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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-10-04
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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-10-04

DROPOS aIIe-OFFICEO OF UARTERMAS.
L tor, Fort Mott. Sept. y, 1893 Sealed pro.
posal In duplicate for furnishing labor and
material required in contracting Of on" bar
rack ard additions and repairs of present
buildings here will le received here unit II
o'clock. ILL.,, Get. $3.50 and then opened. speci'
GcatiOns and information furnished nn nppll
cation. Proposals shond be ina orsed !" rope
sails for constructing barracks and addressed
to Quartcrm nster Fort Mott, N.
va .1lnh.a
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13
ELIXIR OF YOUTH.

One of the everlasting longings of the
human race was expressed when Goethe
penned his immortal Faust for the
wish of mankind from time immemoria
has been the rejuvenescence of the gol-
den days of youth, with it's unsatiated
enjoyment of the pleasures of the pass
ing moment In this age of cold, unfeel-
ing scientific analysis, that one-time staff
of life of the romantic novelist, the foun-'
tain of perpetual youth, has been laid
on the table and progress toward unend-
ing life is proceeding with microscopic
footballs. However,, one scientist CDR.
| Althaus) claims to rave discovered a
method whereby he is enabled to re-
juvenate the man who has seen too much
of life in proportion to his years-in other
words, the man who is prematurely aged.
DIR. Althaus's Treatment consists in APP
! plying skillful electrical treatment to the
brain, where he claims to have located
the centers of nervous activity which are
soonest worn out by a man who has gone
the pace too rapidly. DR.. Althaus is a
L%ondoner who has won considerable re-
nown as a practical scientist, and his re-
suits are being watched with interest
throughout the scientific world as de-
veloping new fields for the great natural
phenomenon whose real origin has never
been explained.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13
HOW WE RAISED A CHURCH MORTGAGE


church and we made up our minds to
use the old pulpit steps. OF course the
organ was as good as new and we used
the old pews buying enough more to MI
the church.
I'VE women got together and taine
the pews a dark mahogany and polished
them with pieces of lannel. We cut the
best part out Of the old carpet and made
strips for the aisles. We had enough left
over to cover the kneeling cushions.
Il may say also that We used the old
steeple, and tool the windows out of the
old church, which was an old fashioned
square building with a high pointed
steeple on the front. The new church is
up-to-date, all gables, and spires, and
steeples, with our big old steeple on the
! front. A city architect from Jackson de-
signed it for US and we got a carpenter
here to take the contract to build it.
1.-THE little dummy spires we brought
from Jackson, but the big steeple with
the bell in it came off the old church
though we painted it to look like a new
one. They say you can dip a church bel
in a thin coating Of silver plate and give
it a silvery sound. We are going to try
that some day.
But this is not telling you how VIZ
raised the mortgage on the church. W.
had our meeting the first day of Marcel
and the president of the board of trus'
, tees went over the books. That $1,5o'
: mortgage is bad says he, 'becase i
means SIS a year interest
THAT SIS a year is thrown away say
> 1. Everybody agreed hat it was, ant
, then l said, why not form a religious
, club? Most churches are religious club
anyway. The pastor is the president an,
t they all work together to keep the churcl
, goin.'
> "'What can we dor asked Sister Ma
! ney.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13

ship was steering through perilous seas,
when the electric bell sounded stop to
the engine room. From some unex-
planned cause the signal was taken for
full speed ahead'' and was SO inter-
preted and obeyed, with the result that
the huge vessel struck a rock and foun-
dered.
A faulty link in a huge hosting chain
caused one Of the direst disasters Of it's
kind that ever occurred in the north of
England. Thu chain was attached to a
colossal crane and snapped at a critical
moment, allowing some enormous iron
girders to fall upon a score of workmen
beneath, twelve of whom lost their lives
thereby.
A popular Polish tenor singer of oper-
attic celebrity some years since lost his
life by eating a milk scone in which a
careless o has unintentionally dropped
a brass nail. The nail caused cancer
from which death ensued.
A once renowned French actress lost
her reason through a trifling occurrence
She was visiting at an ancient chateau in
the vicinity of Mentone, when a friend
challenged her to pass the night alone in
an alleged haunted chamber. She &C.
cepted the challenge. During the night
she called for aid, and an aid found he,
in a state of pitiful fright through Ger.
tain uncanny sounds she had heard
Finally she developed a nervous disorder
which eliminated in insanity. The
ghOStly VlSltantS We're rats,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13

1--WE can do ~something,' said l. Why
not run the trolley for a week"
THE president of the trolley company
agreed to turn over the receipts for a
week to US if we would pay for the ex-
pense Of running the cars. He did not
like the idea at first, but as keeps the
grocery store, and as We all threatened
to boycott it if he didn't, he thought it the
best thing to do. So we boarded the troll
ley n morning, Sister Nancy, Sister
Smith, little Sister Brownlow and my
self, / at the motor.
The news hat we We're paying off the
church debt in this way spread like
lightning and by noon we had passengers
all we could carry. Some of them were
drummers and they paid their fare with
a silver quarter and would not take any
money back. Well, we ran that trolley
steadily for a week, as late as twelve
o'clock at night and getting up at six in
the morning. And when the six days
were up, for we would not work on sum
day, we had this to show for our work:
Cost of running trolley a week....$ zoe
Receipts for a week. LOO
Profits for a week. 1,OOC
There Is still a mortgage of $500, but
we are going to ave an outdoor milk
stand this summer and sell good milk fol
three cents a glass, and we expect t.
| make $500 that way.
very truly yours,
MARY BRANDON WILLIS"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13

| that the Tuturity is the racing event of
the year in the United States. Unlike
most of the big races in Europe this con-
test does not occur until fall b II this does
not detract from it's interest and the
crowd that flocks to Sheepshead to see
the big race resembles in many respects
an English crowd or Derby day.
Already arrangements for this great
event are being made, although it is not
to be run until the last week in August.
and the outlook for entries is sufficiently
bright to assure as interesting a contest
as that of last year when the Canadian
| Martimas, a SO to l shot, pulled away
from the bunch and came tearing down
the stretch with the rest of the crowd
nowhere in particular. There are other
races of Importance but the Futurity is
the race Of the year.
1t is almost impossible for an American
to understand the spirit of veneration
that is inspired by the Derby in the
heart of an Englishman, especially if he
be the owner of a racing stable. Long
ago it was said that the Prince of Wales
would rather win a Derby than ascend
the throne and it is told Of Lord Rose
berry that when he was asked to name
the three things which constituted the
climax Of his ambition, he exclaimed:
ITO win the Derby, to become Prime
Minister and to marry the richest woman
in the world"
Whether the story be true or not Lord
Rosebery has been quite successful in
realizing his ambitions. He succeeded
Gladstone as Prime Minister of the vast
British empire and he married the rich
est of all the Rothschild heiresses and yet
it is we'll known that fully as highly as
either of these successes does he prize
his winnings of the Derby.
Another English racing event of no lit
! tie Importance is the Royal Ascot which
is run on the first day of Ascot week,
which will open the year on Jun 10. This
race, which has always been regarded as
constituting the climax of the London
season, has an interesting history. 1t
was originally known as the Emperor's
| Cup, and for a number of years the tro-
ply was presented by Car Nicholas I.
This was in the early part of the reign of
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13
The Great Races of England and America

sOlutely bankrupt has a new costume,
her one idea being to obtain a creation
that will attract the most attention and
eclipse her rivals.
As in the United States, the great day
Of the sporting year in Australia comes
in the fall, for the Melbourne Cup Car
nival always occurs on the first Tuesday
of November. Pennington racecourse is
one of the finest, if not the finest, in ex-
i%stence. and while it was not many years
ago that the Melbourne Cup race had no
place in sporting annals it is now one of
the leading racing events Of the world,
fully 1000 people always attending the
great contest.
The race dates from November Z, 1861,
when the sweepstakes for starters was
20 SOW, 10 forfeit if declared, the added
money being 200 SOW. At the present time
the sweepstakes is 25 SOW, 2 only if de-
clared. with 5000 SOW. added money. Like
the English Derby, however, the race is
run principally for the honor attached to
a win, apart from the value of the
stakes. To own a cup winner is the
greatest ambition Of every Australian
roster, whose horses have carried off the
cups of 1897 and 1898 is envied far and
wide.
I Like the English Derby and the Grand
Prix. the Melbourne Cup is the social
event Of the year. Then ''all the world
and his WIFE flock to Melbourne, the at
tendance at the race being looked for
ward to as eagerly as the true Moham-
medan anticipates his pilgrimage to
Mecca. For days previous the city be-
gins filing II, trains from every county
are crowded and by the day of the race
the hotels and boarding houses are filled
to overlooking. The government house
is thrown open to guests who nave come
to witness the great race-the vi~ceregal
parties from other colonies-and balls,
dinners and garden fetes add to the gay
ETY. of the occasion In fact not even in
London or Paris is the great race of the
season attended by more honors and no.
where is the interest in the chief event
greater or the display of costumes more
lavish than in this far away colony of the
queens empire.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
Dear Sir:-In reply to your letter ask
ing US how We raised the heavy mortgage
on our church in n week take up my
pen to tell you ust how we did it. And
/ want to ask you and your readers if
you do not think we did pretty well.
when We built the now famous Meth
odist church we had $1,000 in money, and
we started on that. Then we got to-
gether to raise more. By we, I mean the
women, for the men We're doing about
all they could Sundays, in the contribu-
ton plate. They were very good about
it and every Sunday our minister counted
the silver dollars as well as the dimes
and nickels. But the money was only
enough to keep the church going.
Our annua expenses are, for pastor $500
Organist, per 81
Cost of keeping church in repair,
mending roof, replenishing cush-
ions, buying carpet, etc............. 81
1--WE formerly had an annual expense
OF $3.50 per year for sexton, and $40 fol
lighting, which included the lamps useG
Sunday evenings, prayer meeting night:
and at church sociables; but when VIZ
built our church we women buckled II
and did the cleaning ourselves; and Sur
day nights we all sent our lamps down t,
the church, and we did the same praye
meeting nights.
1.-The new church was to cost 50. 500 ant
we wanted 1880 to complete it after w
laid out our first $1,000. I would sa.
right here that we got our church yer,
cheap. One of the elders owns a saw
mill, and he cut up our boards for us GU
of timber which we had for the cuttinl
from the woods Of another elder. TIL
pulpit was the same one used in the oil
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13
THRILLING ACTS.

San Francisco Call: In a Lancashire
coal mine, a few years ago, a callous
youth viciously pricked a pony with his
penknife. The wounded animal kicked
! out furiously, overturning and breaking
several safety lamps. The naked flames
fed the foul gases in the air and created
an appalling explosion, which wrought
the death Of over 100 miners. -
"A spark from a truant fire balloon in
the neighborhood of New York one cele-
bration day drifted through the opeu
door OF a ~gunpowder factory and Gre
ated in a moment a miniature earth.
quake, Staying six men and woundine
several others.
An Italian countess, entering her cham
Der one evening with a stout stiletto pom
net PIN in her hand, stumbled over a pet
dog n fell PROSTATE on the floor, the
perilous pin piercing her heart and caus-
ing instant death. The heart broken
count, suspecting a jealous noble of the
supposed murder, shot him lead on the
street the next day. The following NIGH
the brother of the murdered man fatally
stabbed the count. After this trinle
ira gedy the true cause of the trouble was
revealed.
A young bachelor in London. %sanguine
OF participating in the wealth of a GER.
tain country uncle. invited his rich rela.
tive to spend a week with him in towr
During dinner one evening the nenhew-
quite unaware of the perilous characte,
of The combination--pa ssed Chartre,1s,
VINE and bananas to his uncle, who mar.
took freely of both, thus producing a ne.
culiarly potent poison, which caused hi.
death. The nephew's deep concern
turned to dismay when he learned late,
that the absence of any will shattered
his hopes of a fortune, and his chaerir
prompted him to prematurely end hi,
existence.
y German family. seven in number
lost Their lives by a somewhat unique ac.
cident. They slept in one large apart,
ment, lighted by gas. Before retiring tn,
father hung his o%vercoat above the ga.
burner. During the night the carmen,
slipped and fell on the tap. turning tn,
gas full on, and so suffocating the sl.m,
bering inmates.
A defect in an axle, so small as to es
cape the scrutiny or the vigilant plate.
layers, led to the most melancholy dis.
aster ever known in the United States
The fated train caught fire, then left thu
rails n descended a steep declivity. Ir
this appalling accident more than 2N
lives were lost.
A trifling but irreparable misunder.
standing between the captain and engi
neer of a stately steamship some year.
since led to the loss of the vessel, witt
400 passengers and = costly cargo. Th.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13

=, Queen Victoria, but the outbreak Of the
Crimean war somewhat dampened the
interest of the Gar in things English,
and from that time forth the gold cup,
the contest for which is the prlnclpa
event in the Ascot races, has been given
out of the racing fund. and has been
known as the Royal Ascot Cup"
While the Derby is for all, great or
small, rich or poor the Ascot has always
been considered as more or less of an
aristocratic function. Its proximity to
Windsor has contributed to endow the
event with royal lustre while its distance
from London prevents, to a certain ex-
tent, the presence of the rough element
of the metropolis which swarms at Ep-
som and has tended to debase Derby Day
into a genuine cockney's holiday. At the
Derby men and women are not over par
ticular about their dress, but at Ascot
the men are arrayed in frock coats and
high hats, while the women don for the
occasion their daintiest toilets.
France has two great races, the Derby.
which is to be run on May %, and the
Grand Prix, which occur on June II. OF
the two the latter is perhaps the most
interesting for. like the Ascot, it is the
climax of the Spring gayeties. The race
is always run on the second Sunday IN
June and up to that time the social pace
has been getting faster and faster. like
the finish of the big race itself, until, sud-
denly, the horses come down the stretch
and down goes the curtain just as it does
upon the last act of the p%antomine. when
the lights are blazing the brightest and
the orchestra banging its loudest.
The Grand PriX dates from the reign
of Napoleon Ill, who, in connection with
the railroad companies, instituted this
contest in 1862. in imitation of the Eng
lish Derby. Ever since that time it has
been the official race of the year. The
president occupies the central pavilion.
surrounded by members of his cabinet
and the diplomatic corps, and on the tri-
Dunes and lawn can be seen what is so
appropriately called the "Tout Paris"
all the celebrities of the great and the
half world which occupies so large a part
in the life and attractions of the capital
For this great day every woman not alb
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13

along very roughly, and the bill was hav-
ing a hard time, when he suddenly re-
membered that it was Friday, and the
18th of the month. He looked across the
house and saw a cross-eyed man making
a speech aginst the measure, and turning
to the chair he discovered to his horror
that a left-handed mi was chair
man of the committee. II do not remem-
Der ever having spent a more uncomfort-
able 10 minutes than I did at that time,
for l was not certain what the combina-
ton of superstitious omens would Gull
inmate in, whether the fall of the cap
itol dome or the passage of the bill. The
committee finally agreed to the measure,
and I can tell you 1 lost no time in taking
the gavel away from the left-handed
man, rapping the house to order, after
the committee had reported, and passing
the bill"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13
ONCE A NEWSBOY.

The youngest college president in the
United States is Mr.. Jerome H. Raymond,
who no further back than 20 years ago
was a 1~2-year-old newsboy in Chicago.
The way to success lay through stenog-
raphy. Becoming an expert he was ap-
pointed private secretary to Pullman,
the palace car" magnate, and after
ward to Miss Willard, whose great corre-
spondence he attended to for four years.
At the same time he studied diligently.
H went to college, was graduated and
accepted the chair Of sociology in a small
western hall of learning. While attend
ing classes he was never beaten at study
but once, and that vas by a young lady.
He straightway married her. h now
assists him in presiding over the destinies
of the University of West Virginia.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13
VETERAN OF SAN JUAN.

A Norwich Comm drug gist has a large
Newfoundland dog that has seen more
service than General Miles. He was a
rolypoly, r%ollicking pun when eight years
ago he left the shore Of balny Spain to
follow his master to the wars. He has
been born and raised a Spaniard. and a
Spaniard, as his wondering little eyes
watched the LAM of his birth recede for
ever, he doubtless determined to die. But
puppies. like nations, may change their
minds Then they reach maturity. It was
not that he loved Spain the less. but that
he loved the Yankees more. So after sew
en- of the hardest campaigns a suffering
soldiery ever fought. he reposes in the
sweet cool breeze of a New England
shore, n dOZes and dreams, but thinks
of war nc more.
Leon was brought from Barcelona,
where during the first nine days of his
mortality he CROPPED around after the
manner of ups in darkness, 10 Cuba by
General Linares, commander of the
Spanish forces in the Province of Santa.
go. He became a great pet with the COM
mon soldiers, and during the troublous
days of the Cuban rebellion followed his
master, who was above the ordinary run
of Spanish officers, from battlefield to bat
tlef1eld. At last came San Juan, where
the friends of his youth We're routed, He
whfned and wagged his great tail pite-
ously as his master was borne off ON a
litter. He watched by his side with ieal-
Gus eyes during his two months sickness
IN the Santiago hospital, and when--the
terrible Americans at last in full control
it came to be time for Iinares to sail
for Spain, he cried as though his grown
up puppy heart would break. But the re-
turning ships had little room for dogs, so
he stayed behind as the dog of a Kindly
Yank. and tried to look as cheerful as he
might.
Linares gave Leon to Arturo Gomez, a
nephew of the famous Cuban. Gomez. be-
ing anxious to please Captain Fagdo, Of
the Second Volunteers, gave the New
~foundlard to him. from whom, through a
brother, he passed into the lands of his
present master. Time, in his case, at
least, seems to have healed all wounds,
and he rides the Yankee tots on his broad
old back as complacently as he did the
tumbling little naked Cuban
trados. Tho queerest thing about it is that
although he had never seen snow, and was
fresh from a climate in which 104 in the
shade was considered cool, he took to the
rough New England winter like a native
who had long languished in exile. Snow,
of which he had never seen a particle,
was his especial delight. M the words
Of his master:
You should have seen him when the
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13

OF all the racing events on the face OF
the globe there is none that can compare
with the Derby, which is to be run on
the Downs of Epson on May 81. In
France, in Austria, in Hungary, Ger
many, Spain and Italy, and even in this
country, the name of Derby has been APP
piled to important race meetings of the
year, but there is not one of them that
can compare either in spectacular effect
OF in sportive interest to the grand old
English Derby that was run for the first
time officially in 1850, and which has
taken place regularly ever since.
In the United States 1t is the Futurity
that is the contest of the season and the
Kentucky Derby is the only race that
bears that name that can be regarded as
of national interest. Elsewhere the Derby
is the great race of the year, the event on
which fortunes are won and lost. the fea-
ture of the racing season from which
nothing can detract.
The Kentucky Derby. however, is in
creasing in Importance every year. Twen-
ty-five years ago the first race was run
on Churchill Downs. at Louisville. and 1t
was long before his contest became
known as the classic sporting event of
the south and west, for it is here that the
most famous horses of the present and of
the past nave been brought together.
It was here that the memorable Mol
" Mccarthy went down in the four
milo race before the unbeaten Ten
Brock. 1t was here that Proctor Knott,
for a time the greatest race horse ever
sired, lowered his colors to the masterful
Spokane in a driving finish. the like of
which has never been known on either
the eastern or western turf.
In fact the history Of the Kentucky
Derby has been a record of brilliant con-
tests from the first race in 1875, when
Aristides won, covering the mile and a
half in 2:37A up to last season when
Plaudit carried off the honors of the year.
1t is difficult to compare such a race as
the Kentucky Derby with similar events
in other parts of the country, but there
can be no question as to the assertion
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13

first snow fell. He did not know what to
make of it. He %squatted on the ground
on his launches, drew the snow up to him
between his big paws and rubbed it as if
he would thoroughly sample it and find
out what this strange substance was.
Snow was a deep mystery to the dog that
had passed all his life in the tropics. And
the serious, puzzled expression in his in
telligent eyes while he investigated was
something more droll han l can des-
cribe.n