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Dip|omatic Relations Cease.

Special To lHES'
WAsuISGroS, April 2O.-Diplomatic
relations between the United States and
\ Spain were officially severed at II 80
II o'clock this morning. At that time
Senor Polo Berlaoe, the Spanish Min
| lister to the United States, made request
Ito the State Department for his pass
lpot!.
| This step on Senpr Polos part was in
consequence OF his having been furnished
with a copy of President Mckinley's
hltimatum to Spain. 1t demands that
n Inc government OF Spain at once relin-
kuish its authority and government in
Il he island of Cuba and withdraw its
3bnd and naval forces from Cuba and
fuban waters.
kThe resolutions of Congress and the
hhtlmatum to Spain were signed by the
AEesident at ll.24 o'clock this morning.
hhe ultimutum was at once transmitted
cable to Minister Woodford to pre-
MT to the Spanish Government.
The utilnatum will not be made public
Hill tomorrow.
I 1t gives Spain until Saturday mid
| i 1ht to reply.
Y NJ. Sthc absence of the favorable reply
nv Eh.t time the President will be COM
IgIkled.l. nder the terms Of the resolution,
II |b EMPLOY tile land and naval forces of
k kbe United states to enforce compliance.
Hf Unless the unexpected should happen
|5and Spain back down, orders may be
\ sent to Captain Sampson to move upon
Havana on Saturday with the Key West
fleet.
The President invited the members OF
the Cabinet to come to the White House
at 10 O'Clock this morning to hear the
note read as finally drafted, and to con
slider such details as may demand at
kention. The Cortes is in session today.
It has the power to grant Cuba lnde'
pendence, hut the administration con
Elders it iorcgone conclusion that there
will b. no such concession made by the
Representatives Of the Spanish people.
II is not unlikely that General Wood
lord will receive his passports before
midnight today. This would be all the
nsyer the United States would require
md action to compel Spain to remove
ler forces from the island of Cuba siouic
ollow Immediately. If, however, ,spair
Illows the time given to expire without
making an answer, NlIlils'el Npo,.o'
you'd withdraw from Madrid, and tht
Intensive campaign be postponed unit
hen. 1t is certain, however, in the
pinion of the President and the Cabinet
hat the North Atlantic squadron will bt
III Havana some time on Sunday next
nd perhaps before sundown on Satur
Il ia the intention of the President tt
vk Congress for the authority to call fo
1000 volunteers. The command o
hese forces will be offered first to Gen
raj Fitzhugh Lee. If Theodore Roose
An takes field service, Rear-Admlra
Walker, retired, will probably succeed
him as the Secretary Of the Navy.
AS the militia cannot be sent out o
Wei country unless they are incorporated
the regular army as volunteers, it il
yident that little can be done IN th'
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-21
New Powder Mills.

In anticipation OF supplying the Fed
eral Government with large quantities
of powder, the duPonts are running
their mills both night and day.
A new mill for making prismatic
powder is being built on the Brandywine
and the Pusey 4 Jones Company and
the Harlan IIollingsworth Company
are still busiIy engaged in making
powder making machinery for the COM
pany. The mills employed in the manu-.
facture Of high explosives are also eS'
trcmelv busy.
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Sales Confirmed.

In Orphans Court yesterday Judge
Sprlance confirmed the return of the
sale OF John L. Maone'A property.
John Rjes disappointed guardian of
Ries b., John ii. and Hiett Graham.
A order for the sale of the real estate
of the late Sarah J. Reynolds was made.
The return of the sale OF the Henry
Craig property was confirmed.
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MRS. SARAH ". PRICE.

Mrs Sarah NJ. Price, wife Of James
Price, of Philadelphia, and the daughter
of Samuel Harlan, Jr., the founder OF the
Harlan 4 llplliEgsworth Company, died
ut Stuttgart, Germany, on Monday, where
she had lived for eighteen years. She
was ~ years. old, and her death was
both sudden and unexpected. Six chil.
dren--fve daughters and one son-~stlr-
vive her. u..'..,''
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A Commissioner Appointed.

Judge Spruance has, on application Of
Willard Salisbury, Jr., appointed these
commissioners t, condemn a right Of
way for the Gordon Heights Railway
Company through the property Of Edwin
F., Williamson, in Brandywine hundred:
Columbus Watkins, w.. Pierce Biggs,
Harry Salnons, Andrew"E Eliason and
Colen Ferguson. They will meet at Mr..
Saalsbury's Office. on Saturday morning
Mt IO O'Clock.
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Fine Pair Of Horses.

The Phoenix Fire Company have pnr-
chased from Jester & Mcdaniel fine
pair Of bay horses for their engine, and
it is said they will be the finest pair OF
horse. in the department after they are
hrntuI
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way of preparing for the invasion OF
Cuba until Congress passes the Dill en-
powering the President to call tor voluh-
teers, and until he has time to organize
volunteer army.
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WoodfOru Leaves Madrid.

Special to THE Sun.
MADRID, April 2o.-United States
Minister Woodford has demanded and
received his passports and will leave
here tomorrow for the United States.
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One Solitary Drunk.

Before Judge Ball in Municipal Court
last night John Fitzgerald, charged with
drunkenness, was fined 81 and costs.
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"lhe Farmers Bank at George
town is holding worthless paper.
upon which money was raised to
buy Democratic votes for the last
ten years. jerome B. Bell, in
the Sunday Star.
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CHARGED WITH LIBEL.
Senator Kenney Causes the Arrest OF
the Editor OF One Paper and
Business Manager of
Another.

Special to THE SlN.
DOVER, Del, April 2O.--,James II. Bate
man, editor of the State Sentinel, was
arrested this afternoon at the instance OF
Senator X. K. kenney, charged with
criminal libel, and was held under
81, 900 bonds. kenneys friends depre-
cate the suit, a. they see it will antag-
onize even u friendly press against him
and think it a poor stroke Of policy.
Mr.. Dateman is charged with libel for
reprinting the article which appeared in
THE Sun of Wilmington, on March II,
under the caption "All Eyes on Ken
ncy."
Eli NJ. Shilling, business manager OF
TIE Sun was arrested late Yesterday
afternoon charged with criminal libel on
warrant issued by 11nited States sena.
tor Richard r. kenney.
In the warrant Mr.. Shilling is charged
with writing an article which appeared
in The Sun on March II under the
caption "All Eyes On kenney.'
MIR. Shilling gave bond for his appear
ance at the April term OF the Kent
County Superior Court which begins at
Dover next Monday.
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AN OPEN LETTER.

WrLMINGToN. Del, March IS, lS9S.
HON. EDWARD q. BRADFORD,
LEWIS G. VANDEGRIFT, ESQ.
GENTLEMEN OF THE FEDERAL
GRAND JURY, -
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COLD.
Glasgow


IT am going to keep the bond. am
going to vindicate the sound money
plank in the ST. Louis platform" So
says President Mckinley.
The Monetary commission in its re-
port printed this morning lays: We
recommend that it shall be provided by
law that all obligations Of the United
States, existing and future, shall be
payable in gold except when otherwise
expressly provided. BY the wise and
courageous action of its executive Off
GERS the government has upheld that
standard by paying it's obligations in
gold. But until such payment Is re-
CURED by law. and the door thus closed
to all question as to the meaning of the
word "coin'' in the obligations of the
government, we shall not have an es-
tablished gold standard in the full sense
of those words.
Now il congress will say Gold one Of
the most serious evils that threaten this
country will be knocked out. AS the
Monetary commission well says, the
gold standard is fact Of civilization.
Why should this highly civilized coun-
try longer hesitate to acknowledge that
fact in law?
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Nor ENTIHELY EM1NCIPArED.

1t is too bad that Woman does not
progress faster toward complete eman-
cipation. We suppose that any Of her
most solemn and impressive meetings
the appearance Of mouse. And some
thing that has just happened in Cincin-
natl indicates how thin the veneer is
with which advanced Woman has We
neered herself. One Of the institutions
Of Cincinnati is the Twentieth Cen
fury club, This club is composed Of
women who assemble weekly to discuss
grave topics, political and economic,
ana to settle such Of the worlds prob
lens as seem to need settling most. The
tally anxious to acquire franchise
rights; and all of them were supposed to
have lost interest in nearly everything
| except issues But the other day
while the club was meeting and discus
SiUS SOfll5 peculiarly kIOCIy question OIL
law or ethics, an Oriental person, bear
| ing a pack on his shoulders, strayed
into the lall of council Before his pres
ence was noticed, the Oriental person
had opened his pack and displayed an
assortment of eastern embroideries so
irresistibly attractive that the club in
stantly disintegrated for the time being
into a group of explanatory women,
who had forgotten all about the knotty
question and were intent only on bar
gains.
Imagine an assembly of men being
broken up by the display OF bargains in
cigars or rum, and imagine any vendor
of such things foolish enough to try to
sell his wares to such an assembly
while it was doing business. This Gin
] cinnati episode is a sad one. 1t will
make some people feel as the missionary
feels when he comes suddenly and I'm.
expectedly on group of converted can.
nibals backsliding at cannibal feast
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Youth and Age,

II youth could know what age knows with
out teaching,
Hopes instability and Loves dear folly, :.
The difference between practising and
preaching,
The quiet Charm that turks in melan-
choly;
The after-btterness of tasted pleasure;
That temperance Of feeling and words
Is health of mind, and the calm fruits Of
Have sweeter taste than feverish zeal ar
fords;
That reason has a joy beyond unreascn,
That nothing satisfies the soul like truth.
That kindness conquers In and out OF sea-
SON
If youth could know--why, youth would
not be youth.
If age could feel the matchmaking urg-
ence,
| The pulse of life that beats in youthful
veins,
And With its swift, resistless ebb and
sur9ence
Makes light of difficulties. sport of pains;
Could once. just once, retrace the path and
That l iove II foolish zeal, so crude, 50
young,
And flashes in quick eve and limb and
tongue,
Which Counting dross for gold, Is rich in
dreaming,
And, reckoning moons as suns, is never
cold,
And, having naught, has everything in
seeming
| If age could do all this age were not old
Susan Coolidge.
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numerous yet, but influential because
of their reputation for superior culture
and wisdom, because they express
themselves well, because they have un-
limited command of powerful means of
expression and because they tempt the
people with temptation to which all
rich and prosperous peoples are espec-
tally susceptible. the temptation to lazy,
sordid, selfish materialism, which they
attractively disguise as the Higher this,
that and the other. These persons con-
tinually urge upon the people of the
United States the adoption Of doctrines
and practices that differ in nothing
from the Chinese doctrines and prac-
tees that have brought China to her
present pass. They have the true Chi
nase contempt for the thought that a
great nation may be created and per-
mitted to exist for some better purpose
than to enjoy, in its luxurious home,
closed fast against the toll and turmoil
of the outer world, not actively harmful
but utterly selfish, elegant leisure, with
it's books, pictures, music and philos-
ophizings. They would have us despise
the soldier, as China has been taught
to despise him. They have found a
philosopher whom they would have us
take for our Confucius. They would
have us believe that we are, as to ag
gression and invasion, exempt, FOR
some mysterious reason, from the COM
mon lot of nations, even as the Chinese
have been taught to believe of them
selves They would have us think, even
as China has thought, that because of
| our vast territory, our immense popula-
| ton, our inexhaustible resources, all the
other nations of the earth dread us and
dare not lay finger on us. When the
possibility Of invasion is, suggested to
them, they talk Of overwhelming the
enemy by an uprising of the population,
Va NliflhS iitiii INV tAS SCt, Win q Aefi w
| sincerity and fine disregard of ways
and means that must remind every rea-
sonable hearer very strongly of the Son
of Heavens no more foolish or fatuous
Dragging about driving the Wojen to
their lairs.
There is more truth than poetry in
this, and 1t is well worth serious
thought.
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UNIMPORTANT.


HE doesn't seem to amount to much
in the community"
mo. He's so unimportant that no.
body ever sends him calendar. -
Washington Star.
A Vindication.--"H Have you anything
to say?" asked the sheriff as he strap
ped the murderer in the electric chair.
II just want to point out what fools
those people were who said was born
to be hanged replied the criminal with
a smile of triumph. philadelphia North
American.
Among the Reasons.-"You enjoy
coaching, do you? l never could see
where the fun comes in. One looks so
like darned fool, sitting up on a three
story coach and cavorting over the
highway to the footing of horn" Il
know it, but it isn't every darned fool
that can afford it."--Chicago Tribune.
Force of Habit-"The habits we form
in our youth" said the self-made phil
osopher, stick to US all through life
no matter how hard we may try to
Shave them off. Now, there's Quaker
son, for instance, who was brought ur
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QUE CHINESE TENDENCIES.


Poor old China! Has she lost all her
fighting quality, and is she going to be
"partitioned" without even struggling?
And is the United States in danger of
becoming like China? Some think that
China's fate should be warning to US
to carefully consider certain Chinese
tendencies that have shown themselves
of late in our national life and to look
to it that the nations great territory,
immense population, unlimited re-
sources and the like do not prove for the
United States the snares that her great
territory, immense population and I'M
limited resources have proved for China
and do not finally become the means
of involving this country in ruin like
that which has overtaken China The
Rochester Democrat puts this warning
powerfully. There are, it says, III this
country a number of persons, not very
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SANITARY GLOTH ES.

Sanitary clothes are the latest. OF
course all clothes are intended to be
sanitary and some OF them are so, but
the new sanitary clothes are not like
the ordinary sanitary clothes. Some
body has invented an ingenious method
Of preparing goods so as to insure to
the wearer less liability to the contrac-
ton of diseases from exposure to infeo-
ton. In carrying out this idea, the plan
pursued is to mix three parts Of qulnine
or antipyrine with one hundred parts
of water, the yarn for the fabric being
passed. through this solution and dried,
For the warps, from one to three per
cent. of the quinine or antipyrine Is
added to the sizing materials before
their passage through the size, and in
the treatment OF fabrics the same pro-
portion Of the drugs named is added
to the finishing mixture; in fact, this
method Of treatment assumes that the
proportion of any substance capable Of
acting adversely to fevers may be in
creased or diminished according to the
nature of the one used.
"A taking notion. Perhaps we shall
have by and by anti-consumption
clothes, anti-diphtheria clothes, anti
apoplexy clothes, etc., etc. 1t is rest
less world, and sanitary clothes will we
suppose, appeal to some of the restless
ones.
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in Philadelphia-loo at him" why,
what's he been doing?" Haven't you
heard? He's got the creeping paraly-
sis. Chicago News.
A young student in certain theologi-
cal seminary recently persuaded a fell
low student to listen to him while he re-
hearsed sermon. His subject was
Light" With a violent gesture with
the right arm he said: Blot out the
SUM" With similarly frantic move
ment of the left arm he roared: Blot
out the moon!" Then, with combined
gesture, made UP of both arms, he bel
lowed: blot out the stars!' But il
was enough. The auditor arose to leave
with a hoarse, cruel Whisper Turn
off the gas"-New York Observer.
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the London and Northwestern road and
its colleagues will at last begin the
great work, whose completion would
place them ahead of all rivals In the
time required between London and
GLASGOW
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England was at one time the center
of the needle making industry. Her
manufactures supplied the world. That
is no longer the case. We make excel
lent needles in this country, and have
done so for some time. According ia
the report Of American consuls in Ger
many that country has now acquired
eminence in the manufacture Of nee
dies, and in the last few years large
quantities, embracing all kinds. EN-.
broidery, knitting, darning, sewing and
sewing-machine needles, have been ex.
ported. vast quantity Of them have
gone to China. The figures from 1887 te
1896 show that the total quantity of nee.
dies exported from Germany was 15..
100000 pounds, valued at $4,000 900
Needles are small articles, sold for Z
small sum, but there is much money ir
them.
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The Boston Herald calls attention to
mn unusual situation. 1t appears that
the gold reserve Of the United States
treasury aggregates $180,647 100 and ex-
ceeds that Of the bank OF England by
$S,379, 725 During the year the great
English bank has losr much gold while
the United States treasury has made a
larger gain. Were it not for the tight
money market abroad, which makes it
profitable to loan the balance due us by
foreign countries in their markets, the
excess of our gold reserve over that of
the bank of England would be consid-
erably greater, for our reserve would
be much higher and Englands some
what lower.
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Indiana people proudly say that at
the rate at which it is now being paid
Off the debt of their State will be com
pletely wiped out by 1901. Then per-
haps some idiot will tell them that a
deficit is more pleasant than a sur
plus.
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Krupp, the great gunmaker, has re-
Gently completed some paper cannon
for the German army. Their calibre is
two inches and they are SO light that a
single soldier can carry one. At the
same time the resistance is greater than
that of a field piece of steel the same
size. It is not expected these paper
guns will replace those Of metal. They
are merely intended for use in portions
( Of the field where the taking of metal
guns is ifnpracticable.
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President Andrews most radical sug-
gestion In his address on education be-
fore the Illinois State Teachers associ-
alton was that "the school authorizes
should furnish to the pupils every day
an esthetic, high class, hygienic lunch
con-" And why not the same kind of a
breakfast and dinner?
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other smalI
advertisements, One Cent Word each IN
sertion. Five Cents Word for full week
(eeyen tlmes). T.,
n Display advertisements, per inch, one m ~
scrtion, 81. 20; each subsequent insertion A.
cents; one week. $500; one month"; Slo'
one year, $40. ~
Obituary Notices. in prose or verse; 10
riages. Deaths and Funerals so cents EACH
Local Notices Is cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited to their
own immediate business (all matter 70 De
unobjectionable), and their contracts 40 not
include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
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The close competition between British
railroads running into Scotland is re.
sponsible for the latest scheme to save
time, that of driving tunnel through
Shap Fell, which, if executed, will be
the longest tunnel in the world. being
just ten miles long, while that Of st.
Gothard, which at present enjoys the
distinction of being the longest, is nine
and a half miles from end to end The
question Of tunneling Shap Fell in or
der to secure the most direct route 10
Glasgow was first proposed in 1911
when the Lancaster and Carlisle line
was talked of, but the. great expense
has hitherto deferred the companies
from undertaking the work. Modern
improvements, however, have greatly
decreased the expense of tunneling and
as the rivalry of different roads has be-
come so acute as to take even seconds
Into consideration it seems likely that
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circumstances alter actions. Philip
Till, a condemned murderer in jail at
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, was reading
the Bible recently when the sheriff told
him that his execution was to be post
poned. He at once threw the Bible down
and lit cigarette.
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y They have a novel and apparently
dangerous idea for a bicycle race in Bel
GUM, where the competitors are taken
blindfolded to a place unknown to them
and left to find their way back as best
they can. The first man home is the
winner, and the difference in their time
Of arrival is both startling and anus
ing, as in many cases they go directly
away from the goal, instead Of toward
1t.
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Bleached Table Linens.
Half BIeached Table Linens.

Turkey Red Danask, fast colors,
choice designs, at 19c and 3 1C
100 9-4,,Tapestry Table Covers, fringed
borders, worth csc, 69c
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Mr.. Perks, member of parliament,
has proposed to the Methodists in Eng
land to collect 100000 guineas from as
many Methodists Ito commemorate the
close Of the eventful century and as
thanksgiving for the progress and
achievement Of Methodism."
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Standard Linens and COttOns.


values We emphasize this question
quality put
heseb nusb bear outh goodqua1 the world
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CONSISTING OF

Ladies' Umbrella Drawers made Of
Fruit Of the Loom cotton, deep CAM
brio, hemstitched ruffie 25c
Ladies Muslin Drawers, cluster tucks
and fine cambria rufHe 32c
Ladies' Muslin Gowns, Mother Hnb-
bard style, tucked yoke henstitch-.
ing, SIC
Ladies' Mother Hubbard Gown, made
from good muslin tucked yoke and
Hamburg trimmed 4Sc