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Evening journal., 1899-11-07
BARGE DOMINION LAIINCHED

At 2.30 o'clock this afternoon, at the
shipyard of the Jackson and Sharp
Company, the grain barge Dominion,
for the Philadelphia Harbor Transfer
Company, slid gracefully from the
ways. The launch was an informal af-
fair there being present only the Off
cials of the company. She is 165 feet
long, 2S fet wide and 13 feet depth OF
hold, and will ply in Philadelphia har-
Dor
Evening journal., 1899-11-07
wHAr DO You wANre

Advertise your wants In the Evening
Journal. Employment wanted. hc,n
wanted 90 lot for rent for sale. board
Ing. and lost and found ads. will be- pub
lished. three lines. one time. for a dime:
three times for a quarter.
Evening journal., 1899-11-07
BOARD AND ROOMS.

WANTED.-By a professional man,
front room, on second floor, large warm,
light: with board, mot more than 10 min
utes walk from Fourth and Market
streets. State location and price. Ad-
dress B. IL. care ENenlng Journ1L
Evening journal., 1899-11-07
BISHOP ANDREWS TO PRESIDE

Al NENl SEoSlON OF WlLMlNG'
TON CONFERENCE HERE NEXT
MARCH.
In Philadelphia yesterday the Board
of Methodist Bishops adopted the plan
OF Episcopal yisitations for the first
half OF 1900 Indianapolis was chosen
as the seat OF the next bishops confer.
ence, which will begin on the last Wed.
nesday OF April, 1900.
According 20 the plan OF visitation
Bishop ANDREWS will preside at tn,
next session OF the Wilmington Con.
ference. to be held in this city, begin.
ming on March 2l, 1900. Bishop An
drews is well-known to a number oil
Delaware preachers. He is chairman ol
the General Commission of the Twen.
tleth Century Thank Offering, OF which
Rev. John ID. c. Hanna, OF this city Is
secretary.
Evening journal., 1899-11-07
WHAr 10 You wANr2

Advertise your wants I'm the Evening
Journal Employment wanted. help
wnnfol to let. for rent, for sale. board
lng. and lost and found ads. will he pub
llshed, three lines, one time, for a dime:
three times for a quartcr.
Evening journal., 1899-11-07
rARMnR WALKED To RETIRE.

Frank d. Walker has rented his farm
at southwood to Andrew Will
liams. of Penn Manor and viii
himself remove to. Marshallton. MI
Walker will retire from farming.
Evening journal., 1899-11-07
Will HOLD a PosT-MoRTEM.

DR.. James A. Draper DR.. Harvey J.
Spruance and Or. d. l. McColley went
to Deakyneville this morning to hold a
post-mortem on the body of Mrs. Perry.
Evening journal., 1899-11-07
DAMAGES FOR sPENcER's DEATH.

William S. Hilles has brought suit
for damages in the Superior Court
against the p. w. & b. railroad at the
instance OF the widow OF Samuel
Spencer. colored. Spencer was killed
recently at the p. W. g. B. station.
where he had been employed as a por-
ter for several years.
Evening journal., 1899-11-07
DR WOLFE no SPEAK.

Rev. George L. Wolfe, ID. d., of the
First NJ. p Church, will make an ad-
dress at the Y. NJ. c. A. gospel meeting
on'Sunday next A special quartet will
furnish music
Evening journal., 1899-11-07
WHAT DO you WANT7

Advertise vOur wants in the Evening
Journal. Employment WlntCd hein
wanted. 90 lef. for renl. for sale bon rd-
ing. and lost and found ads. VIII lac pub
llshed. three lines one time. for a dime:
three times for quarter.
Evening journal., 1899-11-07
pRETTYMANs CONDITION BETTER

William Prettyman. the injured foot
ball player is much improved to-day
His father and brother. thep hysicians
in attendance. now have more hopes OF
his recovery than at any previous time.
Evening journal., 1899-11-07
posF pIrys LINDEN HAUL

Linden Hall. near Newark. has been
sold by the Equitable Guarantee and
Trust Company to Representative
David Rose for $4,000.
Evening journal., 1899-11-07
SITUATIONS WANTED.

FXPERIENCED y0Slng man wants po-
sition as clerk or salesma9 in Office or
store. Good reference. Address H., this
office
Evening journal., 1899-11-07
..MI1RDEN CATCHES THEM.

Sea trout every day. &c. h.. at 1i9
King street. c. NJ. MURDEN.
Evening journal., 1899-11-07
coAL. woop AND aRAIN.

II. T. Sergeant, Coal and Wood office
Seventh and King, Delmarvia phone
$40. Hickory wood for open CRATES.
Evening journal., 1899-11-07
CITY RAILWAY
Gets FRANCHISE
Granted Right of Way on Sixth
Street By Street and Sewer
Directors.
DECISION WAS UNANIMOUS

BOARD DID NOT FEEL JUSTIFIED
IN GOING BEHIND THE ACTION OF
LEGISLATURE-M MEETING THIS
MORNING A SPIRITED oNE-vE-
HICLE LIGHT ORDINANCE HELD
UP.
Evening journal., 1899-11-07
DO DOCTORS
USE ALCOHOL f?
Wilmington Physicians Talk
About DR.. Hills Famous Paper
on Alcohol and Physicians.
OPINIONS NOT UNANIMOUS

THE EVENING JOURNAL ASKED
FOR THE OPINIONS AND VIEWS
OF LEADING LOCAL PRACTI-
TONERS AS TO THE CORRECT
NESS OF DIR. HILLS STATE
MENTs AND THE sOUNDNESS OF
HIS CONCLUSIONS, AND SUBMITS
THE RESPONSES OF OUR FAMILY
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1899-12-14
WHITTIER ARE WE DRIFTING?

From the Buffalo Express: For the
first two months of the new fiscal year
our government has expended $1O2,-
9G9,09033, of which $21, OS6, 4G9.S1 has
gone for the support of the civil and
miscellaneous establishment, and all
the rest for military expenses of one
kind or another. The army got S34.-
202,OSO0G; the navy, and interest on
the war debt, S9,153, S45.3S, total of
the military side of the ledger Of $79,-
153,S45.64, at the rate of $474 595 ,073.S4
year for warlike outgoes, while the
total cost of the civil establishment
was at the annual rate of $126,39S,-
$685.
At the present time not quite eighty
Per cent Of the expenses of carrying on
this peaceful country are on account of
wars, past, present and anticipated,
but the ratio is nearer to eighty per
cent than to any other round figure.
Is there any country, free or despotic,
which spends a larger proportion of
its income on war? / do not know be-
SSitoS nav lloI IuS lO
look up the statistics, but should be
surprised, indeed, to find that any
country of high civilization, spends
four times as much on war and war
like preparations as on all it's civil ex-
penses put together. 1t is difficult to
comprehend that, with hardly real
ization of it by the people, we are be-
coming the most warlike of nations,
so far at least, as outlay on military
matters goes.
Moreover, the taxes are taking on
new form. They are coming home to
mems business and bosoms more close
ly than heretofore. The indirect taxes
of the tariff which have from the be-
ginning of the republic been the main
stay of the federal government, are so
no longer. For the first two months
of the fiscal year the receipts from the
tariff were $37 ,51s, 151.53, while the re-
ceipts from the indirect taxes of the
internal revenue were s52,449.61396
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1899-12-14
ChagrIn.
beggar!" he calculated.
Ito be continued.)

Men who expect to fail, instead of
expecting to succeed, are very seldom
the victims of chagrin. 1t is the men
OF great capacities who are the worst
victims to chagrin, which Is, indeed,
one OF the most serious set-offs against
the advantage of early distinction. 1t
Is, perhaps, greater misfortune to
have learned to expect that obstacle
after obstacle will go down before you
than to have learned to expect that
you will break your shins over them,
and have reason to rejoice when you do
not break them fatally or too often.
The root of almost all chagrin is vex-
alton with yourself-often a vexation
quite as ill-founded as is the vexation
of man who has never been out in
whirlwind, when he finds that he
cannot make way against lit, though
he had always previously made way
against the wind. There is nothing
of which the strong have less expert
ence than of the forces which may be
brought against them in this world;
and nothing is more natural nor more
unreasonable than to resent your own
weakness when you ought only to be
acknowledging the magnitude of your
difficulties. The true remedy for cha
grin is to realize how full the universe
is of forces against which you have
never yet measured yourself, and of
the complexity of the causes by which
they are constituted. 1t is quite as
unjust to yourself to be able to sur
mount cataract, as it is perfectly
just to anticipate making way against
an ordinary current or strong tide
Great success under difficulties of one
kind prepares a man to overestimate
unduly his power against difficulties Of
very different kind, and to waste
himself in chagrin IL he does not find
them turn to wax in his hands.-Lon-
don Spectator.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1899-12-14
Corporate Anarchism.

From the New York News: I'VE see
today the amazing and revolving spec
tacle of industrial corporations defying
law, violating order and practicing
anarchism. In playing ducks and
drake with law and order corporations
are playing the game and into the
hands of their worst enemy. When
Chenter wrote. with mordant pen, Of
the men to whom every law is burden
some, every restraint insupportable
and all government odious; men for
whom honesty means the most trying
of all yokes,' he had in mind not so
much the sansculotte mob of the slums
as the men of light and learning,
suchas Danton, Desmoulins and Robes
pierre, upon whom the just judgment
of time has set the seal of expiration.
In like manner the worst enemy of
social order today is not the berry
brawler, but the law breaking or law
evading corporation. in it's insolence of
wealth and influence. Corporate an
archism-that is the enemy"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1899-12-14

would never have troubled to think
anything more about it if Mr.. Falkland
had not declared that this man must
have known something of her name
and had taken the earliest opportunity
OF trying to make her acquaintance.
But now. since he had told her what
really villainous characters were con-
stantly to be found at such quiet sea-
side hotels as the Royal George" she
began to realize that. If this Mr..
Brown were one Of the number. he
would be capable Of anything, and.
seeing her coming, had probably hid
den her letter in order to obtain the
necessary excuse for addressing her.
well, at any rate, he shall not
speak to me again!" mentally resolved
Miss Luttrell, as she stirred her coffee
and buttered piece Of toast. "Mr.
Brown Of London is mistaken If he
imagines that Aunt Lydia and 1 are
two helpless individuals whom he can
take in and impose upon as he likes.
He had better try-that is ALT"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1899-12-14
AGUlNALDo's PROPOSITION.

New York, Nov pa letter to the
World from it's Hongkong correspond
ent, under date of Oct. 19, gives a re-
markable interview with Aguinaldo.
The Interview, according to the CORE
spondent, comes from an American
who has lived for years in the Philip
pines and has known Aguinaldo for a
long time. He has been through the
lines and has been two weeks with the
insurgent commander-n-chief
This American is business man
with several correspondents on the
New York Produce Exchange and
agent of one of the firms running a
line OF steamers to Manila. For years
he was Philippine agent of Russell
G. Co., of Hongkong, San Francisco
New York and Boston
According to the interview Agui-
naldo wants peace, and to get it he is
willing to repay the $20,OOO,OO0 which
the United States paid to Spain for the
Philippines, and will consent to Amer
lean soldiers remaining in Manila till
the debt is Cancelled. He wants re-
public to consist of a president, con-
gress and judiciary, the president to be
elected by the votes of the people, the
congress to be chosen in the same
manner from all the Philippine ISL
ands; a judiciary to be appointed by
the president or by the senate; local
governments in ali districts and cities
to be elected by the legal voters there
of; the American soldiery to be with
drawn with some exceptions) from
the country; to satisfy the American
people a subsidy on the receipts from
the customs and exports to pay the
American government S20,0O0,OO0, the
amount paid Spain; also the taxes of
real estate and personal estates to be
dedicated to the same, and all to be
repaid in five years; American SOL
diers the number to be agreed upon)
to remain at Manila until this debt is
paid, then to be withdrawn from the
island.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1899-12-14
NATIONAL GRANGE AND THE
TRUSTS.

Springfield, ~nio, Letter: The Ma
tional Grange, which has been in ses-
sion in this city during the past week,
will adjourn sine die tomorrow after
noon. Important in today.s proceed
lngs were the reports of tie commit
tees on trusts and the merchant ma
rine, both of which We're adopted. The
trust committees report says:
We are not opposed to associations
OF interests. which merely lessen the
cost Of production, but we are decided
ly opposed to the misuse of the power
which large combinations OF capital
give for the purpose of destroying
competition, controlling production
and arbitrarily debating prices of
commodities.
We are opposed to all corporations
or trusts which control the source of
supply and, like the Standard Gil Com
pany, reach out their arms and en-
brace all competition. Special favors
are granted them by railroads. thus
enabling them to undersell and force
to the wall the smaller dealers, who
might otherwise compete with them
THE greed and selfishnese which too
often actuate men has become an ele-
ment of danger and must b. con-
trolled. 1t must be made imp ossib!e
for so-called trusts to accumulate mil
lions by selling watered stock with
out adding to the wealth of the coun-
try"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1899-12-14
it from an unexpected adversary who
dogs not mention the bugbear of sill
yer, but makes it feel the same cold

it from an unexpected adversary who
dogs not mention the bugbear of sill
yer, but makes it feel the same cold
chills.
Count Won Posadowsky-Wehn the
German minister of the interior be-
came an open hereto in the presence
Of Andrew d. White U. S. Ambassador
at Berlin, and of other dignitaries of
the German empire, all of whom
agreed with him, at least, nobody dis
puted him.
If this unterbilanz (meaning "bal-
ance of trade") against Germany con-
tinues, says he, eve shall have to drop
the gold standard" Here is a nice adj
mission. The gold standard then, is
not the creator of balance of trade
in favor of the nation adopting it. 1t
certainly is not, in fact it is and al
ways has been the direct opposite. The
TACT that the balance of trade has been
SO enormously in favor of the United
States during the past two years, is
wholly due to our enormous produc-
tons and not to the gold standard.
That 1T is not dle to the gold standard
is evident from the remarks of the
German count whose grievance arises
out OF the fact that the gold standard
gives balance of trade against Ger
many, and if il leeps on he will drop
1T. The counts declaration was di-
rected at the Unitad States, and he de-
sired some advantageous commercial
treaty which would equalize this bal
ance OF trade, that is, give Germany
an advantage by reducing the balance
in our favor.
European financiers, as we'll as some
OF our own, regard the enormous sum
of about six hundred millions of dol
lars, the annual balance of trade in
our favor, very good thing for the
country, too much, N fact, for if it
be continued several years longer, it
VIII absorb all the money in the
world. But when we investigate, it is
discovered that cur balance of trade
is as fictitious as the quantity of our
circulating medium. In 1859, the
balance of trade in our favor was in
excess of six hund ed and sixteen mil
lions of dollars in gold. AS a matter
OF fact, deducting !rom the amount of
gold actually re. cived, the total
amount of our exports, there was only
about eighty millions balance, and that
was not all coined a.. thr mint reports
| show. 1t goes, some say, towards pay
ing interest on OR indebtedness
abroad, expenses of americans in Eu-
rope. steamship passages, etc., etc. 1t
certainly never gets INTO circulation,
for our money stock instead of in
creasing, is being onstantly con-
tracted, and our debts are increasing
| faster than our output If cold and bal
| ance of trade combined The impe-
rial minister Of the German interior
is undoubtedly correct n his evident
belief that the dropping of the gold
standard would restore tho balance of
trade in favor of Germ any, result
that would be experienced in every
producing nation in the World.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1899-12-14
PRESIDENTIAL ROYALTY.

From the Journal of Agriculture: A
peculiar circumstance has occurred in
connection with the investigation of
the Standard Oil Company, by the in
dustrial commission The commission
has refused to receive and record the
testimony of Mr.. George Rice of Ma
rietta, Ohio, because sone portions Of
it reflect severely upon President Nc
kinley, former Presidents Cleveland
and Harrison, Attorney General
Griggs and former Attorneys General
Olney and Miller, and upon the in,er
state commerce commission" And so
it seems that we are beginning to
hedge our presidents around with that
mysterious odor of royal sanctity tlat
forbids the near approach of the vuls ar
masses. In our crude Democratic way
of looking at things we had supposed
that the people were the sovereigrs
and the president their hired man, wi O
might be called on to give an account
ing whenever it suited their pleasure
1t was Mr.. Rice who instituted the suit
e~ossAAASS SAAS oSohNo1o VII 4
which resulted in the retirement OF
that corporation from Ohio. He has
been an independent oil producer anc
refner, and through the extraordinary
business methods" employed by the
Oil octopus he has been forced out of
business a number of times. He is
thoroughly familiar with the peculiar
methods of the Standard Oil Company
and his testimony, it is said, contained
statements which the commission dill
not care to have recorded in the pub.
lished testimony.
We DO not know whether Mr.. RIGS
is Democrat or a Republican, or
whether, like Mark Hanna, he believes.
there are good trusts and bad trusts;
but III any event he should be permit
tee. to tell what he knows. 1t makes
no difference what the commission
thinks about it, they too, are servants
of tho people, and they have no right
to attempt to shield their fellow serv-
ants from adverse criticism. The peo-
r,1o 1,rom that doo1 80
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1899-12-14
CHICAGO PLATFORM.
NEVER CAN BE SEPARATED
FROM DEMOCRACY.
1t Came from the People az n Protest
Against Clevelandism, Carlisleism,
Whitneyism and Wall streetism-MIlh

In 1886 large number OF people
had become restless under, and dissat-
isfied with, the management of these
commercial politicians who had con-
trolled party organizations, and con-
Guided to take matters into their own
hands. The Chicago convention, rep
resenting great party, took that par
ty out of the gambling arena of the
stock markets, and put it once more
on the high plane of public welfare.
With their eyes on the future, with the
voices of their ancestors and the pa
triots of '76 in their ears, and with the
weight of the heritage they should
hearts. they presented as issues funda-
mental truths. AS champion they Sc
lected a statesman from the west, with
clear brain and honest heart and de-
voted to the interests of the people.
Since that time these professional is
their productions. Lately they have
been trying to persuade the allied
forces of reform that new set of prin-
ciples is needed. We have re-eXamined
the construction of the Chicago pro-
auction and the material of which it is
made. 1t does not show evidence of
wear or indication of decay. 1t has in
1t life, power and purpose. Its cham
plon has been tried and has been
found to be true in purpose and intent.
we are not much impressed by any
reason advanced for laying aside the
platform of the standard-bearer. These
commercial agents have abandoned
the idea of new construction and set
up repair shop. They have been to
see Mr.. Bryan to persuade him to give
his consent to their employment to
make few trifing changes. In their
ignorance of the principles upon which
the structure was builded, in utter mis-
conception of the character and ability
OF its architect, ~ advise the changes
That would destr.y the structure. 1t
is time to remember that intellectual
fcrce, that motives that moral respon-
sibilities, are individual. There is no
| intellectual power in a corporation.
The motives of evary such organiza-
ton are the motives of individuals
The moral responsibility must be paid
upon the individuals. Make what legal
restrictions and lin. tations you can,
what good are the restrictions and linn
1tations if the iN,duals that fur
nlsh the intellect and the motives are
able to escape observa! len, retain what
they extort from thei. victims by the
aid of these monsters, and preserve
their standing among their fellow
men?-A. ]. Van Vorh.5.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1899-12-14
handkerchief in the dining room last


handkerchief in the dining room last
EVENING""
1t was triiing question, certainly,
still it sent the color flaming into the
girls cheeks.
"A handkerchief" she repeated
No; am sure l did not'-with a de-
cided shake of her head.
Are you quite sure, though, because
feel certain it is yours-at least it
has your initials on it?" he returned,
producing the article in question and
holding up the corner where the crest
OF the Luttrells was embroidered over
the initials sc. C. L." This is it. Is
it not yours?"
Evelyn looked at it astonished. It
was impossible to deny the ownership
"Oh. yes--it-it is nine"
The admission was made with such
reluctance that Major Brown was con-
scious of feeling that In delivering
up the handkerchief to its rightful
owner he was rather under an ob,iga-
ton to her for deigning to accept it
than that she owed anything to him.
He was therefore quite astonished at
the polite but distant thank you"
which rewarded his efforts, and stood
for some minutes lost in contempla-
ton of the slight graceful figure as it
retreated down long corridor.
1T Is no go, am afraid, this time. %
he muttered half aloud. "Sambo's
mistress has scented mischief already. y
Yes. undoubtedly his scheme had
failed. She had not been so blind as to
believe that in both cases his effort to
speak to her was merely chance; and
the major realized with sens Of the
keenest disappointment that. mat
tiers stood, it was practically. useless
hoping to make the slightest progress
toward more intimate acquaintance.
There was nothing for it therefore
but to let things take their own
course for a day or two, in the mean
while preserving such strict silence.
when CHANGING to encounter Miss Lut-
trell, as to disarm her of all suspic-
ions, and then to trust to fate to
throw her in some way across his
path. At any rate, he was prepared
to remain an occupant Of No. 40, on
the second floor of the Royal George"
even If he had to remain until dooms-
day for that suspicious moment to ar
rive.
Until doomsday! Yet, when only
one hot sultry afternoon, one cool
dewey evening. and one sunshiny
morning had passed, Major Brown was
thoroughly Impatient.
It was the afternoon Of the second
day after his decision. and he was
standing. at the open window OF the
smoking room with a most detected
|l1rossicn upon his face. II seemed