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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-10-13


BY the margin of the woodland .-
Where the fields come sloping down,
Crimson stains. like CORY blotches,
On the forepiece of crown,
Clint and gliinmer on the foliage
Of the maple and the pine,
Marking where the gum and sumac
lnterniing.c and entwine.
A wall of ieafy verdure ,s
All the summer they have stood r.
To guard the sylvan pathway,
Brave sentinels Of wood. XII
Their robes OF green untarnished
By the sunshine or by rain,
Till autumn. subtle artist,
Lays Oil her crimson stain. -
Where lately grew the violet,
And eglantine was seen,
Where black-eyed Sue coouetted.
The aston now is queen.
The irop weeds along the marsh
In slumber seem to nod,
The pasture fields grow yellow .a-t
With royal golden rod. .4e
A dreamy silence in the grove. W
Soft whispers in the pine;
The Bob Whites love notes echo
From his covert in the vine. I'D.
The yellow sunshine in the grass
The skyline bending clear;
a thousand tokens, plain as words
Proclaim tina. autumn's here.
Washington Post.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-10-13
REsoJUri0Ns


<Aoopteu nj tne meetinE Ot the mActitntstA
of the Harlan a HoIiinasworth Co.
AT a meeting, held by the employees
Of the machine department of the Har-
Ian & Hollingsworth CO., the following
resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, As it has pleased the AL
mighty, in his infinite wisdom, to re-
move from our midst our foreman,
James Carmichael; and
Whereas. The machinists have lost a
sincere friend and an earnest worker in
their behalf; be it
Resolved, That we tender to his be.
reaved and sorrowing family our heart
felt sympathy and coincidence in this
their hour of affection; be ii further
Resolved, As mark of respect to the
memory OF our worthy and beloved fore
man, that u copy of these resolutions
be suitably framed and be presented TO
the family of James Carmichael, our
late and respected foreman.
Thomas Holt,
William Fredericks,
Hewson E. Lannan,
Committee.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-10-13

Mrs. Mary @. Sloan, widow of Samuel
A.sSloan and sister of the late John
A. Alderdice, formerly Mayor Of Will
mirgton and also State Senator from
this city, died at the residence Of her
daughter, Mrs. Isabel A. Mallon (Bab \.
Mo. 475 Fourth avenue, New York City.
last Saturday. She was 65 years old, and
came OF an old Delaware Quaker family,
Two sons and q daughter survive her. \.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-10-13
NOTICE, - TO THE HONORABLE

= Juugeb OIL the Court OF General Sessions al
inc state Of Delaware In and for New Castle
county. We, the undersigned. fieehoIders and
respectable citizens Of the >chool disricts, Nos.
a ,,. ana 81 ked Lion hundred, do hereby certify
inat Nicnaei Milifgan, the owner al occupant az
the Store situated at Delaware City in the s.oi ntv
aud State aforesaid. ana described in his spr.ii.
east s, ana who Is an applicant for license ON
h ,I l, Inc slst dayof November, A. d., 1895,
being the next term Of said court, for the nnle
o. Intoxicating liquors In quantities not loss than
one-hail gallon therein. not 10 be drunk on the
premises. he being license retailer OF goods
wares wares and merchandise: the aggregate cost
vaiue OF his stock constantly kept on hand for
SAFE u not less than Ave hundred dollars: he Ia
man Of fun age. OF sobriety and good moral
character, that such sale OF Intoxicating Iio,,ors
q, sald place Is necessary to accommodate The
pubic, unit he la the owner Of said house. An 4
the Following respectable citizens Of snid Scho ii
d,stricts, as least six OF whom arc substantiai
froeholders Of said School disirluts rocomms M
The said application. VIE. 'N
j. Amos collins, Coo A. cicavar ~
WilliGm T. Neeff, john LanS'
John q. Borger, William Z rnx,a.o.
Geo. IA. Foatd, Goo N. Brighs 7
~, " Snnrs, Albert l. rwan,
Isaac II. Ubli, -'''''''
ocils,,0.212 MICHAEL, sIIJILraAN
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-10-13

New York, Oct. 1i.-Congressman
Lemuel Ell Quigg is TO be opposed for re-
election by Frank Livingstone Warner,
VINO served with the Naval Reserves on
inc United States cruiser Yankee during,
the war with Spain. Warner, last night,
announced himself as an independent
nepuolican candidate. William Astor
Chanier is the Democratic candidate. \
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-10-13

London, Eng, Oct. IA dispatch
from Pairs to the Exchange Telegraph
Co. says the United States and Spanish
peace commissioners are at entire vari-
ance regarding the question Of the dis
position of the Philippine Islands, and
that they have referred the matter to-
their respective governments.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-10-13

Joseph Brine of No. l3I Liberty
street, while at work in the yards Of
the Harlan a. Hollingsworth Co., on
Monday afternoon, was burned in the
abdomen by a hot rivet. He was
taken to his residence in the Phoenix
ambulance.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-10-13

London, Eng, Oct. 10.--The failure
OF Ernest Orger Lambert, financier
in the Trafalgar Building, has been
announced; His liabilities are esti-
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-10-13

Life insurance ia good thing but health in
surance, BY keeping the blood pure with Hoods
sarsaparilia, Is still better.
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

who went to the Klondike on a pleas
ure trip. Mrs. Hitchcock says when
she left Dawson the death rate
equalled five a day. She thinks anoth-
er season will demonstrate the neces-
sity of shifting all the business and
much of the residence portion of Daw-
son to what is known as West Daw-
son. whose sanitary conditions and
surroundings are declared to be far
superior to those of Dawson proper
Commodore Watson, who recently
arrived at San Francisco from the
east in an interview, in speaking of
the:men under his command, said that
though most of them were practically
green yet in an incredibly short space
of time they learned their duty and
conducted themselves like old and
tried seamen. AS to Admiral Cervera,
he said: 81 cannot understand this
so-called Spanish honor. My fleet was
composed of converted yachts, small
gunboats and motley collection Of
craft. Cervera knew of it, yet he
failed to attack me. I think it was
rank cowardice on his part. However,
throughout the war the Spanish sell
dom failed to display their particular
perfection along these lines"
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

The astonishing rapidity with which
the mechanical arts are advancing In
America is illustrated by the develop
ment of the use Of compressed air, es-
pecially as applied to hand tools. Tools
driven by compressed air have largely
supplanted even the simplest mechani-
cal devices in the railroad shops Of Chi
cago. Screws are driven by this pow
er; nuts are turned; holes in steel and
wood are drilled, and in many other
ways has the use OF pneumatic tools
become not only a convenience but a
necessity. They can be handled with
ease and perform the work more quickly
and with less expenditure of labor than
by the old process. Mans power Of
adapting the forces of nature to his
ends has no limit apparently. Great
strides already have been made, but
It is no unwise assumption to say that
no more than beginning has been
made. The marvels Of invention are
bewildering In variety and scope, but
still man is not content and leaps from
triumph to triumph.
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

Grating with. them and working disin.
terestedly to common end; he is i'm.
patient of organiza ton and discipline
and so, as some one has remarked, he
Is warlike without being military. We
may add that he is filled with national
pride without being really patriotic.
He still has in his blood something Of
the wild desert instinct of the Arab
and the love of personal independence
of the Goth. "You would rather sus-
pect," says an old English author,
that they did but live together for
fear of wolves" AS public servant
the Spaniard Is likely to take for his
motto, "Apres moi lie deluge," or, as
the Spaniard puts 1t, Eel ultimo mono
Sc ahoga" (the last monkey gets drown.
pd(
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28
A BAD COMMISSARY.
A Los Angeles Soldier Writes Of Duty
at Manila.

There is no romance, according to
Frank Annie, in doing garrison duty
at Manila.
Annie enlisted at Los Angeles dur
ing the late war as private in Bat
terry H of the Third United States ar
tillery. In letter from the Philip
pine islands dated September 13, he
writes home as follows:
''The weather is very hot. We have
over $50 sick in the hospital, and this
morning over forty answered to sick
alone. If we stay here one-fourth will
never return. The poor boys are drop
ping off about three and four a day.
expect in the course of thirty days,
that I may be on the way home. At
least the commander says it will be
at the first opportunity
Temptations here are worse than
in the states; hardships are many. We
have bread. But give me hard-tack in
stead. The bread is made by; the Chi
nese; it is sour and heavy. :.
"Our food is bad and we do not get
our rations. Some misgovernment
somewhere. Meat spoilS here in six
hours. The. coffee is not good-but it
is boiled water and that is something
%"The morning after the fight of
July 81, you should have seen us boys
shaking hands, inquiBing for this and
that comrade. Some of us cried Our
officers never said Co. 1t was Come;
boys We lost twenty-four killed and
had thirty-eight wounded. 1 thank
God that so few were killed"
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

In the event of the United States
holding any considerable number of
the islands over which the flag Is now
floating, the extent of the emigration
that will follow our conquests is a
matter Of a good deal Of interest. From
the statements made in some of the
newspapers it would appear that an
exodus Of American citizens is to take
place to Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippine Islands. Possibly this ex-
pectation may be realized to some ex-
tent, but 1t Is not probable that, how
ever much Of the wealth of the coun-
try may seek Investment in profitable
enterprises In those tropical islands,
any important migration of Americans
will follow. 1t is a law as old as the
world itself that men, plants and ami
mails are governed in their distribu-
ton by nearly the same immutable
laws, an dthat men moving over con-
tinents rarely cross the isothermal
lines that bound the places of their
birth. Take the migrations Of our
own people in this country and it is
noticeable that they have moved from
the Atlantic coast directly west.
Northern Illinois and Iowa have been
peopled from the New England States,
and the southern part of the State
from Pennsylvania, Maryland and
Kentucky. Although we have one
language, yet less than 10 per cent. OF
the people of the United States are llv-
Ing under different climatic influences
from those beneath which they were
born. Great Britain has not succeeded
in colonizing India nor South Africa
to any great extent, the army and
crown officials composing the large ma
jority Of the Englishmen in those coun-
tries. Similarity Of climate has made
the emigration to- Australia somewhat
easier. The Germans will come to
America, but they will Iot 90 to At
rica; Hollanders settle in Illinois, but
not In Borneo or Java; Italians seek
homes In the West, but not in Dahlak,
and the French go to our Southern
States, but not to Madagascar or Ton
uuin. Americans will not seek resi-
dence in Cuba or Porto Rico. Some
from the extreme south may go for a
time, but there will be no general
movement of our people to those
islands.
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

The prospect that the United States
will be compelled for some time to
have garrlsons stationed in the large
towns of Cuba has led to a careful
study of the climatic conditions and
the danger Of disease in the island now
delivered from Spanish rule. The
marine hospital service reports Of the
Spanish army for 1897 throw consd.
erable light on this subject. In all
there were some 10000 cases Of yellow
fever among the Spanish troops in
Cuba last year, while the number OF
deaths from all forms Of disease are
shown in the following tabulated state.
ment:
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

It takes a very subtle casuist to es-
tablish the wrong Of privateerlng and
the right Of capture by government in
the same brief The former may be
the more fragrant evil, and we ought
to rejoice that it has practically been
abolished, but after all it is only a
question Of degree, and the whole duty
of nations will not have been accom-
plished in this matter until they take
Hamlet's advice to the players and re-
form it altogether. If a war does not
teach us something additional Of the
duties Of humanity and endow us with
fresh wisdom. then does 1t leave us
poor indeed.
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

It Is said that the Sultan of Turkey
In declining to recognize the demands
OF the United States for indemnity fol-
outrages committed on American mis-
sion establishments In Turkey, cited
the attitude Of the United States in
some cases where claims were prefer.
red by foreign governments for dam.
ages sustained by riots. by their citi.
zens in this country. This is calculated
to set Americans to thinking. We
have been so accustomed to regarding
the unspeakable Turk as a semi-bap.
barian that 1t is something of a sur
prise to find him quoting modern in
stances and international precedent
against a claim for damages to Amer
ican citizens in Turkey, and it is a
severe jolt to our national pride to find
that these precedents have been fur
nished by ourselves. The Sultan prob
ably referred to the mobbing Of Chin
ese several years ago in Colroado, Ne
vada, Wyoming and Washington, in
which several Cinnamon were. killed
and considerable Of their property was
destroyed. Probably he also referred
to the killing ofrseveral Italians by a
mob in New Orleans, for which the
United States government disavowed
any liability in damages, though 1t did
afterwards voluntarily pay an indemn-
ity, while protesting against any obli-
cation to do so. The citing of these
cases by the Sultan was decidedly
smart, to say the least, and they may
prove embarrassing to this govern.
ment.
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

What's the use of forever 'harking
back to the forefathers," as the Detroit
Tribune well puts it, in an effort to
apply their notions to our problems.
We ask the question frankly and fear
lessly. What is the use? Those very
forefathers had to carve out new des-
tinies. But their carving was on diff
ferent battlehelds. And so must each
generation find its destined carving to
do. This nation seems to be on the
verge of discovering new and larger
areas OF responsibility and influence.
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

The American School Of Classical
Studies at Athens occupies what Is said
to be the only completely fire-proof
building in Greece. American generos-
ity and skill made the structure possl-
bic, and It's incombustible character
typifes the imperishable nature of the
Greek language, surviving in its In
comparable strength and beauty, al
though Greclan men and institutions
come and go.
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

The Spaniard is filed with that sub
de egotism engendered by medieval re-
ngion, which neglected mans relation
to nature and his fellows and fixed hts
attention solely on the problem of his
personal salvation. In the olden time
It was not uncommon for pious Span
lard on dying to defraud his earthly
creditors In order that he might . pay
masses for the welfare of his soul
"make his soul his heir" as the Span
ish say. And the Spaniard still remains
self-centered. He has little capacity
fos trusting his fellow men; for coop
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

The Turkish troops are transferring
their baggage and war material to Su-
da, on Suda Bay, east of Canea, to be
in readiness to embark on the steam
ers which have already left CONSTANT
nople to repatriate them.
A Stockholm .cablegram says the
Minister of Marine has decided to pro-
pose to the Riksdag that a credit of
over 20,000,000 kroner be voted for ma
val requirements. These will include
the purchase of three first-class IRON
clads, ammunition, torpedoes and sub
marine mines.
The Italian Minister of Marine has
renounced the sweeping naval pro-
gram involving the expenditure of
SAC, 100000 lire, and will be satisfied
with naval credits of 280,0OO,OO0 lire
1t is expected that the budget for the
current year will show a deficit of
100000 lire.
The Santa Clara Fruit Exchange
has issued circular to fruit growers
advising them to hold their dried
fruit for higher prices. The man who
has a supply of dried fruit this year
is fortunate, since the fruit crop is
generally short, not only in Califor-
MIA, but in the East.
The entire manurial product Of the
dairy herd kept at Cornell University
station was kept in barn yard dur
ing one winter. Samples were taken
from time to time, and analyzed. The
results, based upon the market price
of the then principal fertilizing ingre-
dents, showed the manure of the herd
to be worth, per cow, per day, 8.62
cents. y
The Italia Militaire announces the
imminence of hostilities between EN-
peror Menelik of Abyssinia and Ras
Mangazia, the celebrated Abyssinian
warrior and tributary.of the Negus,
who recently seized and poisoned an
eXRoy sent to him by Menelik's mas
kerf(ul wife, Queen Taitu. Ras Manga
Izia 9as askeds Italian assistance, which
has Jbeen refused.
. A Tangieesr (Morocco) dispatch says
serious disturbances have taken place
in Tafil, which is one of the greatest
subdivisions of the Empire, and is
used as place of Punishment for po-
litical Offenders! "A large body of ri
oters captured the uncle of the Sultan,
and, according to the, latest advices re-
ceived, were attempting to seize the
Sherifian treasury.
A Paris dispatch says a sale of 70
las effects was made. to satisfy the
judgment obtained against the novel
list by the handwriting experts in Ii
bel suit growing out of the Dreyfus
case. Only one article was sold, that
being a table for which Zola paid 120
frances. A we'll known journalist bid
$4,000 francs for it, this being suffl-
cient to satisfy the judgment.
In the evident expectation of rev.
olutionary demonstration, the French
government has ordered the garrisons
around Paris to send detachments of
500 men each to the capital. These re-
Inducements will amount to about
10000 men, all of whom will be sup
piled with two days rations and sixty
rounds of cartridges. The newspapers
admit there is cause for much uneasi-
ness, though they express the hope
that there will be no revolution. The
strike is spreading and threatens to
cause general stoppage of work in
the city and suburbs. The carpenters
and cabinet makers will join the
plumbers and roofers, and it is ex-
pected the railway employees will also
join.
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28
Total number Of deaths /.

AS the Spanish army last year was
estimated at from 100000 to 100000,
the figures given above will indicate
something Of the probabilities Of dis
ease and death to the American army
Of occupation, though doubtless the
proportion would be greatly diminish.
ed by the superior American sanitation
and food supply.
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

One Of the lessons of the war" will
be to secure more practical attention
to the national guard, and the keeping
Of the state soldiery in closer touch
with the government at Washington.
We shall have something, perhaps, that
will be like standing army in size, but
not having the Objectionable features. /,
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

The Washington Post says: "We can
heap some large Goals Of fire on the
French head by making fine display
at the Parish Exposition" And Incl
dentally make hot time in the old
town
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

Ultimately China will have to read
the handwriting on the Chinese wall.
The only question Is whether Russia
or England will do the writing.
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

There are lots Of people in this coun-
try who will always think Of the wife
Of the present governor general Of In
dia as the sister Of the young man who
made such sensation in wheat circles
I'm 1919
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

The cheapest freight carriage in the
world is on the Great Lakes, where a
ton Of ore is carried a thousand miles
for less than dollar. One could not
In reason expect a dollar to "go farth-
err"
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

The Kansas City Times says that
'Weyler's voice is still for war;" but
there must be some mistake about that.
Weyler's voice is never still for any
thing.
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

In summing up the events of the war
1t must not be forgotten that the Gen.
sorship was one of the most valuable
ships in our navy.
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

Cervera doesn't know which to ad-
mire most, American hostility or Amer
lean hospitality; and he has had fair
chance to try both.
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

Praise for the man behind the guns
should not completely obscure the valu-
able services of the man behind the ra-
tions. n
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

Cawker-My wife always buys two
stamps at a time, SO that she can get
q cent change out of the nickel. Cumso
What does, she want with. the cent?
Cawker-She saves them until she has
ave and then pays her street car fare
with them-Puck.
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

Cuba can be made garden, but 1t
drst must be made healthful Soap Will
work wonders down there.
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28
But who did blow up the Mainef

It didn't require any Havana to be
handed over for Spain to see its hopes
20 up in smoke.
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

About 100 men are engaged in placer
mining in the Beaver district, Yavapai
county, Arizona. One of the number, a
Mexican, found nugget in Weaver
Gulch few days since.
Mesa free press., 1898-10-28

The Rome correspondent of the
London Daily Mail persists in his as
sertion that diplomatic relations be-
tween Prussia and the Vatican have
been broken off, and that Cardinal
Rampolla is making frantic efforts to
repair the error.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-04-16

The largest fruit plantations in the
world are in Jamaica, says the Buffalo Even
ing Times. They are owned and operated
ny an American company, the area Of
whose fruit farm in $4,000 acres. They
own $4,000 acres and the other 10000
acres are held by them under lease Their
principal crops are bananas and cocoanuts,
and last year they shipped 5000 600
punches OF bananas and 100000 cocoa
nuts, besides other faults, to America and
elsewhere, employing twelve steamers
belonging to the company. Near Olden,
on the Ozark Mountains, in Southern Mis-
souri,. there is one ui the largest and finest
fruit farms in the world. 1t consist OF
200 a'rrs "' land. owned by syndicate
'orm'u Of The members OF the Missouri
horticultural society, and on which are
planted $1,000 peach, $4,000 apple and
1000 pear trees, with 40 acres in small
fruits. There is an orchard at Santa
Barbara, in California, helonging to Elwood
Cooper, OF an area of 100 acres, containing
10000 olive trees, 1900 English walnut
trees, 1900 japanese persmmon trees,
10000 almond trees and about 1000 other
nut and fruit trees.