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, 1899-02-11
IN SOCIAL C|RLCES
SOCIETY ALTERNATING TILL AF-
TER THE STORM AND
LENT.

The Fastnacht Fest at Maennerchor
Halo. A. r. Masquerade Ball on
pany and Yon Yonson Next Week
Lent Begins Next Wednesday.
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BOREASAT H|SWORST
ALL RECORDS SURPASSED BY THE
PRESENT LONG-CONTINUED
STORM.

Old-Timers Nonpulsed -Herculean
Work of the Men Who Manage the
Rail-L0okout the Storm Center
Overland Outstrips All Competition
in the Battle With the Elements.
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Last years profits of John Wanna
makers Philadelphia and New York
stores are said to have been 81, zoo, 900.
He attributes his success to the gener-
Gus use of newspaper advertising.
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be admitted free and will be given a
treat. Refreshments will be served
and there will be a good time for every
body.
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The round of social functions has
been considerably lmpeded by the dis
agreeable weather and the intense cold
we have been having. A number Of
events. however, are being rushed on
account of the near approach of the
Lenten season. Although quite a mum
Der of people will observe the quiet
season, there are many more whose
winter festivities will continue through
FEBRUARY and Mrach and for these a
number of social events are in prepara-
ton, including the Knights of Pythias
ball or the goth and the P. o. S. of A.
entertainment on the 22nh Of this
month.
The second night of the fastnicht
fest witnessed a good crowd in spite of
u~nfavorable weather conditions. The
kraut walk was omitted as some
of the participants were unable to be
present. Dancing vas INDUCED in till
a late hour. The masquerade comes off
tonight. 1t is understood there will
be a large number of maskers. Prizes
will be offered for the most original
costumes.
The sauer kraut walk which was ar
ranged for last night will be given to-
night and will be a novel and very
amusing affair.
A number of Laramie people are anx-
iously awaiting the presentation in this
city of Rastand's Cyrano de Bergerac.
The best local talent has been secured
for the play and rehersals commenced.
900
The valentine l gave you first
Took all the pennies I could chase
An apoplectic heart immersed
In foamy sea- Of paper lace,
With sentiments in coy ntreat
Beneath the flap. Twas rather neat.
The next l sent was but a scroll,
Containing lines in praise of you,
A fond effusion Of my soul,
With simi.ies net strictly new
And hints hat | had found my queen;
The thing one does at seventeen.
The next / sent was dollhouse bred,
With stems l purchaser by the yard,
A tissue sheath about the head,
Attended by a formal card.
No message; though my heart was
warm,
That sort of thing was beastly form.
Not gifts today, but hot demands,
You'll find beneath this seal of mine.
Dear love, l come with empty hands
To ask you for a valentine.
For all these years of loyal fee,
Have you no valentine for me?
-Grisnold North in Munsey's.
900
Custer Post No. 1 will give its annual
masquerade ball on next Monday even
ing, the day following the anniversary
of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. A
grand supper will be served by the la
dies Of the Woman's Relief Corps from
5 until Z and a dance supper later in
the evening. The menu is as follows:
Chicken Pie.
Baked Beans Brown Bread
Rolls
Cabbage Salad Pickles
Cake
Jelly Oranges
Tea Coffee
The ball and supper should be well
patronized by our citizens. The fol-
lowing, from Lincoln's second inaug-
ural address, well illustrates the man
ner of the noble work carried on by the
Woman's Relief Corps: with malice
toward none, with charity for oil, let
us strive on to finish the work we are
in; to bind up the nations wound. 10
a + for him who shall have borne the
battle, and for his widow and or
phans."
o0o +
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900

A sister Of Mrs. Sprague, from New
York, is visiting her for a few weeks.
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ON THE RANGE.

gencies and far in advance of would-be
competitors.
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Owing to the fire at the Durlacher
house this week the last meeting Of the
d. Phs, which was to have been held
with Miss Blanche Durlacher has nee
~essarily been postponed Indefinitely
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Furnished housekeeping rooms Tor
rent. Saver Hansen, ISL 9Th street.
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900

A number of Laramie people are anx-
iously awaiting the presentation in this
city of Rastand's Cyrano de Bergerac.
The best local talent has been secured
for the play and rehersals commenced.
Backbone., 1899-12-01
Wanamaker Disappointed.

"An eminent Christian merchant of
national reputation" doubtless John
Wanamaker, sends the National Ad-
vocate, New York, an earnest protest
against President McKinley's growing
subserviency to the liquor interests
He expresses his disappointment in
him thus:
When I voted for Mr.. Mckinley I
was told not only that he was Meth
odist, but that he was Sunday school
teacher, a class leader and licensed to
preach. I thought surely the best in
terests of this country will be safe in
his hands. I thought that the repre-
sentative of church so pronounced
in it's denunciation Of the liquor traffic
would certainly stand by the prin-
ciples of his own church, and that in
him the cause of temperance would
have a staunch friend and advocate.
But how is it? The very reverse
what we thought we had a right to
anticipate.
1t is becoming very evident that the
liquor power has it's grip so tightly
about the throat of the president that
he dare not utter the word which his
conscience would dictate. My oppor-
tunities for being informed are con-
lSiderable and warrant mo in tho ho1iof
that the liquor power was never so
thoroughly in dominion with the ad-
ministration at Washington as it is
to-day.
Backbone., 1899-12-01
PROGRESSOF THE r1OVEMENT

The following were among the resolu-
tions adopted at the national W. c. T. U.
convention:
1--WE protest against the repeal of the
prohibitory law for the territory of Alaska,
and we urge that such Legislation with re-
spect to our newly-acquired territory may
be enacted as will render it impossible that
the United States flag shall, to the people
of other lands, stand as the symbol of the
saloon"
whereas, God created man in His own
image, male and female, and gave them
dominion, therefore we believe in the equal
right of both to hold opinions and to ex-
press the same in the home, on the plat
form, in the pulpit and at the ballot box.''
In the election just past the Ohio Anti
Saloon League made fight against John
A. Caldwell, the Republican candidate for
Lieutenant overnor, a notorious whisky
man. Just before election the State
League flooded the State with small sam
pie ballot, headed, 'Take this sample bal
lot to your voting booth.'' On this ballot
there were given the Republican and
Democratic candidates, with a check mark
opposite the name of the Democratic can
didate for Lieutenant Governor, A. W..
Patrick, and check opposite the name of
every Republican candidate except the can
didate for Lieutenant Governor.
The character of this move can be bet
ter understood in the light of these facts:
that there was a full Prohibition ticket in
the field, that none of the other Repub-
lican candidates were more hostile to the
saloon than is Caldwell, and that in Ohio,
as nearly everywhere, the Republican
party stands for the perpetuation of the
saloon.
The Meneley Trio has been spending
three weeks in Missouri. Miss Eva M.
Shontz has organized a Young Peoples
Christian Temperance Union in Iowa. Mis-
souri, will wheel in line this month. Cali
fornia has been divided into three districts.
H. c. Needham will run the southern dis
trict, ]. w. Webb the central, S. P. Meads
the northern. -. WOolley has lately been
stirring up Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and
Indiana. The great and only o. W.
Stewart has held ten county rallies in Wis
consin under the auspices of Chairman
Clayton. Dean was egged and Taylor
stoned in Iowa.
Backbone., 1899-12-01
An Evangelist's Queries.

Why do people who profess to love
righteousness defend the President
and his party? Do they not know
that expansion of the traffic in liquor
is as much the policy of the party as
territorial expansion? The writer
has a curio in his possession, the ia
nous Blaine beer and malt pamphlet,
known only to a. comparative few as
once an outburst of party policy, by
which a Secretary of State turned U.
8. consuls into drummers for the
liquor dealers at government expense
on the request of few leading brew
ers of this country Is it any wonder
that the export of liquor increases
when Uncle Sam sends his army?
Who is going to strike this evil if
extension of the traffic by canteen or
Christian ministers are dumb? The
license is the barbarism of covetous-
ness. Crew e. S. DUNHAM.
Delaware, o.
Backbone., 1899-12-01

teen alone could never have controlled
the War Department and the Presi-
dent in the face of public opinion, but
that "the liquor traffic, with it's wealth
and influence promptly exerted for the
defense of the canteen, has accom-
|plished this" =.
The Wine and Spirit Gazette says
that although "the Sunday liquor laws
of today are substantially the same as
they were at the time Theodore Roose-
velt was President of the Board of Po-
lice Commissioners, yet Governor
Roosevelt, though the highest Execu-
tive officer of the state, would today no
more dare to have these laws enforced
than he would dare to set himself in
opposition to any of the crooked leg
islative schemes of the Republican
boss" ~
Backbone., 1899-12-01
With Our Correspondents.
Official vs.. Public Sentiment.

OfflClal VS.. Pubic SentlmenC.
t'The Squawville Squealer, is about
right" remarked Titus, philosophical
ly, looking up from that edifying sheet,
''when it says that ye can't inforce the
prohibition law, nor no other law
without publick sentiment. "Meb-
by" rejoined Zeke, "Mebby. But I've
sorter figgered that it was more a
matter of official sentiment than O.
publick sentiment. Fer instance, they
hes been law in our town that the
pesky bikes shoulden't ride the side
walks, but they ride all the same. The
law wasn't enforced. Bimeby the may
or had it put in the paper that folks
as rid on the sidewalk would be arrest
ed, and they quit ridin' Then the law
was enforced and the change took
place over night. An twa'nt no change
in publick sentiment, but in official.
N'York had run wide open fer hun
merit years. Teddy Roswell was made
police commissioner an it was run
tight shut Folks sed publick senti-
ment was fer the open policy. Dunno
if it was or not, and nobody nos, but
everybody nos that Teddy's sentiment
was to have the law obeyed, and twas.
But not because of publick sentiment,
r lack of it. Think it over, Titus
B'leve you'll find that it's official senti-
ment as does the job"
w. C. CALDERWOOD.
Minneapolis.
Backbone., 1899-12-01
LOWell's Challenge.

We will speak out. we will be heard
Though all earth's systems crack,
We will not bate single word
Nor take letter back.
We speak the truth, and what care we
For kissing and for scorn,
While some faint gleamings we can see
OF freedoms coming mern?
Let liars fear, let towards shrink
Let traitors turn away;
Whatever we have dared to think
That dare we also say.
Backbone., 1899-12-01
Get Together is the Word.

A Prohibition conference took place
at Sioux Falls, S. D., Oct. 26. Among
other things it resolved that mo
Christian can consistently support po-
litical parties or men that continue the
iniquitous license system. Therefore,
all Christians, without regard to pre-
vious political affiliations, should unite
in the support of party that stands
for Prohibition in it's platform
The Christian Prohibition League
movement was adopted and E. D. Han
son was elected general organizer. A
campaign for prohibition is to be in
augurated in the cities of the state at
the spring elections, and an organizer
is to be put in the field, if possible, for
the Prohibition party.
Backbone., 1899-12-01
Boiled Down.

The Canadian Royal Templar says
that the next plebiscite will be differ
ent." ut will be the Dominion gen
eral election. When it comes we shall
see how many voters meant what they
said when they kicked over the treat
ment they received after the last pie
biscite."
The New Voice says that the can
Backbone., 1899-12-01

The republic of the Dutch, South
Africa, has ordered all rum shops
away from the vicinity of the gold
fields of Pretoria. This is a war
measure. ...
Backbone., 1899-12-01

The Intercollegiate Prohibition AS
sociation held it's annual convention at
Delaware, Ohio. It's new officers are:
President-D. Leigh Colvin, Wes-
leyan University, Delaware, o.
Vice President-C. L. Maxf1eld, Kali
amazoo College, Michigan.
Secretary-Edith Smith, Alumna of
Hedding College, Abingdon, Ill.
Treasurer-W. w. Lucas, Boston
University, Boston, Mass.
Backbone., 1899-12-01

Just before election Truth, the De-
troit, Mich, liquor paper, contained
the portraits of the Republican and
Liberal Democrat candidates for
mayor side by side. and over them,
in big type, this: 'Take your choice,
gentlemen; you can't lose."
Backbone., 1899-12-01

A grand banquet was recently given
to the officers of Colonel Funston's
famous regiment, the Twentieth Kan
sas. Beside each plate were five wine
glasses, but were turned down.
Backbone., 1899-12-01

The state liquor organ said before
election:
'The Republican candidate for lieu
tenant governor of Ohio is the at
torney for the Cincinnati Liquor
League. And he'll be elected" And
he was.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-03-09
LARGE FIRE N DENTON.
Two stores and Slus Dweiiinz Houses
Bsrned-Niae SAMPLES Homeless.

Two Stores and @gue DWeitnZ HOUSES
Barned-Sise tsmiiJss Hpnsiess.
Denton. nd. March 3. "A FIRE which
began AZ 2 O'Clock yesterday morning
destroyed q large part Of the business
gectiOn II Denton, the county sat Of
Caroline county. Two stores and nine
dwelling houses were burned and nine
families we're rendered homeless. The
total valuation Of property destroyed
vas about $4,000. in large part in
cured.
The following are the lnsses:
X. IL Collins, store STOCK. =, 90,
with an insurance IT 5l-DD.
John W. CLARK, two dwelling houses,
&. 20: no insurance.
Robert g. Stewart, dwelling house,
SI. With an Insurance Of $500 and
s50D on furniture.
Mrs. Annie H. Downes, two store
buildings and three dEei!ings, insured
for $500, which covers loss.
Joseph Spence. stock Of groeerie:
and household goods worth s6O0; DC
/ insurance.
Z. Kent Williams, furniture, S3l0.
William u. Gooiee, $40; no in
suraDce.
Beniah Kinnamon, dwelling, $1,000
no insurance; furniture mostly saved
I. Mrs. Nicholson, $50; insured, bu
amount not known.
i VI. Frank Towers, dwelling, $1,000
4 insured for sl,0J.
Total valuation, $1,000.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-03-09

All raouireuepts. He Is one Of the oest
isxye1s "a TIE country. He IS abso.
lussIy upright. He Is a mn ..
charming social qualities. he sili %
a loss TO the Senate. but an acquisition
TO the bench.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says
"Senator Graz Of DelavaTs VII. no!
close his public career with the emu q
his term il the United States SENATE.
The. announcement from Washington
thst he will be appOieted to the
additional iudgeship created by Con.
vress for the district composed OF
PENNSYLVANIA. New jersey and Deia-
var. will be received with satisfaction
eTeryShere. Mr.. Gray is one OF the
mos. experienced Of our pubic men.
Although Democrat, ne was strong
enough 70 oppose the crazy doctrines
Of Brysnism. he was honured by the
/ President IS one fitted to go 70 Paris
and tase part in the peace negotiations.
4 His splendid judgment in those long
/ ard exasperating conferences was q
great aid 70 the American con-
4 nlissioners. 1t would give more salts
/ faction i Senator Gray were to be kepi
more prominently before the peopla
than a iudgeship will permit, but tn.
| Bench will secure well balanced and
/ able man. We do not be.ieTe that II
! would be possible for President Nc
1 kinney to make better selection.
Ii is gratifying TO the people o.
Delaware to note these splendid pubiit
tributes to thair distinguished fellow
| citizen
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-03-09

had earned It and should have il The
r.satioa Eaz lost.
At IL o'eiosx sIf. Robertson moved
that al sDrFnMsnt h. sastss until ssa.1r-
siay esening. ID pEGeg that the regular
buaint..s VI the STATED nesting could
H. tzkea III. The motion was loss by
= lie vote.
Five niEutes lstas President Laitch
declared Co1Eci. adjourned and be
aGd al II the othe. Republican mem
haYs uaikad ont, thus breaking the
quqKur- The Republicans left in such
hurry that gns 81 them forgot ~ put
| lis .u6Ds.s DO and sant q friend II 10
csrry them ogt 10 him.
| Esf0Fe al IF the Republicans had
time u eseape Mr.. Healeg mo5sd that
Mr. Leary act As psesideat pro TEN.
rot recognizing the ad!ourn1lsnt, but
the Others evidently thought the
| motioa Vas a Joke and no action Eas
/ taken IN il.
BALM Ryan, Hhoee duty il Vas to
/ collect the ballots ezch time a Ectt
was taken, eTideatiy became weary
I after the 18th ballot had been taken.
/ az he went tD the clerks Office and
exchanged his shoes foE a pair o.
/ sliSleYs
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-03-09
s.oLI4rfOs Claims.
Bill Passes Both Houses of cansress for
Their settlement.

A bill for the settlement OF French
spoIiation claims has passed both
Houses of Congress. According to q
historical authority, these claims arose
from damages done to American ships
and cargoes by tine French prior to the
convention between the United States
and France, ratified July 3lst, 1901.
When the United States presented
these claims originally they were esti-
mated at SO, 900. The amount Of
the claims subsequently presented for
damages arising out of the joint actions
of the governments of France and
Spain in the seizure of American yes
sells, according to recent Congress
sional publication giving an itemized
| list of the claimants, attorneys and
names of the vessels, was 81. $50, IA. 30.
= Tho act of February Sd, 1893, entitled
"a bill for tho adjustment and pay
ment of certain claims against the gov
eminent of the United States,'' under
| the provisions of an act of March 3,
| 1883, which is the measure that has
now passed the two houses of Congress,
provide in it's original form for an APP
preparation of Loo. 453 for paying of
| claims for spoilation by the French
| prior to 1901.
In the list of claimants appears the
name of Thomas +. Bayard, admins
traitor of Thomas N. Francis, for $3.50. 92,
interest in the brig Lady Washington,
and for 1852, interest in the snow
Roston
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-03-09
cBICAGo & ALros.
George Gould and the Is. & q. Included
AInonr the Owners.

Chicago, ILL.,, March John J.
Mitchell, president of the Illinois
Trust and Savings Bank, upon re-
ceiying word from New York that
majority of the stock of the Chicago e.
Alton had been deposited with the
United States Trust Co., and that
pledges had been given for the deposit
for many more shares, gave out the
names of the members of the pur-
chasing syndicate. They are George
Gould, president of the Missouri
Pacific; Jacob Chit, chairman Of the
Board of the Baltimore & Ohio James
Stillman, president of the National
Bank of New York, representing the
Rockefeller holdings in the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas, and F. ii. Hartman,
chairman of the Board of the Union
Pacific, representing the Vanderbilt
interests. Mr.. Hartman is also under
stood to represent to some extent the
Illinois Central, which is indirectly
interested in the deal.
Beyond the expenditure of So. 600
for the improvement of the property
generally, and another $1,000, 0O0 10 be
set aside for tho work of elevating the
| tracks of the company at Chicago, it
is understood that the syndicate has
not yet made any definite plans for the
future management of the road.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-03-09
LOOKING ron FARM LAND.
Property 10 be Sold TO Immigrants Froi
the Low Countries of Europe.


Aulyl Van Dyk, John Bonnema and
John M,ensinger of New Jersey are
visiting Eastern Shore counties seeking
information about farm lands. Mr..
Van Dyk states that large number of
Hollanders who had settled in New
Jersey are anxious to go to Maryland,
and that he was sent here for the pur
pose of making a personal investigation
of the advantages offered.
1.-THE men represent are all in com
Portable circumstances, he said, land
if we think Maryland the proper place,
We Will come and buy farms. The most
of those who are DESTROYS of making a
change are truck farmers, and from
what we have heard of the State we
| think that the land is we'll adapted to
the growth of small fruits and truck. =
In this connection the following from
| the American Agriculturist of New
York, is interesting:
ga Baltimore syndicate is buying up
| the waste lands of tidewater Maryland
| to be sold on easy terms to immigrants
| from the low countries of Europe. In
fact, the State immigration bureau
| has already sent an agent to Holland
on this errand, encouraged by the sue.
| cess of the Hollanders in Caroline
county. who came down to Maryland
mostly from the far Northwest. Now,
we would like to know what's the
matter with encouraging immigration
from New England, New York, Penn.
sylvania, Ohio and Michigan, as vel
as the West, TO the lands referred to?
"That section possesses advantages
of soil, cheapness of land, ease o.
culture, convenience to markets BY
water and rail, mild climate, &c.
that have only to be made known t.
secure desirable class of people from
the Middle and Western States. Thu
time is coming when all these lands il
Delaware and Maryland will commanc
premium because of the advantage
! Just stated. Not as far south as Vir
ginia or North Carolina, the regioi
, noted ought to satisfy very desirabl
class of Northerners and Westerners
who for various reasons may wish
, miIder climate.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-03-09
STRUCK At JlATOWR CROSSING.
Ihomzs Bern.Iey. Coiored. DIED Of HIS In
jurses-Hi. Companion Ipjured.

Ihomzs Hernsley. Colored. DIED Of HIS In
jurses-Hi. Compsnton Injured.
Smyrna, March 3. Thomas Hemsiey
and Encch Spearman. both coloTed,
and residents Of this town, while driy
ing across the Jimtown crossing Of the
Delaware railroad, south of Clayton.
on their way home, last evening, were
struck By the northbound passenger
train. The horse vas thrown dis
lance Of 20 feet and instantly killed
and the wagon completely demolished.
The train was stopped as quickly as
possible and hacked back to the scene
Of the accident. Hemsley was found
10 be fatally injured and died a shoi t
time after reaching Clayton station.
| His fare was badly distgured. Spear
man is suffering with a broken arm
and Is seriously injured internally.
/ His condition is critical.
| This is the second fatal accident
/ which has occurred at this crossing
/ within the past six months, last fall
| William Jones. a prominent farmer re-
siding near Kenton, having lost his
life at this place. Only a few months
/ before VI. L. Nudge, an aged residen;
! OF Clayton, was struck by a train al
this crossing and severely injured.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-03-09
JOSEPH E WILLIAMS DEAD.
Prominent Resident Of smyrna Died IN MS
Chair Thursdsy Evening.

Smyrna. March 3. - Joseph +.
Williams, one of Smyrns's most
prominent and highly respected citi-
zens, died very suddenly az his resi-
dence here, aged g years. Mr.
Williams was taken sick about 10 days
ago, but his condition was not con
aidered serious, and his family were
very much encouraged by his improved
condition the past few days. He was
sitting in an easy chair last evening
when he suddenly expired. Mr.. WIFI
lisms years ago was engaged in the
mercantile business. but for the past
10 years has been in the life insurance
business, his territory being the Mary
land and Delaware Peninsula. The
deceased was member Of the Hepta-
sophs, with which organization be
carried an insurance Of 1900. and as
much more 10 an old lins company.
He was prominent member Of tbs
H. f. Church. SIR Williams leaves a
widow and three children, Frank J.
Williams, with K. g. Dun d Co.. Viii
mington: Miss Rena Williams anG
Charles Williams Of this town.