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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-13

Tomorrow promises to be fair, and
rnther warmer. Saturday partly cloudy,
with slight change Of temperature.
The thermometer at w G. Taylor's
drug store, 80! King street, registered to :
day as follows;
o'c.oGli 10 o'clock / clock
III ca IL
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-13
Inquest Held

Coroner Vandever held an inquest
this morning, on the body of Mrs.
Amanda Fogg, who died suddenly
yesterday. A verdict Of death from
apopleXy was rendered.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-13

Every lie, errA, or snail, Is tho brink Of
a Itvjp,rc, tho depth Of witch rothing
but umu,,cieucc ran fathuu. harles
Re.do
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-13
CARD BASKET.

Court Stenographer e. @. Hardesty has
returned home from Georgetown.
Tile Junior Vaudeville Club, Of this city
gave 20 mlnstrcl entertainment in tho
school house nv Yorkiyn last evening
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-13
Time Flew,

Ahou! $3.50 worth Of jcwrlry including
watches were taken from tho residence of
Job II. Jack son at the Northwest corner
of Eleventh and West streets lust night.
The theft was committed during the abb
sence of the family at tho wedding OF J.
Montieth jackson aud Miss Gtetn Niolds.
The police have been nolilled and are
working on the case.
f. r. Green, Esq, of Kennott Square
Pa, visited this CITY to-day.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-13
Pension Increased.

Col John Wainwright hns secured an
increase to s. N month from Nov. 20thi
1857. Tor Jonathan Co,' Il this city, late
CO. b, As! h Regiment, 5 Colored M
fantry.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-13

A grand cake walk will take place at
the Odd Fellows Hall, cornor Of Third
King streets, on Friday evening the 14th
alton. Tickets 10 cents.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-13
Succota>li DC

? 8 oana for 25c. IIeiDzs Preserves Pure
Fruit & Sugar l5c h. los, large pruncs
POO, Fancy 4. Y, Choose l6o ID. J E.. SIN
Rles, Jack sou and Linden strce}1,
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-13
PHARMACIES

MITH-WIlLIAMS-On the 18th inst by the
Rev. John France, Sanford $. Smith Of this
city and MaryI. Williams, Of Claynont Del
WILLARD -WH[TE-In Philadelphia, VIM.
B, Willard and Laura NJ. White, both of
lltlia ok
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-13

Mrs. Hester keveille 50 years of age.
dropped dead at Milford on Wednesday
while about some homework.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-13

Nicholas Fidance will build five two
story houses at Fifth and Scott Streets.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-13

Half the Ills that man Ia heir to come
from ind digestion. Burdock Blood Bitters
strengthens and tones the st omach; makes
indigestion impossible. $500.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-13
E!l.i.il.N,IS IO-SiltiT,

Harvester Mission, Front Hnd Jefferson
Song service 80, prcachings O'clock this
evening hy Mr.. j. c. Spry,
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-13

St"ls the ache anl prevent, decay. Dents
iOolAHth" Gum. All druggists i cents.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-13
,JeWeIed Portieres.

For those who have ugly views from
their back windows or corridors lead
ing to back stairs, etc, it is quite a
serious matter as to how best TO hide
them. Draperies are expensive when
the material is good, and inexpensive
material gets easily tossed. Bead
blinds. which may be made with very
little trouble at home, are clean and
tidy. besides being pretty. and have the
further advantage of admitting the
light while preventing people from
looking into the room. Measure the
width of the window or doorway you
wish to hide and get a carpenter to
make narrow lath to fit it, with small
grooves all the way along at equal dis
tances and rather close together The
only thing you will then require is a
ball or two Of macreme cord and plenty
Of large glass beads in pretty colors,
TO mix too many colors is a mistake.
Thread the string with bead and knot
to prevent its slipping do this at inter
walls all the way down the string unIu
it is the length required 1t is advisa-
bic to tie each string securely on the
groove in the wooden lath as you go
along, as they are apt to tangle if
loose. Try to have the strings as close
together as possible; the effect is quite
spoiled if they are straggly or far apart.
BY the exercise of little patience and
ingenuity pretty pattern of flowers or
birds may be introduced. Beads suita-
BILE for this purpose may be purchased
at a very low price.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-13

The ear was taught English, which
ne speaks without any accent by a
Mr.. Heath, gentleman who was fond
OF boxing. An interesting picture is
given by French writer of the early
life OF the young ruler of the Russias
Nicholas and his brother were brought
up with very little ceremony. though
they We're well educated particularly
in religious matters. But their SIM
days were not passed in a fashion
which the old Puritans would have an
proved of. for on that particular dav
they entertained at dinner their how
and girl friends, and very lively these
banquets were. The manners at the
table of the future car and his broth
ers and friends remind one rather Of
the days of Peter the Great and the
way in which that monarch carried IN
for we are told that there was no end
TO the tricks the host and their small
quests played. From end to end of the
table there used to be continuous fir
ing OF bread pellets which were ner.
petually striking princely noses o.
landing in royal mouths"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-13
The ylc,ssitudes Of an Emperor.

The vicissitudes which Louis Ma
poleon experienced almost from the
cradle to the grave were probably all
but unexampled. He was a fugitive
before he could speak articulately. In
the interval between his goth and his
40th year he was a prisoner in Stras-
burg, Lorient, Ham and the Concier-
gerie. He was an outlaw for more than
half his life. There were incidents, at
Strasburg, and later at Boulogne,
which brought upon him the mock and
jeer of Europe He carried baton as
a special constable in Park Lane on
Chartists' Day Then, by a sudden
turn of fortune, he became President
Of the French Republic. The Coup
d'Etat made him Emperor of the
French; and thenceforth for fifteen
years he was, perhaps, the most-con
sidered man of Europe. 1t was said OF
him that on being asked whether he
should not find il difficult to rule the
French nation he replied, "Oh, no!
nothing is more easy. II leur faut une
guerre tous les quartre ans. (They
just need a war every four years.) This
policy held good in a modified degree.
The Crimean war was for him a sue
cess, although not precisely triumph;
the Italian campaign, in spite of its
hard-fought victories, ended abruptly
in approximation to failure. The
Mexican expedition was an utter fiasco.
Yet Napoleon might have gone on wiz
his program of war every four years
but for the circumstances that there
happened to be in Europe in the mid
die Sixties an infinitely stronger,
more masterful and more ruse man
than the dreamy and decaying Ma
poleon. When he and Bismarck
walked along the Biarritz beach in Oc-
tober, 1865, Bismarck expounding his
political speculations as they strolled
is he mad?" the Emperor whisper
ed to Prosper Merimee, on whose arm
he leaned. Napoleon had very soon to
recognize that madness had no part
in the character of Otto Won Bis
marck. The Prussian Premier was his
superior in energy, in determination,
and in fnesse; and he foiled the
French Emperor at every turn.-Archi-
bald Forbes ("Life of Napoleon HID
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-13

Any one can have splendid furniture
In his rooms if he is gifted with the
genius of Balzac. NJ Cormon visited
him in 1910. The room was Uttered
with books, proofs and papers. Balzac,
his shirt unbuttoned and his braces
about his hips, was grinding out copy
at lightning speed On the walls were
strange inscriptions in chalk: Here a
picture by Raphael" Here a Gobelin
tapestry, Here a Stylobate of Cedar"
Here mouldings, Trianon Style" Bal
FAC had not had the time nor money to
get all these things, but he knew where
they ought to be; in his imagination he
could see the room completed, and that
was enough. New York World.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-13

sent delegates. John A. King of New
York acted as chairman.
Mr.. Bovay is now living in Brooklyn.
n. Y, with an only daughter, who is
married to a clergyman. Though 81
years of age, and for many years re-
tired from active life, he finds himself
still interested in the affairs of the
world He points with modest pride to
the success of his great undertaking in
the political field Under date of April
3d. 1899, he writes to an old Ripon ac-
quaintance, referring to two late Ripon
residents who could speak of their own
knowledge on the subject.
Yes, the first republican organiza-
ton was made in Ripon, Wis, and
there is no doubt whatever about it,
There lives not the man who can raise
and successfully dispute it. You will
recognize the names of the witnesses
in the book which | sent you-Capt.
Mapes Judge +. l.. Runals and others
and it is not to be supposed that these
men were specially friendly TO me, and
therefore partial, for they were not.
Capt Mapes was a friend off and on.
but Judge Runals was not even so
much as that-our relations were al
ways strained The testimonials are
absolutely true, and it is also true and
undeniable that the republican name
was heard in and about Ripon for
months before it was known or even
thought of elsewhere as the correct
name for the party which all men of
sense could see was about to arise.
Il was then SO years old, and good
for something; now l am 81, and good
for not Ig. but the old anatomy still
moves IN. Yours truly,
Brooklyn, n. Y. A. f. BOVAY."
Maj. Bovay, as he was titled by serv-
Ice during the civil war. was born in
Adams county, New York. AT % he
graduated from Norwich (Vt.) Univer-
sity. Then he took to teaching. and
was made principal of the Glen Falls
and Oswego academies in New York
state, and later became professor of
languages in Bristol fPa.) Military Col
lege. During this time he had been
studying law, and was admitted to the
bar in 1886. He was successful prac-
titioner of law. as far as the opportun-
tiles of rural town like Ripon permit
ted. He was deep thinker and a
deep reader, and winning and con-
sentative leader of men.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-13

He was persistent, and won over
enough men to make his representa-
tions have weight with others. Mr.
Bovay then opened correspondence
with Horace Greeley of the New York
Tribune, the most powerful newspaper
in the country at the time. Mr. Gree
ley seems to have looked upon Mr..
Bovay's views with great favor, for
very soon they appeared in the col
umns of the Tribune The publication
of Mr.. Bovay's proposition. at time
when all were eagerly looking for
something to happen. no doubt effect
I'd all that Mr.. Bovay had hoped for
Michigan has laid claim to the honor
of naming the republican party. but
that claim is easily disestablished by
letter which Horace Greeley wrote to
Jacob NJ. Howard prominent member
Of the mass convention which was to
be held at Jackson, Mich, on July 6,
1854. In that letter Mr.. Greeley rec
ommends that the Michigan conven-
tion adopt the name Republican" in
anticipation of Wisconsin. her sister
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-13
TRICKS THAT ARE LIGHT.
And Cause Objects to Shine Forth When
All About Is Dark

Many seemingly wonderful tricks
can be performed with the use of a few
simple chemicals. One of them is the
ball of fire. Take for this barium sui
plate (CP), one part; magnesium car
Donate tCP), one part; gum tragacanJh
q. s. This should be mixed and rolled
into marbles and kept at a red heat
for about an hour, then allowed to
cool slowly and placed in a glass-stop-
pered bottle. A few hours before using
place in the sun, and the marbles at
once become luminous. At the enter
tainment ordinary marbles are passed
among the audience, one or more of
the luminous marbles being concealed
in the hand The exhibitor then takes
a marble from some one in the au-
dience, holds it between his thumb and
forefinger, blows upon it, and asks to
have the lights turned down. AS this
Is done he substitutes the luminous
marble. and the mysterious light is
seen. This is handed around, and
changes again as the light is turned
on, when the magician presents to the
audience several of the ordinary mar
bies as souvenirs. Another trick is
very effective. Take two similar
punches of artificial flowers; brush one
over with glue or mucilage and powder
it with the dust from one of the mar
bles described; then place in the sun.
When taken into darkened room lum-
nous flowers are seen. The magician
exhibits the flowers that have not been
prepared and shows that there is moth
ing peculiar about them: then, as the
light is turned down, he substitutes
the concealed bunch, blows upon the
flowers, and. presto! displays to the
astonished observers a luminous bunch,
each flower of which stands out as if at
white heat. Luminous letters can be
written and exhibited in the dark to
the wonder of the audience. Luminous
ink is made by placing piece of phos-
phorus about the size of pea in a test
tube with little olive oil. Place the
tube in water bath until the oil be-
comes heated and the PHOSPHORUS
liquid Shake well and pour into a
bottle with glass stopper Admit air
Just previous to using it, and the liquid
will become luminous tracery in the
dark. Water can be rendered luminous
in very simple manner Dissolve
small piece of phosphorus in ether for
several days in glass-stoppered bot
tie. In this place a lump of sugar,
then drop the sugar in water, which
will at once become luminous. Lum-
inous paints can be made any color
green, yellow, violet or blue-and if
applied to various objects make Won
derful display at night.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-13
Few Timely Pointers.

The up-to-date farmer has learned
the wisdom OF doing his own thinking,
and in selecting a binder or mower to
weigh carefully the actual points of
superiority and to avoid mere talk
ing" or selling" points. The life"
OF machine depends largely on its
main frame, which should be solid
enough to outwear the working parts
and yet not heavy enough to tear IT.
self to pieces through its own inertia.
The Deering Ideal Binder has high
carbon steel frame, hot-riveted at the
Joints. This machine has stood the
most severe tests ever put on binder.
dt has a cutting apparatus that will cut
any crop that grows; elevators that
will elevate anything it cuts; a simple
reel with greater range of adjustment
than any other, operated with a single
lever; the famous Deering Knotter and
Binder which never misses; the only
bundle carrier worthy OF the name,
and finally Deering Roller and Ball
Bearings. making it the llghtest draft
binder that ever cut a swath.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-13
A. E. BOyay, Ripon, Wis.,, is the Godfather of
the Republican Party.

While the country was at fever heat
over the agitation of the slavery ques-
ton, given expression to in the Kan
sas-Nebraska bill, there were two men
in the hamlet of Ripon Wis, A. T..
Bovay, lawyer, and ]. Bowen,
country editor, who met to talk over
the situation and to deplore the utter
incapacity of the Wing party, whose
members in congress were divided, to
deal with the great problem. This con-
ference resulted in plan to call a
mass meeting on Feb 20, 1854, in the
congregational church, a little white
frame building on the crest of Col
lege hill
Citizens came from all around the
sparsely settled neighborhood to attend
the meeting. 1t was a momentous oc-
casion for this little burg of few hun
dred inhabitants, remote from metro
politan life and ideas, and practically
shut off from communication.
The meeting was a success, accord
ing to the statements made by those
who attended A. e. Bovay here pre-
sented the proposition that the only
hope of defeating the extension of
slavery lay in the disrupting of the or
ganization of the wing party and
uniting the anti-slavery supporters
now in the ranks of three parties,
wings, free soilers and democrats, I'M
der new name. 1t was argued that
such scheme could not be made effec-
tive, coming from a rural community
without the means of bringing it be-
fore the people at large. Undaunted
by the hugeness and apparent hope
lessness of the undertaking. however
1t was agreed that another meeting be
held to give the movement some form
Then and there Mr. Bovay says,
was created the republican party"
Firty-four citizens, comprised of
members of the three parties then in
the foreground of politics, met on Feb.
70 and passed a set of resolutions, bit
terly denouncing the measures before
congress which would permit slavery
to Kansas Nebraska and Missouri. and
setting forth, among other things
that the passage of these bills Gf
pass they should) will be the call to
arms of great northern party, such
a one as the country has not hitherto
seen. composed of wings, democrats
and free sellers; every man with a
heart in him united under the single
banner cry of Repeal! Repeal. !"
A third meeting was held on March
20, upon the publication of the follow
ing call in the Ripon Herald:
"A bill expressly intended to extend
and strengthen the institution of
slavery has passed the senate by a
large majority, many northern sena-
tors voting for it, and many more sit
ting in their seats and not voting at
all 1t is evidently destined to pass the
house and become law, unless its
progress is arrested by a general up
rising of the north against it.
Therefore we, the undersigned. be-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-13
Ivy Absorbs Moisture.

There is a current opinion that ivy
has a tendency to rot the thing to
which it clings This is true Of large
number of other climbing plants, but
not of ivy, for it renders the walls OF
almost every house to which it clings
entirely free from damp, extracting eY-
cry particle Of moisture from wood,
brick or stone for its own sustenance.
This it does by means of its tiny roots,
which can work their way even into
the hardest stone When the walls
are well covered with ivy the overlap
ping leaves will conduct water falling
upon them from point to point until
the ground is reached without allow
ing the walls to receive any moisture
whatever from the beating rain. II
there should be an exceptional case OF
UNCOVERED walls showing signs OF
dampness, that will be found TO arise
from their having been erected on q
wet and improperly drained site.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-13
Ginnt ma sin Craving.

Paris correspondence London Tele-
graph: Among the hospital patients
Of Or. Lucan Championniers is man
seven feet four inches in height He
is 81 years old. and is still growing. He
takes after his father, who was seven
feet eight. whereas his mother was of
short stature. At the age of is he
was a youth below middle height, but
after an illness he grew four inches in
a few DAYS. second illness produced
another rapid increase in his height.
Af,er that he had several successive
attacks of a facilitating complaint On
recovery he invariably found he had
grown several inches, till, when at
p. he went to serve in the army he had
reached seven feet. He was the
Youngest &C twelve children, and. for
tunately for them. he is the tallest of
them al by foot or so.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-13

state in the movement, having been ad-
vised that Wisconsin intended to adopt
that name.
Michigan did so. and to her, no
doubt. is due the honor of first fling
ing the republican banner out over
state, for the Wisconsin republicans
did not hold their state convention UNI
til July IS following. at Madison. There
can be no doubt from this and other
letters that Mr. Boyay, who had all
this time been in communication with
Mr.. Greeley. and who had worked all
along on the idea, suggested the name
to Greeley and impressed upon him its
special merit.
The party gained its first claim 20
national recognition in 1856. two years
after the Ripon meeting, when Charles
Durkee was sent from Wisconsin as a
republican to the United States senate
In the same year the national party
was organized at Pittsburg, Pa. at a
convention to which twenty-four states
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-13

lieving the community to be nearl!
unanimous in opposition to the ne
farious scheme, would call public
meeting of the citizens of all parties,
to be held at the school house in Ripon
on Monday evening, March 20 at $50
o'clock, to resolve to petition and to
organize against it.
y. BOWEN,
"A. LOPER.
IT. J.. REYNOLDS,
"a Il. BOVAY,
JACOB WOODRUFF.
And so others"
The five men whose names are given
constituted a committee on organiza-
ton. who formally christened the par
ty, and who are its godfathers. The
committee was a representative one.
Mr.. Bowen was a groceryman and
banker: Mr. Lopez was farmer and
Justice of the peace; Mr.. Reynolds was
a farmer: Mr.. Woodruff was a black
smith and nurseryh-an, and Mr.. Bovay
was a lawyer. All of these men have
since passed away with the exception
of Mr.. Bovay.
The meeting was attended by both
men and women from the surrounding
country. Mr. Bovay here offered the
name Republican" for the new party,
but cautioned against its use until the
party should take on a national char
acter. Addresses were made deploring
the inability of the national parties to
throw off the yoke of slave power. The
rank and file of the wings were COM
pletely demoralized, it was charged.
The whig leaders had completely lost
their power. and slavery sentiment. pro
and con, had superseded all else. The
democratic party had espoused the
cause of the Shareholder, and there
was but one thing left to d }. and that
was TO create new party. which would
antagonize the democratic party on the
ground. whole-hearted and without
compromise.
With the election of Franklin Pierce
in 1852. a clear victory for slavery. the
anti-slavery northeTners were touched
to the quick. Ii was evident that some
thing must be done, and that imme-
diately. and Mr.. Bovay did not pro-
pose to wait for others to take steps
in that direction. With the assistance
of those who had been with him from
the start in this movement he set about
the actual work of organizing in a sys-
tematic way He found men on every
side who were willing enough to sup
port him in his views, but they chung
TO the bulwarks of the old party, and
pleaded that the good of the new con-
form to the lines of the old. Bovay
would not listen to this. II was an
impossible combination in his mind.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-13
Possibilities OF Language.

New York Tribune: A number OF
commercial travellers were telling
stories in an uptown restaurant last
night and this was youched for by one
who used to be railroad conductor IN
eastern Pennsylvania Ny train had
always reached Lebanon just after an
express train. but the schedule was
changed so as to bring my train INTO
the station first. A voluble Pennsylv1-
MIA Dutch woman was regular pas
senger on market days, as my train
stopped at her station, while the ex-
press whizzed by The first evening
that ran my train in ahead OF the ex-
press she was much astonished and de-
lighted. She rushed up to me and ex-
claimed, in the high key and peculiar
dialect of that region: Wy, you're
early of late: you're first at last; yo3
used to be behind before!