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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-05-18

Charles A. Brickle. machinist at the
shops of the Harlan a. Hollinesworth
Co. for number Of years, has left the
employ of the firm and accepted posi-
tion as assistant foreman at the shops
Of the Sparrow Point Shipbuilding Co.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-05-18

Thomas Purnell, who has been en-
ployed as foreman for L. @. Mum,
boatbuilder at the foot of Fourth
street, has resigned and engaged in
business on Front street between
Shipley and Orange.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-05-18

William Bush has returned from a
year Of study in the Columbia Law
School. He will continue reading law
in the office of Arthur W. Spruance.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-05-18

The degree team of Wilmington
Lodge, A. o. U. W., has accepted an
invitation to go to Middletown on
Tuesday evening to initiate 40 candi-
dates into Union Lodge. ~
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-05-18
CAPTURE OF SAN CHI On.

Associated Press Dispatch by Special Wires.
Hongkong, China, May II. San
Chun was occupied yesterday, without
any casualties.
There is an uncon6rmed report that
the rebels are occupying Sunon City.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-05-18

A pole on one of the circus wagons
struck James Keenan's wagon at Front
and French streets yesterday, caus-
ing the horse to run away. The damage
was slight.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-05-18

Associated Press Dispatch byspeciai wires
Boston, Mass, May 1.-THE Rev.
DIR. Edward Everett Hale has resigned
tho pastorate of the South Congrega-
tional Church, after service of As
years.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-05-18

Harry Fisher, aged 8 years, Of No.
633 Christiana street, was struck by a
wagon at Front and Madison streets
yesterday. His ankle was injured.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-05-18

The effects of Harry Brockson, which
were levied on yesterday week by Con-
stable Fleming, were released yesterday
morning.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-05-18

Iron Work at Sixteenth ana Market.
:, The iron work at the Sixteenth and
market streets excavation is being put
~ position over the race, and the wall
~ the remainder of the distance will
shortly be built.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-05-18
T. NJ. weir. p,f,b.apa King s,r,,,.,

is the place. Full Cream Cheese, II cents a
pound; this is new cheese, mild, fne flavor aud
Just the Kind Of cheese roy like. New orleans
brown sugar, 81 cents q pound; this is old time
tastes like brown sugar ought TO. Hand-nads
pretzels, cents pound: these are medium
size, very crisp and youil always get them fresh
from us. Eagle Brand California Peaches, IL
cents a pound; these are very bright very
clean, not dark peach in the box and they
peaches you could not help buying a pound.
Pure apple Jelly with lemon flavor, 10 cents q
tumblcr; the tumbler has q smooth edge 30 YOU
can use it on the table after the Jelly Is gone;
the Jelly is very fine. Pocket size good jamaica
ginger, cents a flask. You come and see our
etore. We give trading stamps: ask tor them at
u. M. WEEKS, Fifth and King streets.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-05-18
Marriaass.

PEYToN--sMITH-Atth the Wesley VI. E. parson.
age on May Ilith, 1899, by the Rev. W. 4. Dsw-
son. George w. Peyton and Kate G. Smith
both of this city.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-05-24

to US by our brave men, who left their
homes and loved ones, and faced shot
and shell, bayonet and saber, Tor their
country.
American grandeur consists not in
perishing sculptures and massive ma
sonry, the achievements of captive
slaves. Her monuments have not been
erected in commemoration of warlike
valor or martial conquests, but in honor
of those who counted not their lives
precious when their country and its in
situations were in peril, but freely shed
their blood and laid down their lives
that they might live as the priceless in
heritance of those who came after
them. How eloquently they speak to
us to-day as we Irvine our floral gifts
about them, and over the lowly grass
strew the fragrant flowers of spring!
Memorial day is what it's name inn
plies--a day of commemoration. In
the graves on whose mounds shall be
planted flags and scattered flowers
sleep the remains of men whose deeds
of courage and daring are worthy of
being perpetuated. All honor to the
heroic dead!-Christian Work.
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COMMUNICATION DAY.
A Day to Pay Tribute to Those Who
Yielded Up Their Lives for
Their Flag and Country.

Memorial day, with all it's beautiful
significance, has come to have an abid-
ing place among our holidays. 1t is
well for us to honor and to render our
tribute of gratitude and thanksgiving
to those who gave their lives for the
maintenance of the grandest system of
national institutions that any people
ever enjoyed. Our nation stands fore
most among the few great political
powers whose warriors have always ex-
hibited the noblest patriotism.
Our independence rests on the mar
tyred bodies of our forefathers. And
the costly price of our national unity
and liberty lies buried beneath the sod,
where many a widow and orphan has
wept, and where with each returning
year, in this month of May, we render
our floral tribute to their memory and
to American patriotism. Our national
institutions, though conceived in the
minds of our noble fathers, were
brought forth, nurtured and handed
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a tall, slender figure clad in black en-
tered, followed by an old negro fairly
staggering under the weight of mag
nolia blossoms. Something familiar in
the two figures made Fremont pause.
But they did not notice him. The lady
turned up side path and walked quick
ly toward the end of the grounds Mer-
rill had just quilted, followed more
slowly by the old serving man.
Merrill faced about and watched
them. He was certain now that the
woman was Erma. He expected her to
enter the Ralston lot, but she only
paused, waved her hand toward the
fiower-hidden graves, said something
to her attendant, and passed on her way
until she stood beside the undecorated
grave.
Fremont rubbed his eyes and stared.
The lady motioned to the negro to
lay his fragrant burden down.
Merrill fastened up the path. He
was near enough to hear the weli-re-
membered voice say: "You may go,
Uncle Sorney; I'll arrange the flowers
myself
The servant shuffled away down the
path he had come, while his mistress
knelt to place the blossoms.
Merrill Fremont paused, hat in hand.
Erma believed him dead and forgave
him. How would it be when she found
him alive? He stood in dumb uncer-
tainty. She was his only love, and to
lose her again would be more terrible
than not to have found her. Dead, she
surely loved him; her action proved it.
Would he not better go away in the
certainty of that love than, by staying,
perhaps revive the old bitterness which
his return to her unframed, while all
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''Why, that's my namc!" and the old
man looked about him in dazed man
ner, as though for moment he doubt
ed his identity.
Eyes, my name is Merrill Fremont,
and was born in '3s, but though 1 was
wounded l did not die at Gettysburg. A
union soldier in confederate grave
yard. All, that accounted for the lack
of memorial flowers" and he smiled
grimly. But I'm not dead" and he
thumped his cane vigorously upon the
gravel path.
He leaned his hands on his stick and
stood gazing intently at his own name.
cit isn't me-but it is some union
soldier buried for me, and he shall have
some flowers. Yes, I'll decorate my own
grave and with a chuckle Merrill Ere
mont started briskly down the path.
AS he neared the gate it opened, and
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her beloved family lay dead, might re-

her beloved family lay dead, might re-
call?
He was about to retreat. 1t was too
late, the lady turned and saw him. He
stood awkwardly before her. She
looked at him in puzzled inquiry.
Suddenly he cried out: ''Erma.'
She moved back pace in surprise at
stranger.
Once his tongue loosened Merrill
gave her no chance of escape. In quick,
incoherent words he poured forth the
mistaken report of his death, his love,
his sorrow for her grief and at last an
earnest plea that she would prove more
kind than in the past.
AS she listened delicate flush crept
into the lady's pale, sweet face. The
shadow that rested in the deep, blue
eyes lifted. She looked searchingly at
the man before her. Could this really
be her young lover, returned in the
guise of this impetuous elderly man?
She had never thought of him save as
the soldier boy who had gone away at
her bidding. At last she seemed to I'M
derstand. For moment the corners of
the lovely mouth forgot to droop.
By the light of memory the man and
woman grew young again.
When his torrent of words ceased she
stood silent for some moments, and
then held out her hand as she softly
said:
"'We Danish our anger forever
When we laurel the graves of our dead :"
-Gilberte Holt, in Detroit Free Press.
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First Decoration of Soldiers Graves

The first systematic decoration of
soldiers graves is said to have been
in 1862, when the wife and daughter
of Chaplain May, of the Second Michi-
gan, visited the cemetery at Arlington
and placed flowers upon the graves of
soldiers buried there. 1t was the wom-
en- of Charleston, S. c., who were the
first to decorate the graves of both
friends and enemies, a graceful act
which was celebrated in the beautiful
poem: 1.-THE Blue and the Gray" The
custom was followed for some years,
particularly in the south before the
establishment of regular day for this
ceremony.
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Memorial Day.

We have shed bitter tears for loved and lost
ones,
Yet our dear dead are never far away.
IT'S we who drift in thought and feeling
from them,
Though toward them stth we turn, Memo
rial day.
Then may these flowers bear tidings to
those loved ones
The subtle fragrance rising like prayer
And tell our longing and our deep devotion
To those-not lost, but dwelling other
where.
Our Fathers house, we know, has many
mansions;
They dwell in others while in this we stay.
Could we but see their loving hands reach
toward us
And draw us near again, Memorial day.
Judith Spencer, in Good Housekeeping
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FOR MEMORY'S SAKE.
Memorial Day n Time for Especial
Remembrance for the Loved
Ones That Are Gone.

Memorial day, with it's sweet, sad
significance, is again at hand, the one
day of all the year devoted to memory,
and to beautiful and tender offices for
those who have gone just beyond our
sight.
Especially set apart as a day of low
ing recognition of the deeds of the
brave young heroes who gave up every
thing for God and country during the
civil war, it has gradually grown to
be observed by all who miss the ia
miliar presence of loved ones, who have
gone out from their lives, never to re-
turn, as time of especial remem-
brance.
In thought, however, Memorial day
is still especially associated with the
veterans of the civil war, and year by
year, as the line of march has grown
shorter, and the aged participants
feebler and grayer, a deeper tinge Of
pathos has been added to the beauti-
full custom of strewing with flowers
the graves of comrades who fell in bat
tie, or who have since fallen out by
the wayside of life, and all of us have
been forcibly reminded of the time, so
near at hand, when the last of these
men shall have gone home, and the
work of decorating their graves shall be
left to the children of our day, and so
On to their children's children.
And these children have been taught,
in homes and in schools, the meaning
of the day, and of late they, too, have
joined in the loving work, their tiny
hands and sweet voices lending a ten
derer note to the loving message of the
season.
In our fancied security, however, we
have confined our thought to the past,
believing that the number of heroes
graves would be complete when the
last veteran of the civil war had gone
to his reward. But this year the day
has taken on new meaning. The UNI
expected has occurred, and one does
not need vivid imagination to picture
the Memorial days of the future, when
a younger generation of men shall pay
loving tribute to their comrades, brave
men all, who gave up their lives in the
service of humanity Elizabeth Rob-
bins Berry, in Boston Budget.
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Catarrh Cannot BE Cured

with Local Applications, as they cannot
reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a
blood or constitutional disease, and in order
to cure it you must take internal remedies.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur.
faces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not quack
medicine 1t was prescribed by one of the
best physicians in this country for years,
posed of the best tones known, combined
with the best blood purifiers, acting direct,
ly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect
combination of the two ingredients is what
produces such wonderful results in curing
Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, O.
Sold by all druggists, price 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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In July next the N. E. A. for 1899 meets
at Los Angeles, California. This should
mean a great deal to you because it affords
an opportunity for travel to the most in
teresting part of our continent at wonder
fully low rate. 1t goes without saying
that you ought to take advantage of such
chance and in taking advantage of it, see
all that you can.
wish to make suggestion. During the
last few years l have been brought into
quite close relations with many teachers
and schools through our series of wonder
land books issued annually. | am anxious
that our teachers should reap the full bene-
fit of this meeting at Loss Angeles and the
low rate at which they can travel. The
finest scenery in California and the North
west is found on the Shasta Northern
Pacific route via Portland. therefore, go
north when the convention adjourns, see
Mt. Shasta, the Sacramento Canyon, the
Siskiyou range, visit Puget Sound, and
also if you desire, Alaska. You can by do
ing this see also Mts Hood and st. Helens,
and from the Sound country, Mt. Rainier,
and perhaps Mt. Baker. Then when on
the Northern Pacific eastward bound, Mt.
Adams can also be SEEN These mountains
are the finest glacial peaks in the world
this is true-and range from 10000 to near
ly $1,000 feet in hight and are seen fer
their entire elevations.
By thus returning via the Northern Pa
cifc, the climax of the trip, the greatest
educational as well as scenic feature of the
entire journey is yours-Y ellowstone Park.
No other railway touches the Park Re
member that.
Make up your minds to return home as
have indicated-via Shasta-Northern Pa
cific, and you will always be glad you did
SO.
If you have not copy of our Wonder
land '99, send me-Chas. S. Fee, st. Paul,
Minn.-six cents, and will sent you one
and also Park map folder.
For other information, rates, ETC., adj
dress Geo. ID. Rogers, d. P. A, st. Paul,
Mimi. and your letters will have prompt
attention
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How clearly he could see her as she
slim, girlish figure clad in clinging
white. Her cheeks were flushed and
her mouth tremulous, but the chin was
firmly set. All through the war he had
carried in his heart the memory of her
as she stood in the sunshine, framed Ny
the stately pillars of the gallery; while
he, with despair in his heart, but a
logged determination in his eyes,
turned, when half way down the broad
avenue of live oaks, and, lifting his
union cap, murmured: God keep my
southern sweetheart"
How often he recalled her words. He
could almost hear them now: go. You
are traitor. l never want to see your
face again.
The old man shook his head sorrow
fully. No, she would never forgive him,
not even now, after all these years.
Well, he would go back north on the
morrow, SO what matter?
He and the Ralston boys had been
college students together. He would
pay a visit to their last resting place.
He opened the gate and slowly made his
way among the flower-covered mounds.
When he reached the Ralston lot he
looked about him sorrowfully. He felt
sadly desolate. He alone was left of
all those merry, laughing fellows.
Presently his eye wandered to grave
somewhat apart from the rest. The
scarcity of it's flowers drew his attten-
ton to it. He wandered idly toward
it, thinking: Some poor, friendless
chap"
He started and then dropped upon his
knees in his eagerness to read the
simple inscription on the headstone. 1t
ran:
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An Excellent Combination.

The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy,
SYRUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the
CALIFORNIA Fig SYRUP Co., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa-
tive principles of plants known to be
incidentally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. 1t
is the one perfect strengthening laxa-
tive, cleansing the system effectually,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
to overcome habitual constipation per-
manently Its perfect freedom from
every Objectionable quality and sub
stance, and it's acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing figs
are used, as they are pleasant to the
taste, but the medicinal qualities of the
remedy are obtained from SIENNA and
other aromatic plants. by a method
known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP
Co. only. In order to get its beneficial
effects and to avoid limitations, please
remember the full name of the Company
printed on the front of every package.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW YORK N. z.
For sale by all Druggists.-Price SOC. per bottle.
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They died for country. Meath the somber
sod
They lie in silence, heroes all,
Where the soft winds murmur and the
grasses nod;
They died for country at their country's
call.
Deck with flowers that sacred mound,
In solemn gratitude. On hallowed ground
We stand, where brave men sleep, a sainted
throng.
Your fearful tribute and your solemn song
Shall prove the fervor of a nations woe,
The glory of the sacrifice they made.
And as your chant arises, soft and low,
Upon the grave Gods gentle sunlight
plays,
AS if in blessing on the resting place
OF those who persisted in the darksome
days.
Edward S. Van Zile, in Once Week.
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Cured.

.:Jove, old man, I'm glad to see you.
1 haven't seen any of the boys for
ages"
That's So"
Say, where's Charley Green? When
1 was here last he was head over heels
in love with Miss Deudimple. Got all
over that by this time, l suppose?"
'Yeup, all over it."
''Gave her the throw down, did he?"
mo, he married her."-Detroit Free
Press.
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:.t%aisszs5a4slXnIE sunny south. He
was in haste that
his mission should be concluded, 50 that
he might get away from the quiet,
sleepy village. The very beauty OF its
fragrant spring dress saddened him.
In timid, hesitating way he had
made a few inquiries for old friends,
but the answer was ever the same. War
had scattered most of the old families.
Those alone remained who slept in the
peaceful cemetery in the dip which
formed vale at the bend in the river.
Sand the Ralstons?''
All were gone. Of the impetuous,
high-spirited family, only Miss Erma
was still alive. The Ralston boys
four of them-lay in soldiers graves
beside their gallant father.
Mrs. Ralston had seen her brave boys
brought home dead one by one. But
she gave them for her country's sake,
gladly, but her heart was slowly break
ing. She did not long survive her hus-
band.
did Miss Erma still live at Iron
wood?"
No. The old plantation was desolate
and Miss Ralston lived in little white
cottage down the road, the one almost
smotbered in jasmine and roses.
The gentleman took his cane and
with Il brisk step which told of some
young blood still flowing in his veins
started down the street in the warm
spring sunshine. The square shoulders,
erect head and firm tread all bespoke
the soldier.
AS he came in sight of Miss Err
mas house his steady walk became
jerky and finally settled into an uncer-
tain amble. For the fraction of a sec
ond he paused at her gate, then beat
hasty and confused retreat. Complete
ly out of breath he drew up beside the
high arched gate which opened upon
the soldiers last tenting ground.
by Jove! It's no use. I couldn't
face her." and the old man mopped his
brow. "Whew! how her eyes did blaze!
Facing a cannon is play to standing the
fire of Erma's angry eyes"
He leaned against the post. The
light died out of his face and he thought
of that long-away time when he and
Erma had been lovers. And then came
the war. How quickly had followed
that awful day when he went to say
farewell and she would not look at him
because he wore the hated blue He
tried to argue, tried to persuade, but
she would not listen.
She was a southern girl-Col. Raj
ston's daughter. If he fought the
south, he fought her and was her dead
ly foe. Was it not cruel enough that
the dreadful war should deprive her of
her lover, without calling him to fight
against instead of for her?
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Contrary.

eyes, [ see him. What is there so Pc
culiar about him.
''He is the contrariest man alive. He
has started Wen Worry All We Want
To club" Boston journal.
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attention
His Snan.

Mrs. Finnigan - Bedad, yer hoosbind
drisses as iv he wor a fure-walker er a
banker! Phwere is he wur-rkin'?
Mrs. Flanagan Shure, he's got an ILL
CANT job in horseless livery stable. fadin
air t thin hobo-mobo troocks!-Puck.
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!" music clear,
We fall into ranks and we answer
To our names on the roll call: "Here!'
But each year are our numbers fewer.
And still as the years go by
There are fewer and fewer to honor
The graves where our comrades lie.
Yet the blue May skies bend above us,
The flowers our full hands bear,
In wreath and in cross and in cluster,
Their same fresh spring beauty wear.
Time brings to them never such changes
AS fall on each comrades head
Ere he lays down his burden and hastens
To join the ranks of the dead.
The tender and clinging green grasses
Have decked all the soldiers graves,
And the flag we fought for as gudon
In its starry gemmed glory waves
They have given their life for its honor,
And therefore we come to-day
To bring them, in tender remembrance.
The laurel, the palm and the bay.
One by one shall our ranks be lessened,
One by one will our comrades pass
AS they join the great silent army
In it's bivouac meath the grass.
Til at last shall we all be lying
In a dreamless and calm repose,
Beneath the summers sweet sunshine
Or the shroud of the winters SHOWS.
But the tears of Nature above us,
In showers or in falling dew,
And the songs of the birds around us
Shall come with their tribute true.
In the heart of the great earth mother
Kept so close to her tender breast,
Till the last great reveille wakes us
We shall lie in our quiet rest.
But until the last summons calls us
We will march, at the bugle's note,
To ma w
In solemn remembrance float.
There we pause for moment in sorrow,
AS each year, when this day draws Nigh
We come with our hands full of flowers
To the graves where our comrades lie.
MARY N. Robinson, in Good Housekeeping