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Evening journal., 1898-11-03
ANNUAL REPORT ISSUED
Of the Condition and Work
of the Public Schools.
HIGH STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE

SUPERINTENDENT DAVID w. HAIR
Ian MAKES AN EXHAUSTIVE
REPORT OF THE OPERATIONS OF
THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IN wM-
NIINGTON.
The annual report of Superintendent
of Public Schools David w. Harlan TOR
the year ending June 80, 1898, was is
sued yesterday.
The number of pupils enrolled last
year was 10,769, an increase Of 20 per
cent. over last year. The average daily
attendance WAS 1879. Twenty eight
school buildings are used ana 233
teachers employed.
Seven teachers resigned their posi-
tions last year. four in the white and
three in the colored schools. Eleven
appointments were made in the white
schools and four in the colored, includ-
ing a teacher in physics and chemistry
in the High School and teacher in
cooking and sewing in school No. 16.
Superintendent Harlan in his report
pays a high tribute to Miss Mary c. I.
Williams, assistant superintendent Of
the schools. He says: "She has no hob
bies and devotes herself to accomplish
ing the work laid down in the course
of instruction. Teachers who are anx-
ious to improve their teaching find her
a helpful friend"
In her first report submitted Miss
Williams says:
Except in physical culture and mu-
sic 1 think our work is in line with
best work being done elsewhere. Our
work in language is not satisfactory
! but a decided advance is being made
!; in this branch. The lectures by DR.
Schmucker have been a great help &c
i. the teachers, and both teachers and pu-
? pills have shown much eagerness tC
= kOnw the habits of animal plant and
> bird life. It is a matter of encourage
B ment that honest efforts are made K
b keep up with the times without vast
ing time and effort on mere fads. OI
y the whole, a good years work has beer
y done"
5 Professor A. H. Berlin reports 62
pupils enrolled at the High School dur
ing the year with an average attend
ance Of 97.1. The number Of scholars in
e structed in the manual training depart
+ ment was 26O; time, ninety minute
Il daily. The election Of two additions
teachers has been of great benefit
Ie the pupils
Since July /, 1873, the public schoC
q system has grown from fifteen schools
le employing eighty-Uwo teachers, wit
n I, $50 scholars enrolled, to its preser
E dimensions.
10 The course of study includes eleve
&c years work, divided into twenty-tw
Is grades, ten in the primary, and 81
u each in the grammar and High Scho'
IN departments. The number of pupils
ed each grade is as follows.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING

LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE lis
TEN TO TNTERESTINGS SPEECHES
by PROMINENT MEN.
"A very enthusiastic Democratic meet
ing was held last night at the headquar-
ters OF the William S. Bird Campaign
Club, in Mains Hall, Brandywine hun
dred.
Interesting speeches were made by
Squire Lewis Pfromm and Artemas Il
Smith. A large crowd was present an'
great deal of enthusiasm was shown
through the entire meeting.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
RESISTED, AN OFFICER.

James Devine was fined $40 and costs
by Judge Ball last night for resisting
an officer. Devine was begging upon
the streets and was taken into custody
by Officers Purcell and Harkins yes
terday afternoon. Judge Ball wit
messed the arrest and commended their
action.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
Will sToP FIRES.

Chief Of Police Dolan has instructed
his officers 20 stop any persons from
building fires Of leaves and rubbish
mon the public streets. The heat
cracks the bricks and paving stones
and some time ago the Street ano
Sewer Department Issued an order pro.
hibiting tar roofers from building fires
upon the streets.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
1lARGE RAMROAD BARGE.

The jackson and Sharp Company is
laying the keel for the new Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad barge. It will
be $50 feet long and SO feet wide, and
will have thre tracks on it. This is
the largest barge ever constructed 10y
the local company.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
OFFERED A REWARD.

The Delaware and Atlantic Telegraph
and Telephone Company has offered a
reward of $25 for the arrest and con-
victlon OF the parties who sawed off
three OF their poles along the road near
Grubb's Corner
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
BIT PART OF LIP OFF.
William Thomas Held for
Court on Charge of Mayhem.
he CHEwED WILLIAM JOHNS FACE

COLCRED MEN ON MONDAY
NIGHT LAST ONE MAN LOSES A
PART OF HIS UPPER LIP.
William ThoIsas, colored, was held in
$500 bail for a hearing before the grand
jury on charge OF mayhem by Judge
Ball this morning.
The fight, which terminated in VIII
liam Johns, colored, losing a part OF
his upper ilp, was caused by a remark
made by Lizzie Smith in front of the
house No. 1O9 Walnut street to Johns
on Monday night last. The man took
offense at the woman's words and pro-
ceeded TO hunt up William Thomas, her
friend, and requested him to call the
woman 70 an account for her words. He
found the man in a pool room on Front
street, and before he could have any
conversation on the subject he was
struck on the back Of the head by a
beer kettle in the hands of the Smith
woman, who had followed him TO the
place.
This was the signal for a fight De-
tween the two men, during which
Johns received several cuts upon the
head as a result Of being hit with pool
balls. The two men clinched and
johns was backed up against cue
rack, and when they separated mis-
lip was cut and bleeding.
DR.. Quinn testified to dressing the
mans wounds, and that a piece OF
Johns lip about three-quartens OF an
inch in diameter was missing. The
wound might have been inflicted by a
bite or by some instrument similar 70
a pick tearing 1t. Several stitches were
taken in the wound. AS a result OF
the hearing Thomas was held for the
, grand jury and the Smith woman nned
$40 and costs for assault and battery
p l.. Garrett represented the defend
ants.
In the ease of william Hopkins
Charles Harper and Charles Gambie
4 three boys, charged with the larceny o
Z six pairs OF shoes, valued at s4.75, tn
property of Henry Dehno, a shoe
maker Of No. 1915 Reed street, HoplSin
e and Harper were dismissed there be
sl ing no evidence to connect them wit
Is the crime. GamBe was held in $50
Is bail for the grand jury.
% Rby Chippey. a colored boy wa
lt ordered sent to the Ferris Industria
y School as incorrlgible upon recommen
dalton of Agent Frank Stout
v Frank Owens, charged with the lal
y ceny of a pair Of slippers, valued q
s. forty cents, the property of S. w. Wo
N ters, was dismissed. owing to a lack {
e evidence to prove the articles had bee
j. stolen.
3 William Faulkner, candidate Il
ss Council in the Second ward, was fine
A. s. and costs for being drunk and actin
ID in a disorderly manner. Lewis Smit
r. and Lewis Miller were fined 81 al
costs each for drunkenness.
40 At last nights session OF City Cou
ed John Fromm Harry Goodwin and Robe
,e- Boulden, charged with disorderly Co
he duct, were dismissed. William Taylc
disorderly conduct, was fined 81 al
ng costs. Mark Dorgstino, dischargll
81 firearms in the city limits, was fined
he land costs.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03

Last night State Chairman Browne
informed Chairman Neary that II the
Po,lce Department would place as
many Repuhglcan policemen as there
we're Democratic policemen in the dis
tricts where there is any likelihood Of
trouble or disorder, the Republican
committee would not raise the question
OF appointing the peace officers.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
DEMONSTRATION IN PROSPECT.

A special meeting of the Wilmington
Bicycle Club will be held tomorrow
evening to take action on the proposed
demonstration in honor of the Third
Battalion Of the First Delaware Regi-
ment which is soon TO return from
Camp Meade Mayor McLoar is CO.
operating with the club.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
THOMSON GOES CUNNING.

President Frank Thomson, Of the
Pennsylvania railroad, and a party
went through this city to-day about
1910 in a special car on a cunning trip
in Maryland.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
A nrcISTON REsERVElD.

This morning Chancellor Nicholson
heard argument in the case Of Josiah
w. Leeds VS.. Salina Sparks, the ques-
tlon being one Of the construction of a
WILL ]. Frank Blggs represented the
complainant and ex-senator Anthony
Higgins the respondent. The chancel-
Tor resrved his decision.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
HIETD FOR COURT.

Frank Difonso, an Italian OF Bran
dywine Springs, was held in $500 bail
for United States Court yesterday af-
bernoon at hearing before Commits
sioner Smith to answer to the charge
OF selling liquor without paying the
revenue tax. Difonso was arrested by
Deputy Internal Revenue Collector
Daniel Burton.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
pIpHrHERGA DECREASING.

Two cases of recovery from diph-
iberia were reported to Secretary Wig
ellsworth, Of the Board OF Health, this
morning. The houses were fumigated
by the heath officers.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
TO POLICE THE CITY.

AT the request of the committees rep
resenFing the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties, Chief Dolan will place
an equal number of officers from each
marty in districts where trouble is like
ly to occur. BY placing the men in
this manner no claims Of unfairness
can be made by either party.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
MAKING CITIZENS.

James Warner, Patrick McCaffery,
Michael ]. Lynch, Martin Muirooney
natives of ireland, and Samuel Rabin
ovitch, a Russian. were naturalized by
Judge Bradford in United states Court
yesterday afternoon.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
RIEMovED no THE AIMsHOUsE


Suffering with typhoid fever, one OF
the prisoners in New Castle jail, was
to-day sent to the county almshouse
for treatment. 1t was Sergeant Welchi
one Of the members Of the First Della
ware Regiment, imprisoned for assault
ing a little Italian girl near Town
send. Sheriff Finn assumed full re-
sponsfbinty in the matter, declaring
that humanity demanded it. Jail PLY
sicianI Black is sick, and at the jail
We,ch could not have proper treat
ment and quiet. Not only that, but The
sheriff was averse to having typhoid
case in the Jail, considering it a men
ace to the other prisoners. Welchi
term win expire next month.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
CposSANr IN oIrAY,s TOWN.

Register OF Wills Calvin w. Cros-
san is in Beaver, Pa. He went there
on business connected with the will Of
the late Elizabeth Walther.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
CONTRACT APPROVED.

The contract for removing the rock
in the Christiana river has been ap
proved by the chief engineer and the
work will commence about the lst c
December.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
EX-AssEMBLYNRAN TAYDOR DEAI

Townsend. Del, Nov. S.-James Il.
Taylor, 65 years old, well-known far
mer, died suddenly yesterday afternoon
Of heart disease. He was stricken while
experimenting some work, and soon
died. He was a member of the House
of Representatives
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
REGISTRATION APPEAL CASES

This morning Judge Spruance order
ed the name OF Frank Marsden, a white
Republican Of the Sixty-second district
Republican of the Sixty-second election
district Of the Third representative die
trict, was put on the books Euge1
Morris, colored, of st. Georges hun
dred, and a white man named Barrett,
were also put on.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
GRAND OPENING SATURDAY, NO
MEMBER s

Souvenirs to purchasers. Special dis
play of fine teas and fresh roasted cof-
fees all day and evening. Grand
Union Tea Company, 600 King street.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
THE GRAND OPENING AT THE
GRAND UNION TEA COMPANY,
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 8.

The special display Of fine teas and
coffees. also chinaware and hundreds
OF useful articles. You will be aston
ished when you examine our goods and
prices. Grand Union Tea Company,
COO King street.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
FIREl FIRE!

II. T. Sergeant, Coal and Wood office
Seventh and King Delmarvia phone
545. b. & L. checks with cash purchases
Evening journal., 1898-11-03
TO GRANT PARERs.

Judge Bradford will sit in United
States Court this afternoon for the pur.
pose Of granting naturalization papers.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03

In his statement Benjamin f. Bart
ram, secretary and treasurer OF the
Board Of Education, reports the esti-
mated total value OF school property
to be $675. sos. The total expenditures
for current expenses Of day schools
amounted to s15S,S4S.77, or $2016 pei
capita. The receipts for the year were
S193, ,555.S4 and the expenditures ST.
902.37, leaving a balance on hand foi
building. heat. ETC., of s21,59S.47. Dur
ing the last ten years the tax rate hai
been four mills. and the total amoun
of money received by the board from
City Council. the state and othe
sources was s16S,S4s77. The repor
contains 161 pages.
Evening journal., 1898-11-03

People who use good judgment buy
the Ludwig Piano. 515 Shipley street.
The Jewish South. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1893-1899, 1898-07-29


Everyone bade me prepare for insignificant, a
and dirty cty-for disilusion. The people
who speak like that about Jerusalem do SO because
they shut their eyes and open their But in the
East you must keep your nose as shut as you can,
and open your eyes to their widest range. Too many
Jewish travellers just go hastily into the city, take
sniff at the various smells peepn howell here and
there stand among the tourists at the Wailing Wall,
visit the Christian sites, and then imagine that
thev have seen or rather done Jerusalem Jerusa7
lem is in fact small at very eisurely pace it takes
lust forty minutes walk around the outside OF the
walls. Those walls, picturesque and medieval, are
only broken by the stately gates, with here a Cru,
saders castle and there remnant of one of Herods
towers.
AS to the beauty of the situation Of jerusalem go
amid the dark cellar-dWellngs il the narrow, vault
ed Streets to which neither light air penetrates
mount with the poor inhabitants to whom the Chal-
uka gives too little tor living too much for dying,
mount to the fiat roofs, with their central domes,
and use your eyes. Everywhere the prospect is mag
nicent The hills of Olivet andScopus, the deep val
evs the foot Of the city, the view of the Ju
dean hills and the more distant view Of the noun
tains OF Moab, separated from the onlooker by the
Dead Sea-something of this is visible from many
house in Jerusalem.
IF the schools inside the walls dismal the
Child needs but to turn his head and feast his eyes
the grandeur of nature | went with throng
the first day of Passover to of the Jewish build
ings whence such view is possible; with throng
because the festivals the Jews 60 up to the temple
Of old; that is, they go to spot whence the
Western Wall may be seen. But to what the
crowd did, and as to the ordinary Sabbath scene at
the Western Wall | will not say much, eoause |
was Of the crowd not spectator; and at the Vail
ing Wall stood with the walters and not with the
tourists. Tourists who 90 such scott lit
tie know the contempt they in the minds of
the people they ridculng. Never imagine YOU
are laughing at Jewish crowd; can you
that the laugh is the other side The walters,
with their various and gaudy dresses still not
the tunner of the sights. | heard Jewish photo
grapher say that he meant dav go tile Wall
ing Wall and take snapshot at the tourists.
Bacdeker tells every traveller to visit the place,
and so on q certain wet Friday Cooks party went
The Jewish South. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1893-1899, 1898-07-29
THE JEWISH SOUTH.

position and with a sly twinkle, shouted in chorus
the foch ChamoScha-" Pour out thy wrath upon
the Gentiles"-from the Passover Hagada.
Dirt indescrbable there is in Jerusalem, there are
seasons in it's dirt there's the dirt of the dry months
and the nauseous dirt of the rainy period. Into the
streets cast at all times all the refuse all the
age that are not thrown over the wall to lie just
outside. But can assure you that the Jews them
selves very little responsible for this. They pay
tax for cleaning the Streets but if it were not for
the dogs, no cleaning whatever would be done. /
saw indeed one donkey, whose two small panniers
were being aziy filled by Turkish scavenger with
refuse from dung heap. Then he led the animal off
but it trod the uneven stones, bit by bit the
dirt jostled out, and the street recovered it's
What can the Jews do against such admins.
tration? think that we Maccabeans might do
than strengthen the hands of those in Jerusa
lem who resolved that they will no longer en-
dure this disgrace
You must not think that all acquesce in the pres
ent condition of things There is in Jerusalem fine
spirit of respect and independence which
from the group have already mentioned. 1t is this
spirit which, with little sensible aid, might trans
form Jerusalem into clean and stately city. That
the Jews are dirty do not deny, but if the dirtest
houses in Jerusalem belong to Jews do the clean
est. You must remember that two-thirds of the
Jews of Jerusalem live outside the walls Incidental
ly mustp point out that Jerusalem proper is becom-
ing every day more and more Christian city. All
the best sites within and the walls in Chris
tian hands While ! was there the Germans
building large new church over the valley the En-:
glish big church in the North and the Greeks the
magnificent cathedral of St. Etienne, which the
lads from the Alliance Technical Schoowe at work
Take photograph Of Jerusalem where you will, you
get in it but Christian buildings, hospices con
vents, missions, schools.
/ am not tonight arguing for against Zionsm,
but any Zionism tn 1T may be reazabe must be
Zionism without Zion. The newest Jewish buildings
are the most remote from the city itself; they lie
along the Ja4a road. The Jewish hospital is
one of the two last houses youleave Jerusalem be-
hind YOU the very last being the still incomplete
Home for the Jewish Aged Now the Jaffa suburb,
in which the bulk of the Jews 1--we in which the chief
Jewish schools are located is as clean and healthy as
The Jewish South. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1893-1899, 1898-07-29

WE referred recently to the death of DR.. Ferdinand
COIN, an eminent German scientist. The story is
told Of him that when he opened Of lectures
on botany, he illustrated to his class his natural
The Mena star., 1898-07-27
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Rev. Sam Jones is said to make an income of $30, ,o0O year from his preach ing
 John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has been elected to and has accepted trustee ship of the University of Chicago.
 The Spanish ex-minister, Dupuy de Lome, threatens us with a book ex- blaming the letter which caused his recall.
 Carolus Duran, the distinguished French painter, has arrived at New York on his first visit to America. His real name is Charles Auguste Emile Du- rand.
 Asked to confirm the rumor that he was about to retire from business, Rus sell Sage is said to have replied: Why, if I stop work, what is there for me to do?"
 The count of Turin, nephew of King Humbert of Italy, who became thepop- ular idol of Italy by his duel with Prince Henri d'Orleans, is said to have obtained permission to visit the United States next summer.
 Sir Claude Macdonald, British ann bassador at Picking, has attained the questionable notoriety of being "the worst-informed diplomat in China Though but 46, he has seen military service in Egypt and has been consul general in both Zanzibar and West Africa.
 Signor Luigi Capucci, an Italian ar chitect fresh from an extended captiv- ity in Abyssinia, reports that King Menelek is not the advanced ruler whom recent reports have pictured. The sig nor says the monarch and his people are mere savages. with no longings for the benefits of civilization.
The Mena star., 1898-07-27
tteln Us to Help the State.

The Frisco Line is making a strong effort to turn the attention of legiti- mate home-seekers in this direction. 1t is not belng done, and will not be done, by misrepresentation, but by honest statements as to real advan- tages of this region. Will you help us in this work by furnishing, at once, lists of persons to whom it might be we'll to send suitable printed matter? And would you like to receive copy of the Farmer and Fruitman" free? Address B. l.. Winchell, General Pas senger Agent, Frisco Line, St Louis
The Mena star., 1898-07-27
An Agreeable Cough Mixture.

Children can often be induced to take mothers" cough mixture when they pull wry faces over a physicians prescription. Most housewives have some old and tried cough mixture recipe by which they set great store, but should there r. some among my readers who do gCi possess such a recipe, 1 wor'1 IT, sest their adoption of the fol CT mixture, which will be found yer soothing to the throat and chest; C. three large, fresh lem ons and ha.l them in already boiling water foi about seven minutes; then. when tender, slice them very thin, put the slices in bowl together with a pound of best moist sugar, and set the bowl on the stove for some hours, so that the contents may almost be said to have distilled. Then take the bowl from the fire and let the contents cool for half an hour. Lastly, stir in table spoonful of oil of sweet almonds, and give teaspoonful of the mixture at time when the throat is irr'tatel.- Chicago Times-1. era q.
The Mena star., 1898-07-27
LAUGH THRICE A DAY.
It Will Prove Sovereign Remedy for
 Melancholy

It has been said that we grow in face as we grow in thought, and that our faces are mirrors of our souls, but do we ever stop to think that our faces affect our souls? And if they affect our souls they also affect our health for health is, to a greater or less ex- tent, controlled by the mind and soul.
 It is fact. as we have found out, that woe begone expression will drive every one away from us. Even Fortune deserts us. If we sink in mel ancholy and indulge ourselves in our fancled or real ills of mind or body we become diseased While on the other hand cheerful view of life is better than medicine A bright smile is al ways winner, and it's possessor can guide fate wherever she chooses.
 On the other hand, if woman sits down and broods over her own ugll- ness. longing for beauty,she will grow uglier and uglier every day She should cultivate a smile and practice it frequently, no matter whether she feels like smiling or not, and laugh. It is tome.
 Laugh methodically if you can not laugh any other way. Make it busi- ness to laugh three times day no matter whether there is anything to laugh at or not. Laugh with the others even if you GO not see the joke. If there is TO joke this fact merely makes one, and laughing being conta- gious every one around you feels exhil- arated and more cheerful, and laughter as duty becomes habit, and one for gets to frown and groan and sigh. Laugh whether seized with desire to cry or scold
 One woman not long sluce cured her self of chronic ills which no doctor seemed able to reach by simply making up her mind to treat herself Tn this manner. Her first prescription to her self was good. hearty laugh at each meal, and the entire family circle were in league to help her. Her health im- proved of course. us laughter is known to aid digestion. and the return of health made her really happy, and hap piness is the keynote to Leauty.-New York Herald.
The Mena star., 1898-07-27
The Firrf Thnnrh..

When awakening in the morning, to not rub the eyes; indeed, one ought never to rub or press ;l.e fingers against the eyes. IT thev icel ~ all irritable sponge them with cold water. Cold water has most beneficial Feet upon the eyes, and the strongest will find if good 10 daily bethe the eyes in cold water. This invigorates them and helps to keep them in good working or der. But it must be remembered that quite cold water should only be used when the body is at moderate tenn perature. When one is very heated or warm, the chill must be taken off the water to avoid any sudden shock.-Bos- ton Herald.