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The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-18

From staff Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, April IA new week
in th. Observation-Disclosures question be-
gins to-day:
During the past week no additional facts
were presented and no vote in Congress
was changed by brilliant, eloquent and
learned debate. The case is completely
made up. The evidence is all in.
1t is feared tonight that the delay, oc-
casioned bv the fact that the Senate
resolution will not meet with favor in
the House, will prove disastrous to the
United States.
Disagreement in the House, then ten
days forthe Presidents consideration will
not only give the European powers
ample time to intrigue, donspire and
threaten to intervene but allows Spain to
complete arrangements for the purchase
of munitions OF war; even in our markets
and make shipments in foreign vessels to
the lands OF the Spanish kingdom.
The longer the delay the better Spain
will be prepared for war when it comes.
fighting, as she must at an immense dis
tance from her base of supplies, without
fuel her fleet will be helpless.
Thursday night the British steamer
hampsteao sl'!eu llo,, ,ar;on" mHr'n nooS %t;,r f
three tl'o'sa'lu .olls ~ Ae, mIa VA, Wv, ~,
the ouhEers ol t''e MARIA Sn na1lesa aa.;,n' ai'.
CrlstooMl oolo'' anu VIC 'o'pe'o ''o'''''
at 81 vincent ,,;, .o ,,,,o,,o,;,,,
inc agents oi ~; npaln a,e pu.tn.'s,s ,.'s,aH
mules at huhsas wy anu q"a'Vs'1l"s- MAS
ters supplies IN baitl1''o.e % ahu :. New ;I,'
YORK. "nh io,lllurles anu powugi Hills HILLS
are running Gay ana nlslt' anu d ''e"
Armada is aarEehlig tIe seas'
Ihe Peop PIE nave rendered t.lelt Ver- ..
DICT. lhere IS no ue'lr'9m nor lrel'zy ior
war. me prlVest men ulgau % WA, war l'.os', ns ,
put the "cankers OF IL cam world anu
long peace are worse thal war; anu
dlscouraglng as 10 may DC 10 tlle mora!lst
or the eccIeslastlc' the man or tue natlon
that does nov resent an insult oenaha
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-18
Warships or St. Thomas.

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, Island. Of St.
Thomas, April IA squadron OF five
warships, the nationality of which il
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-18

&. II. Amo'd, of New York, visited in
this city on Friday.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-18

A. +. Polk, Of Georgetown, visited
this city yesterday.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-18

4 Colonel James l.. Devou is in New
ok OF business
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-13
Rnthing in .E,ectricitx.

Bathing in electricity is the daily
amusement Of number of men in
big Office building in Kansas City, Mo.
Several times day the men saturate
themselves with static electricity, and
one of them is getting fat on it. The
others haven't been bathing long
enough to know whether they will get
fat or die. The process was discovered
by man who was paying doctor
$3.50 three times week for electrical!
treatment for nervousness. He is
chief engineer of the building. One
day he crawled into the pit beneath the
big belt that draws the elevator and
dynamo machinery. When he desired
to come out he handed his assistant a
metal lamp he was carrying The as
sistant got an electric shock that made
him see violent stars. After that the
engineer forsook the doctor and saved
$3.50 week. Static electricity is that
| produced by friction, and is just what
the doctor was furnishing from a
brush machine at $3.50 dose. The
great belt in its swift revolutions pro-
| duces and stores the electric fluid by
friction. To steal the electricity the
men stand close to it, holding over il
a magnet made of copper wire wouni
on a spool, with both ends of the wire
loose. To complete the circuit a cop
per wire is fastened to an iron water
pipe near by. and a silver dollar i!
placed in loop in the loose end Thi.
is passed up and down the body ere
ating circuit Of the electricity ant
literally bathing the whole system il
the fluid. One of the men who take
these electric baths has relieved him
self of rheumatism. Another is treat
ing himself for a nervous disorder
J while the others take it for a tonic.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-13
The "Don't-want-st" Signal.

"a friend turned up here recently"
said New Yorker, who'd been in
Cuba for number of years. Don't be
afraid-this isn't anything about the
war. He brought with him a habit
that struck me as curious; when he re-
fused anything offered to him he would
shake his foretinger from side to side
sometimes his right forefinger, some
times his left, at about where his waist
had been when he still had a waist.
The habit is easy to acquire, and
picked it up; but it didn't work we'll,
for few persons here seemed to notice
it.
walking across City Hall Park the
other day, however, couple OF news
boys rushed at me from different sides.
simply shook my finger as my friend
used to shake his, and both boys stop
| ped-one Of them ten feet away. the
other not SO far. They stopped short,
turned about and went away. I tried
the trick later, when another boy rush
ed at me; and again it worked like a
charm These boys were Italians; and
I came to the conclusion that because
they were accustomed to gesticulations
they understood that l didn't want a
paper. while Irish newsboys would not
or might not have dons So,
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-13

James y. Hill. father Of Philip Hill
who was to have been hanged, recent
ly. was arraigned before Judge Ber-
nard Mckenna at Central Station.
Pittsburg, on charge of drunkenness.
Policeman James Lowrie found him
lying on Chathnro street, about an
hour after the execution was appoint
ed to have taken place. He was para
lyzed drunk
Hill, what have you to say for YOUR
SELF" asked Judge McKenna.
Il was glad tina. my son wasn't
hung yesterday" said the prisoner.
You had proper excuse for getting
drunk" remarked the Judge, land I
would advise you to go on another toot
to-day again.
I'm not drinking man. but when
word arrived that my son was not to
be hung l just went and filled up."
"lf 1 were you 1 would go on drunk
for whole week.
Thanks, your Honor, 1 will" and
Hill slammed his hat en- his head and
started at a 2:z0 gait for the nearest
saloon. All the policemen were told to
let him jubilate.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-13
SEA WOLVES AT WAR
FIERCE BATTLE BETWEEN A SPERM
WHALE AND SWORDFISH.
The Lcvinthan Kept the Surface by
Strategy While the ThraShers Stabbed
Eim 20 Dcntf-ThrilIing Combat Wit
messed IL, th; Pacific Ocean.

did you ever see school of thrash
ers after a whale, with a swordfish as
sisting the sea wolves?"
Some of the party had witnessed the
sight, others had not; all, however,
were cogniZant OF the close association
existing between the thrasher and
swordfish, but the story was asked for.
1T was from the deck of the old
brig Fireny, plying in the fruit trade
between San Francisco and Tahiti,
during the seventies that l saw this sea
battle said the shipping man. I'VE
We're off the Marquesas and lolling
along with the equatorial drift, not
enough wind blowing to keep the sails
from Stating against the masts. The
heat was something deadly in its inten-
sity, and there wasn't enough energy
among either crew or passengers to
even read.
Suddenly we were reused by call
from the lookout: Something coming
up, sir! Two points off the lee bow,
and at the break Of the horizon:'
'sIn a moment we were all on our
feet, and leaning over the port taffrail.
Far down near the horizon could be
seen furry of foam and a tumble OF
dark objects. These would appear and
disappear, with each appearance the
white spray we had first noticed show
ing clear against the blue Of the equa-
torial sky.
" Number of native canoes out after
a whale, make it, said Captain Tur-
ner, as he handed the glass over to me.
II got steady sight on the object,
which were rapidly approaching us.
With the second furry of foam, as the
black spot appeared on the surface I
could make them out. It was a big
sperm whale being chased by school
OF thrashers.
"'But the whale doesn't sound long
enough to have thrashers after him,
said the captain. 1T must be natives
in canoes and the swell hides them
from the deck
"To make certain I went aloft, in
the fore rigging, and from the top could
make out the fight distinctly. But
Just as the captain had said, I was
puzzled at the short lapses of time
transpiring between the whales fiukine
and his again appearing on the surface
THE whale was headed straight fol
us. and working along at rate that
within half an hour would bring him
with the thrashers abreast of the brig
providing he did not change his course
This, fortunately for our excited curl
osity, the whale did not do, and at {
distance of less than 800 fathoms, the
people of the Firetly were treated tt
such a sight as seldom comes, even IL
the varied incidents which go to max
up life at sea.
1--WE had all been offering conjecture
as to why the whale did not sound t
a depth the thrashers could not fol
low. When. the big fellow had range
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-13
JOHNNY APPLESEED.
A UNIQUE AND USEFUL CHARACTER
OF PIONEER DAYS.

He Wandered Over tho Western Plains
Scattering Apple Seeds Wherever He
went-The Incalculable Value OF His
Strange Missionary Efforts.
Among the heroes of endurance and
of creative action was one man whose
name deserves to be perpetuated. He
was Johnny Appleseed," by which
name Jonathan Chapman was known
in every cabin on the Ohio riv-
er to the northern lakes and west to
what is now Indiana. With two ca
noes dashed together this intrepid youth
Of rs transported a load OF appleseeds
to the western frontier for the pur-
pose of creating orchards. He passed
down the Ohio to Marietta, ascending
the Muskingum on upward to the head
of navigation. A long, hard voyage it
was, for the lone traveller stopped at
every inviting place to plant his seeds.
His canoe voyage in 1906 appears to
have been the only occasion upon which
he adopted that method of transporta-
ton. all subsequent journeys being
made on foot. Securely packed in
leather bags the seeds were sometimes
conveyed on the back of horse and
sometimes on his own shoulders, when
he would often journey a distance Of
$50 miles. The frontiersman who felt
himself protected by his rifle against
the wild beasts and hostile Indians
found it necessary to guard against the
lnsidious enemies in the grass by
wrapping bandages of dried grass
about his buckskin leggin; but young
Chapman would shoulder his bag of
seeds, and with bare feet penetrate to
the remctest parts. Even in the cold
est weather he went barefoot, but
sometimes for long journeys he would
make himself a rude pair of sandals.
| 1t seems to have been a matter Of con-
science with him never to purchase
shoes, though he never was without
money.
One cold winter day he was travelling
barefoot through the snow when a set
tier forced the acceptance of an old
pair of shoes upon him. A few days
after the donor met Johnny" con-
tentedly plodding along with his feet
bare and half-frozen. With some an
| 6oA nc iASuIl GU luLO the LliilISE ana
learned that Johnny had met a poor
man who seemed to need them more
than be did, so he gave them up.
He was very eccentric in dress
wearing a garment made of a coffee
sack in which he cut holes for his head
and arms and pronounced it "a very
serviceable cloak, and as good as any
man need wear" In the matter o.
head-gear, his taste was equally
unique; his first experiment was a tir
vessel that served for his cooking, bu
this was open to the objection that i
did not protect his eyes from tn,
beams Of the sun, SO he constructed
hat Of pasteboard with an immens
peak in front, which became his per
manent fashion.
During the war Of 1912 Johnny Ap
pleseed continued his wanderings an
was never harmed by the bands G
hostile. Indians, who regarded him a
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-13
IN A BIG MICA NINE.
THE VALUABLE MINERAL SHAVED OFF
AS IF 1T WERE CHEESE.

"Hole IN the Ground" Out of Which One
of the Oueerest Products of Nature Is
Taken by the Most Primatlvc Appliances
Uses of the Substance.
There has recently been reopened
near the town of Monroe, Orange
County, an old mica mine, unused for
the last fifteen or twenty years. The
working Of the mine was stopped, not
because OF any deficiency in the guam
tity of its product, but because at that
time mica was plentiful elsewhere and
the prices were too low to pay for its
excavation. Now, however, owing to the
exhaustion of many formerly produc-
tive mines in various parts of the
country, mica is scarce and correspond
| ingly expensive. This has encouraged
a few men, who knew of the existence
of the old mine, to form a company for
its reopening. George +. Clark, a
| bluestone dealer, who lives near the
| town of Tri-States on the boundary
corner separating Pennsylvania, New
| Jersey and New York, is one OF the
| chief promoters Of the project, and
| those associated with him are men
| from Brooklyn and from Newark, N.
]. Their organization is called the
Mombosha Mining Company, SO named
! from lake near the mine, and they
| have leased the ground for ten years,
with privilege of renewal. The mine,
which is hole in the ground not more
| than twenty feet square and about
twelve feet deep, is situated on one
farm, but outcropping lodges Of mica
in an adjoining field are another piece
of property, and this necessitates
leasing ground from two different own
ers. The farmers, perhaps distressing
| the value Of their mica beds, have been
very willing to grant the leases at low
| figures.
! Work in the mine was begun before
the extremely cold weather set in, and
the company now has on hand five or
six hundred pounds of sheet mica OF
a light amber color and Of fine quality
Experts who have examined the mine
have been surprised at the apparently
inexhaustibie deposits there, and have
praised the kind Of mica obtained The
sheets vary greatly in size, some meas.
uring as much as twelve inches square
The sheet mica is used, as is vel
known, instead of glass in places ex
posed to heat, such as reflectors, head
! lights and stove and lantern lights.
is also made into spectacles to protec
the eyes in various mechanical pro
cesses. The market price for it a
present varies from 81 to $25 pound
according to the size Of the sheet AM
J the quality "Scrap" mica, as tn
small pieces are termed, is pounded VI
for use in varnjsh, to make a glitter
, ing coating for wall papers, and il
some kinds of lustrous paints. 1t i
also used in making a covering TO
roofs. and is mixed with oil as lubri
cant for machinery. The prices 10
scrap mica now range from SIS to So
) a ton.
The working Of a mica mine is
comparatively inexpensive process, 70
the. sheets o.. the mineral stand in up
<e
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-13
just off our quarter the question was

just off our quarter the question was
answered.
"Fluking high and bringing his tail
down with a swash that would have
crushed the life out of any thrasher
attempted to sound. He could not
have reached FIVE fathoms deep. when,
with below of pain, he shot to the
surface fiinging his huge bulk high in
the air. simultaneously a cry went
up from all of US. Dangling from the
whales belly was swordtish, its sword
embedded deep in the blubber. Twist
ing and throwing itself, the swordfish
seemed endeavoring to work loose
again land its great body in the sea.
This it succeeded in doing fraction of
a second only separating the fall of the
swordfish and that of the whale into
the ocean. This was sufficient, how
ever, for the swordfish to gather depth
and with anothe. prod. keep the whale
on the surface. Then with a rush the
school of thrashers were upon the
whale. Setting their teeth into its
great chunks of blubher from the bel
lowing leviathan, while the balance of
the school, with fearful blows, would
thrash at the whale with their tlukes,
the swordfish in the meantime keeping
up a steady stabbing from beneath,
| until at last. in sheer agony of pain,
the whale would sound, dragging the
| swordfsh, with it's sharp saw tooth
blade of Zone sunk deep in the blub-
| Der with it.
1T seemed impossible. however, for
the whale to reach any depth, impeded
| as it was by the twelve-foot swordfish
| hanging to it and with a below it
would again come to the surface Three
times, while life remained in the whale
did we see the huge bulk shoot out OF
the water, the white body Of the sword
Gsh hanging from it's side.
stranger still, though, was the tao
Tics used by the swordfsh, to so wound
the whales blowhole as to incapacitate
it entirely from sounding. Twice, when
the whale had been stabbed at the sur
face and the thrashers had taken good
hold, the swordfish, ranging close tc
( the whales head, threw itself out OF
the water and with its sharp-tootheG
sword endeavored to cut open the
whales blowhole. That the swordfist
had succeeded in one Of these attempts
prior to our getting close view Of the
fight, was evidenced by the scattering
spray in which the whale sent forth
it's blow on rising.
'The whale had hardly gone three
miles astern of US, before its body
floating, still on the ocean, showed
that swordfish aud thrashers had con
quered."
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-13
A Encouragement to Business.

"How does the horseless carriage
business progress?" asked the inquir-
ing customer Of the Irish proprietor of
an automatic carriage establishment in
New York.
Sure, there's times it progresses
fine, sorr, an there's times it don't pro-
gress at ALL" replied the proprietor.
''Whin the cabs is in order an goes
whiZzin' around the strates widout
noise or commotion folks looks at 'em
wild special admiration an says: Amt
thot divil av fine way to get over
the ground But, sorr, av you'll take
my wurrud for it it's powerful dis
couridgemint to the business to see
tree big micks pushin' a played-out
automotor oof Broadway in the opin
face av Hivin, an the Interested pooh
lie, an advertiSin' the catastrophe be
shwearin' thimsilves blue in the fayess
at livery step. A powerful discourage
mint to the business it is, an av it
don't stop happenin' on a sinful aver
age av vance day, I'm goin' to sell
out an go into the perpetuous motion
I,,,ciposc
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-13
III arm of on
NAMES WE MISSED.
aow Several of the Most Important States
Were Named In the Past.

aow Several of the Most Important States
We're Named In the Past.
1t was intended that Maryland
should be called "Crescentia," but
Charles 1. changed it to "Cerra Ma
:iae," In honor OF his witt, and we
made it "Mary's Land" hence Mary
land. (Home pronunciation, Merry
,on.D William Penn wanted to call his
state New Wales" but afterward de-
cided upon Sylvania, to which the king
prefiXed the word Penn. In 1884 an
ordinance was drawn up as follows:
The territory northward of the forty
fifth degree, that is to say, of the COM:
pletion of the forty-fifth degree from
the equator and extending to the Lake
of the Woods, shall be called sylvia
MIA See what we missed! The terri
tory under the forty-fifth and forty
fourth degrees which lies westward of
gania. while that to the eastward with
III the peninsula formed by the lakes
and waters of Michigan, Huron, st.
Clair and Erie, was to he called Cher.
sonesus. Heaven forbade:
Of the territory lying under the for
ty-third and forty second degrees, that
to the westward. called Assenisipia;
that to the eastward, in which are the
sources OF the Muskingun, the two Mi
amis Of the Ohio. the Wabash, the Il1i-
nois, the Miamis Of the lake, and the
Sandusky rivers, was to be called Met
ropotamia. The country through which
the Illinois river runs was to be called
Illinois, the next joining to the east
ward Saratoga. and that between the
last and Pennsylvania, extending from
the Ohio to Lake Erie, Washington. An
that region adjacent to which are the
confiuences of the Wabash, Shawnee,
Tanisee, Ohio, Illinois, Mississippi and
Missouri rivers, was to be called Poly
tamia, and that further up the Ohio,
Pelisipia. Verify, Watchful Provi-
dence seems to have guarded US from
| these Affections.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-13
TABLE LINENS AND TOWELS.

Several hundred dozen Linen T,w>ts.
Turkish Towels, Cotton TDwels, Bleach
Table Lin MS, Brown Table Linens,
Red and Green Table Linens We
bought thEse goods last August, be-
fore the Mckinley tariff went into OPP
Grafton, Which makes a difference in
prices of 20 to 80 per cent. We nrv still
selling these !iI:cns at the .lI price as
long as this rot will last:
T2-inch BleacheI Damask, handsome
pattern. Sl.5O per yard.
72-inch Bleached Damask, various
patterns. s1.25 a yard.
Finch Bleached Damask, s1.0O yard.
72-inch I5.Sarhei Damask. '5c a yard.
6O-inch Bleached DamaSk soc u yard.
5S-inch Bleachei Damask. soc a yard.
5.-inch Bieached Damask. &c 4 yard.
TOWELS F.! TOWELS TOWELS
80 dozen Linan Towels, worth - 1-2c,
for 10 cents.
80 dozen Linen Towe.s, worth TIC,
for L II cents.
80 dozen Linen Towels. wcrth % cents.
for 10 CEntS.
TABLE NAPKINS! TABLE NAPKINS
White napkins, with fringe, 60 cents d
dozen
White napkins, with fringe, rs cents a
dozen.
White napkins, with fringe, 9s sshts a
dozen.
Plain white napkins. sNtra good val
ues, csc. $1.25, $3.50, Sl9S. s.. 9S to s4.9s
a dozen.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-13
ropman Lattmann,s Close con.

William Lattmann had miraculous
escape at the HOFFMAN mine, Belleville,
ILL.,, recently. He is the topman. Sup
posing the cage was at the top ne
showed a car into the shaft. He was
drawn after it. In his downward
plunge ne caught the wire cable and
saved himself. He hung there with
the bottom of the shaft 300 feet below
until almost exhausted. His cries
were heard, the cable was drawn up,
and he was rescued. His hands were
terribly torn,
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-13

right Lodges, and are easily separated
from the adjacent rock. Then the
splitting up Of the strata is accom-
plished without much trouble. The
scrap mica is gathered in great guam
titles, much of it being the debris left
where the sheet mica has been broken
by the picks in cutting it out On ac-
count of the cold in Orange County
work on the Mombosha mine has been
suspended now until the early spring.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-13
coI.CRED WOOL DIRE. IS GOODS.

Here are some big bargains in this
Department.:
About 20 pieces Wool Plaid Dress
Goods FOR chTdren's school dresses.
'rhest. goods are worth % cents a
yard: will sell them during this sale at
Ice yard.
Dress goods again: anOthe'" Dle--rern-
nantS and dress patti rms. Plain s:-rges
and fancy mixed goods, so ami Cue was
the price. est your choice curing this
st,ie at SOC yard. ....
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-13
a Great medicine man" on account of
his eccentric dress and actions.

" e. eslI AACuiSiAe Hidu Oh account OF
his eccentric dress and actions.
For forty-siX years he devoted his
life to this self-imposed mission and
died placid and beautiful death at
the age of u. Thus passed one of the
memorable men of pioneer times, who
never inflicted pain, nor knew an en-
envy. A self-denying benefactor Of his
race, homeless, solitary and ragged, he
trod the earth with bleeding feet. in
tent only upon making the wilderness
fruitful. His deeds will last as long
as the apples blossom. and the story
OF his life will be perpetual proof
that true heroism, pure benevolence
and noble virtues that deserved i'm
mortality may be found under the
meaneSt apparel