire to-day. Tho mill
contained large stock Of rope and
cordage material and expensive ma
chinery, and the loss will amount to
f,,1l,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-15

Samuel i. Morris and Ida NJ. Pierce,
both of this city, were married last night
week at the district parsonage, No.
30I West Seventh street, by Presiding
Elder L. E. Barrett
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-15
CURIOUS PERSONAL NAMES
Queer Combinations Used
to Designate People.
THE PURlTANS' QUAINT TITLES
Illustrations OF Parents In
ventiveness.

OnsprinS Condemned to Lifelong Ridicuie
for the Sake of Indulging in What Was
Thought to Be u witticism-Wretched
Infants Upon whom the Stigma of Their
Origin Was Affixed by BUNDLES.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-15
Transportation of nteycles Free.


The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. an.
nouncss that on and after April Tth,
1897, bicycles will be checked by bag.
gage agents and carried in the baggage
cars OF the company, when accompanied
on the same train by the owners, free
OF cost, provided the passenger present
ing bicycle for carriage has no bag
gage; otherwise the bicycle will he
charged for at regular rates. This
arrangement applies 10 all the lines OF
the Pennsylvania railroad system east
OF Pittsburg and Erie.
The action OF the Pennsylvania Rail.
road Co. in agreeing TO accept bicycles
as baggage has been brought about
solely through the influence of the
League of American Wheelmen, and as
it gives additional advantages to every
rider of wheel il should result in n
still more rapid increase in the mem
bership of that organization which
has done so much to establish, protect
ana defend tbs rights of cyciars. This
is but one of the important matters the
league has in charge. Tnere has been
legislation favorahly acted upon in
New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,,
New jersey and a few other States,
competing railroads 10 carry bicycles
as free baggage, and as the Pennsyl-
rania Railroad Co. has issued general
order that bicy ules will be carried free
hereafter on all the company's lines
east of Pittsburg and Erie many wheel
men will receive quite monetary ad
vantage, After careful investigation
the company has decided 10 throw open
its baggage cars to bicycles for trans
portation without cost. No conditions
are attached, except tho wholly unim-
portant one, that there shall be nc
liability for stolen or injured lamps.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-15
THE PAINTER.

SOPHIA McBlain of this city has been
granted an original widows pension,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-22
No Cause For Alarm,

d will not be the part of wisdom for
the people in Montgomery, nor in the
northern or central parts of the state.
ience of yellow fever i'm Montgomery.
The whole state sympathizss with Mont
gomery. as 1T does with every section
that is so unfortunate as to be afflicted
with much dreaded and too deadly dis
ease. The season Is now 50 far advanced
that The life of the yellow jack in amy
part of Alabama, and especially in Mont
gomery, must necessarily be of short
duration. In the natural course of events
it can be but few days more until frost
will have come, and frost Is the success
full enemy of yellow jack.
The people of Montgomery are, Ito all
appearances, equal to the emergency and
fever is making but little Roadway there.
The trade of that city cannot be very
materially affected and it is hoped that
ct will not be affected at all. Nontgom-
cry has many progressive and wide
awake citizens who are too sensible to
allow the fever to reach such point that
thsir commerce will be but slightly af-
fected, If at ALL
1t is now almost the first of Novem-
Der, and for many years past frost has
made its appearance there oftentfmes
before the close of October. 1t can be
depended upon that the citizens of Mont
gomery will not permit much spread of
the fever. 1t is the first time yellow
fever has made ITS appearance there in
a great many years. and it is to be
hoped that 1t will never rear its head in
that or amy other locality i'm the state
| again. Montgomery is a beautiful city.
! Perhaps the cleanest and best cared for
| of any city of its size in the south. 1t
| Is unlike Mobile and New Orleans. The
| fever will find but Little to feed upon in
| Montgomery. There is no cause for any
alarm. Let the people be guided by sem
sible rules of diet and cleanliness and
it will be but few days until the fever
in Montgomery will have been stamped
out -l-I..ru5 n z#zH
| 1t is a shame indeed that the citizens
of the capital should Gnave been misled
| by the board of health. Upon that body
must rest the responsibility, not for the
appearance OF yellow fever. but for THE
| panicky condition of the people.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-22
AMerited RECOGNITION.

The association of general passenger
agents of this country in st. Louis on
Wednesday conferred a high honor upon
a very worthy member of that associa-
ton. It was in the election of Col. w.
A. Turk, general passenger agent of the
Southern railway, with headquarters at
Washington, to the presidency of the
association. Col. Turk ranks with the
best of the general passenger agents
in the United States. He has for years
been the guiding genius of the South
ern's passenger traffic, and each year
has shown perceptible increase in its
receipts over the previous.
A general passenger agents worth to
a railway system is measured by the re-
ceipts to the passenger department.
Col. Turk has demonstrated to his supe-
rior officers his ability, and it is doubtful
If there is a man connected with that
great system who is more popular with
those representing the monied interests
of the road, as well as the travelling
public, as is Col. Turk. Col Turk is not
only fine passenger man, but he is a
man of very fine mind. He is stu
dent of economic questions, and has
contributed no little to the literature
of the country upon these interesting
subjects. Col. Turk is also good
speaker. AS an after dinner speaker
Col. Turk stands well to the front among
the many bright speakers at Washing
ton.
The honor conferred upon him by the
American Passenger Agents associa-
tion was not unmerited. He deserved
the presidency, ard no man will ever
have filled that chair who will reflect
more credit upon the association than
the general passenger agent of the
Southern railway. All hail Col. Turk.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-22
In a Serious Vein.

Within the past few days death has
claimed two prominent men, who in
their different spheres We're famous and
powerful, and the favorites of fortune
These men worked and exerted all their
talents and energiss for many long years
to achieve certain objects, and in the
eyes of the world they were successful.
But did they enjoy l.fe--were they
happy?
These questions cannot be answered
until the fact is ascertain.d that they
did more good than evil in the course of
their lives, and utilized their powers and
resources to help mankind The poor
man who lives and dies without ever
having at any one time as much as $10O
to his name is happy man if he does
his duty; makes smiles take the place of
tears where he goes; feeds the hungry
and cheers the sorrowing with his ready
sympathy.
There are selfish millionaires who,
when they lie down to die, would gladly
change places with such men.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-22
A Great Drawback.

Southern cities and towns make gr at
mistake in not paying more attention
TO their history and statistics. Frequent
ly capitalists and men of enterprise
stop "a day or two i'm a southern COM
munity and are favorably impressed, but
when thsy ask for information on certain
points the leading citizens to whom they
apply give vague and unsatisfactory an
swers and are unable ito furnish definite
facts and figures.
The visitors give 1t up as a hopeless
task. They want some up-to-da te liter
ature to take home with them and show
ito others who are looking southwark,
but they cannot find anything in that
lime. Every Southern city and town OF
any prominence will find DIT a good in
vestment TO employ bureau. COMMITTEES
or competent person to look after its his
tory and statistics.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-22
The Next Exploit.

Since the New York Journals daring
feat in releasing the pretty Cuban girl,
people are wondering what the news
pap=rs will next undertake. Editor
Harmsworth, of London, seems to be in
earnest about his expedition to the south
pole.
1t is to be hoped that he will send it.
There have been many expeditions sent
in the direction of the north pole, but
very few have ever sailed the other way.
Possibly, the region around the south
pole is full of surprises. Some scientists
believe that it has a mild climate and
is inhabited by an interesting race of
people.
If the Harmsworth explorers succeed
in bring ing X finite tidlngs from that land
of mystery it will be a splendid achieve
ment, and the London Journalist will be
one of the worlds benefactors. 1t is his
turn next
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-22
JAGS IN SILK AND SATIN.
The Drink Habit Among Women Assuming
Alarming Proportions.
From the Pittsb,ure Disnatch.

From the PittsbWg Dispatch.
New York, Oct 18.-Two tailor-made
women entered the restaurant. 1t is
part and parcel of a hotel popular with
the sex, especially successful actresses
and those buds of society who take de-
light in venturing upon dangerous
ground. After discussing the menu,
they gave an order to the waiter. This
spokeswomans face was artistically
made up but beneath the grease paint,
the penciling and the powder one could
trace telltale lines The doctor who sat
beside me, whispered, Did you hear the
order those women gave? No. Well.
L did The elderly one called for Man
haitian cocktail and the younger one
suggested that an absinthe frappe would
be a better pick-me-up. And yet some
people argue that the drink habit is not
on the increase among women We
fingered and took notes. The Partisan
poison was disposed of quickly. A quart
of claret washed down the soup and
fish, and quart of campaign ffoated the
bird and the salad that followed in due
time. The women were not actresses,
and they had every appearance Of wealth
and refinement.
And such depressing sights are not at
all unusual here. Out-of-town folk who
are not used to seeing women drink long
and deep in public places are apt to be
shocked frequently If they visit the
swell restaurants and cafes, and keep
tabs on the doses tossed off by fair wo-
men. On a roof garden last summer
saw one woman drain fifteen glasses of
IA will wi, fh.>
table. One who saunters among the gay
throngs in the all-night restaurants after
the theater Will se+ enough to satisfy
himself that the end-of-the-centurt girl
is neither a moderate drinker nor tee
totaler-at least in this town; but ths
saddest sights are those frequently met
with on the surface and 81" trains in
the early hours after the resorts patron
lied by the giddy and reckless turn down
the bright lights and prepare for the adj
vent of the scrubbers and busters Then
it is that women, young and old, are
helped aboard, some to sing or laugh,
some to sleep or STAR, and all in various
stages of fnebrity The native, who is
accustomed to this phase of metropolitan
life, pays NO attention to the "jagsi' dn
silks and satins.
The thoughtless youth smiles, and the
innocent girls in thdr teens giggle or
snuggle up closer to their scowling mann
mas or frowning papas. The stranger
Is the only one who is apt to comment
on the condition of the feminine diners
out who are homeward bound, some
alone, some with chaperones, some with
sober men and some leaning on supports
as shakey as themselves. But this is a
free city, and he or she who pit,es audi
bly viii never do 1t again.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-22


ern operatives are competent and salts
factory. It is so. too. in the iron and
steel industries. From the ranks of the
working classes in the south the very
best artisans and laiborers may be had
in numbers sufficient to satisfy the de-
niand.
The south does not need to import
thousands of cheap Foreigners Of the
worst and toughest class. The laborers
here at home are bright, Industrious
and peaceful, and very few of them
have ever shown amy disposition to con-
spire together for the purpose of enforc-
inf unreasonable demands.
The northern newspapers will have to
hunt up. better reasons than they have
yet given for not establishing an armor
plate plant here. Their last argument in
regard to southern labor is the weakest
one yet advanced. 1t would be an easy
mater to reprint columns of testimony
from northern manufacturers showing
that southern labor is perfectly satisfac-
tory, and in some respects is preferable
to the labor of the northern Industrial
csnters
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-22
IR0NICAL IFS.

From the Chicago News.
- If you want a thing well done tell the
swaiter to bring it In rare.
If kissing went out of fashion no girl
would care to be considered stylish.
If some women We're to cast their
bread upon the waters 1t would obstruct
navigation.
If a man would live to be ripe old
age all he has to do is to keep right on
living.
If men were built like pianos tbs re
would be more square and upright pso-
pie in this wicked world.
If man has the right stuff in him it
is bound to come out. That's what ma kes
some mems noses so red.
If woman would always write the
postscript first 1t would save her the
trouble of writing the letter.
If you can't solve the problsm of HE
go to your druggist. He can always
give you some kind of solution.
IF you would write a successful novel
select for the hero a man with future
and for the heroine a woman with a
past So
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-22
Ministers and Testimonials,

The Boston Transcript i'm rather en-
phatic editorial has the following
A well known clergyman of this city
says over his own signature that GER
tain patented medicine, 'if widely and
wisely used, would relieve nervousness,
soothe restlessness, reduce sickness,
strengthen the body, invigorate the
mind and add happiness to life" This
is an especially good word to say for
alcohol, for 1t is only the alcohol in the
medicine referred to that has any medi-
cinal value, In the opinion of the officers
OF The commonwealth who have caused
it to be analysed. This medicine, or
tonic, contains Fl per cent. of alcohol,
and is purely a stimulant, the same as
is the glass of whisky which the UNI
sophisticated people who drink their al
cohol under another name regard with
holy horror. 1t is a puzzle to persons
having conSciences alow a minister of
the gospel can allow himself to recon-
mend any universal cure-all, knowing
a'S he ought to know that NO combira-
ton of drugs Is equally good for all per-
sens; but when a minister of truth goes
false pretence recommends his parishon-
ders to take to dram-drinking, language
cannot readily be found adequately to
characterize the enormity.
If alcohol is really so beneficial as
| some of the teachers of heaIthful h,!bits
have us believe from their Unsolicited"
praise of alcoholic drinks under mis-
leading titles. why not remove the bane
entirely from the sale Of intoxica nts,
and have 1t frankly announced every
where, not excepting the pulpit or the
Sunday s5lhoon. that mum, gin, brandy,
whisky, etc, "if widely and wisely used,
would relieve nervousness soothe rest
ressness. reduce sickness, strengthen the
body. invigorate the mind, and add hap
pineSS to life?
The minister in question may not have
known that the medicine contained a
drop of alcohol. Many preachers are 50
much absorbed in religious matters that
they ray no attention to the common
thing OF life. They are easily deceived.
and they are among the largest pur-
chasers OF patent medicines.
They are Inclined to believe the state
merits of others, and when they read
| that medicine is purely vegetable and
non-alcoholic they accept this as a fact,
and even when they find that tire stuff
exhilerates or partially intoxicates then
they are slow to suspect the real
| cause.
| Instead of jumping on this minister
about his endorsement of an alcoholic
| tonic, the Transcript would have done
better to advise all dlvinss to be careful
about giving endorsements. Testimonials
| and letters OF Recommendation gener-
! ally. These good men know little of the
world ard its ways, and when they are
asked for testimonials they should ask to
be excused. and advice those soliciting
! them to go to citizens who are M re in
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-22
OCTOBER PASSES BY.

From Harper's Bazaar.
The wood seems for a pageant dressed.
What mean these banners 'gainst tho
sky,
In gold and red blown east and west?-
The world receives a golden guest;
Behold October passes byl
The splendid heather princess. bold
In conscious beauty, through the world
Makes gracious progress, be it told.
Filing for her feet cloth of gold;
Be crimson banners wide unfurled.
Down with the churl whose graceles2
tongue
Is slow the royal guest to greet;
For signing, Here Creep banners hung.
When April passed, and upward sprung
Anemones beneath her feet!
What though the banners once were green
That once anothers feet did press
With lighter step the meadows sheen?
Proclaim the glorious heather queen,
Acknowledge her graciousness.
Hnzza! Long live our royal gueet!-
Crhou tongue-tied fool, repeat theDcry
1 tell thee too hide ON my breast
A pale anemone is pressed)-
Behold October passes by
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-22
VARIOUS PENS.

Longfellow's handwriting was bold.
frank back hand.
Charlotte Brortes handwriting ap-
peared to have been traced with a needle.
ThackeGsys pennanship was marvel
ously neat, but so small that 1t could not
always be read with comfort by any but
microscopic eyes.
Capt. Marryat's handwriting was so
fine that Whenever Lhe copylst rested
from his labors he was obliged to stick
a pin where he left off in order to find
the place again.
Napoleon's handwriting was not only
illegfble; it is said that his letters from
Germany to Josephine were at first taken
for rough maps of the seat of war
Carlyle reconstructed with pen ard gall
what his mind and eyes had seen and in
the patient but Grabbed and oddly en-
phasied handwriting much of his tenn
permanent may be read.
"A reckless compositor one day went to
Jules Janin and besougiht him to deci-
pher some pages of his own manuscript.
The great man replied that he would
rather rewrite than attempt to read OVER
again what he had once written.
eign, could have been worse than Hor-
ace Greeley. Goodness" said a new
composltor to whom a, ''tal1e' of the edi-
tors copy had been handed, "if Bel
shazzar had seen this writing on the
wall he would have been more terrified
than he was"
Among living authors, w. d. Howells,
Bret Harte, Andrew Lang, William Nor
ris, e. Burke Collins, Frederick Locker
and George Macdonald write hands that
are plain and legible and often beautiful
without amy strongly distinctive charac-
teristics.
Charts Dickens writing was very
minute and his habit of writing with
blue ink upon blue paper, with frequent
interlinea'tions and cross lines, made his
copy a burden alike to compositor and
proof-reader.
Among the authors of the past, Gray.
Moore, Leigh Hunt Wa1tsr Scott and
Buchanan Read possessed a pleasing,
running hand which failed to express
any ds<&Dad individuality.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-22
Southern Labor.

The Baltimore Manufacturers Record
gives the New York Herald some things
to think about in the following:
- Two or three of our northern friends
seem to be in perpetual state of mind
about southern labor. They approach 1t
from different directions, but all Of them
mailMest the deepest solcitude in one
way and another. The New York Her
aid, for instance, objects to the location
of government armor plant in the south
because the proposed sites do not appeal
to steel-workers reared in the north and
1t fears that the result would be an i'm
portation of foreign mechanics or DELAYS
and losses inherent in unskitled produc-
ton.
This is so thoughtful on tie part of the
Herald. There should be stop to me
unvarying practice of the south during
She past hundred years of importing for
elgn mechanics and laborers. 1t is amaz-
Eng that 1t will employ Huns, Poles and
Slavs in it's coal mines, Irish in munich
pal works and French Canadians in its
mills, leaving the north to employ only
Anglo-Saxon Americans in its Industries
1t should see the advantages in cultivat-
Ding the plan of Homestead Hazleton and
other centers which reduce the militia OF
the north to a matter of mere fuss, fe attn.
ers and holiday fan fare.
The Herald cannot this late in the day
raise any well-founded objection to
southern labor. Years ago the cotton
manufac .urers of the north talked In thG I
strain. but they now admit that south
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-22

Mr. N, a struggling lawyer in a small
town in Ohio, received a call from a
Farmer who wanted legal advice.
Mr.. N. took down a much-used volume
from his small bookcase and gave the
required advice, for which he charged
the modest sum of So.
His clfsnt haEded him a So bill With
a troubled look Mr.. N. flushed in the
face as he passed his fingers neryously
through his pockets and his embarrass-
ment increased as he continued his
search among the papers on his desk.
Well" said he, taking down the law
book again and turning over the pages,
'Ill give you two more dollars worth
of advice"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-22

A weekly paper in New York is con-
Quoting the ballot plan Of ascertaining
what man the people up there would be
most willing to be sent to Klondike and
newer return The four receiving the
highest number of votes are Joe Pulitzer,
Thomas c. Platt, Anthony Comstock AID
Butcher Weyler In the order namsd.
Pulitzer leads Plat one vote, and DIS
tances Weyler by IL. 1t is a Gear case
of Pulitzer being IT..