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Evening journal., 1900-02-09
Dockstader's Theatre.

Greatest Bill of tho Year,
WEEK COMMENCING FEBRUARY 8.
Charles Grapewin, Anna Chance,
George Melville, Maudc Conway. Henri
Laurent. Fred. Bornsman. Mile. Jean
Dore. Walter Stanton. Tinni Corri
VIII Colby, Cricket Colby, Master
Colby. Topsy Colby, Ralph Post, Nell
lie Clinton. George Hoyt. Ben. Neff.
Nellie Seymour Ed. Lavelle, Prof
Hornsman and others.
Admission the same, 10, 20, SOC
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Although the world has become
somewhat hardened 70 the distress IN
India from hearing SO often reports
Of want and misery In that unfortu-
nate land. a ia none the less horrify.
ing TO learn from Lord Curzon that At
the present thousands are starving
there
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Woman's work has widened and ex-
ended so wonderfully in the last few
years that II seems as If every sphere
and phase must be exhausted. So IL
IS that one feels like congratulating
the woman who has hung out her
sign as an advertisement construc-
sign She is rhymester by nature.
and she sits at her desk all day long
building Advertisements for the butch
or the baker and the candle-stick
maker. She can build as airily and as
hippantly as her clients want
Evening journal., 1900-02-09

That intellect expands carly in the
great west is shown by Miss Belle
Flemming. Of Pauls Valley. Ind r..
who is only II years old and yet has
been admitted 10 practice law at the
bar Of the United States Court of the
northern district Of tho territory. Miss
lslcmming has been amusing herself
with blackstone and Kent since she
was II years old.
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Advertise your wants An ths Dvcnsna
Journal Employment wanted. heiy
wanted, 10 let. for rent. tor sale. beard,
ne. an3 lost ard found as. VII b o'1c-
--~ho4 thres lIs4z. CO -aa for cimal
thrs@ elznes for q oua<tar.
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genious mother might make IT. herself.
the hest way is TO get pattern, which
can be found at almost any pattern
store. II is published herewith. he
cause II Is pretty, warm, and not at
all clumsy.
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Rovs, overooat.

The Illustration shows a handsome
boys overcoat. It is double-breasted
what boys like-wide collar, square
corners and nicely fitting. An in
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Florence Nightingale now spends
all her time in bed or on couch. but
has all the papers read to her. in order
70 get the news from the Transvaal.
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buslNass NOTICES

LADIES Coats altered ana refined al
KINGS, els Grange street.
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100 u
Great MId-WintGr Clearing Sale !
Our Entire Winter Stock
..MUST BE SOLD OUT.
To move this Tremendous Stock quickly
we inaugurate to-day this
GREAT SLASH IN PRICES.
GREAT sLAsH I'M PRICES.

Women's Goodyear Glove Rubber
Shoes. regular price SOC. Clear
ing price, 2Sc. Sizes 2, 21a, 3,
az.
S2.S3-I.adies' Hand-sewed, French
Kid. Button or Lace Shoes up
to-date styles we're S. Clearing
price. ........ .-..... .....-. Sz.oo
$1l9-lAdies' Button or Lace Shoes.
with kid patent tips. vassar and
bulldog toes. were a bargain at
Sl.75. Clearing price,. .Sll9
tsc--Women's Rubber Shoes. sizes 2h
TO T. regular price, S5c, Clearing
price ......s.-... -.......-. .loc'
7Oc.-Ladies' India Kid Button Shoes,
regular price, csc. Clearing
price .......... ....--..... ..fOc.
81. 69-Ladics' Box Calf Walking and
Skating Shoes. These shoes are
CT select stock. up-to-datc, rein
16c Ladies Tailor-made Owe
| price
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THE LAwT0E OPTICAL co.
GIG Market Street 0rera House
2rildine

$50 Uslh1r,ia Phone s7S. u. & a.
1918. ~
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WANTED
BOARD AND ROOMS.

FOR RENT-Unfurnished room Ap
ply No. 9O3 Orange street.
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PUBLIC SALES.

W. A. HUKILI.. GENERAL AUCTION
FER. calls sales in city and country. Ad-
dress Ba1'3rd Building. Ninth aud Mar.
ket streets, Wilmington, Del.
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RErIOVAL

DIR. r. P. BURNHAM. Dentist. re
moved to sos West Tenth street.
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forced back-stays; the best $3.50
shoe, now. ......,.. ........$1.69
81 .s3-Ladies' Heavy Winter Russets.
just the thing for an outdoor
shoe, the greatest SO shoe. will
go at Observation-Disclosures. 81 SO
s1.93-Men's Russian Calf, Box Calf
and vici Kid SO Shoes we bunch
together and clean up at just
s193
$2.3O-Men's Patent Leather Lace
Shoes, were S3.4S. Clearing price.
$3.50
81 e0-Iadies' Hand-welts. in two dif-
ferent styles. lace and button,
made of fine Wei kid, box calf
and French kid, big 50 value;
clear up at. .............. 1.90
Don't fail 10 sec our great bargains
in Boys and Girls Shoes, with stout
and medium soles
Mems Satin Calf Lace Shoes. s1.4S
value. They go at..........95c.
CATERS, soc value. Clearing
I6c.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-06

through no less than n campaigns. 50
ne Is by no means new one at the
business. IL rs interesting 10 mention
that he went through the Bocr war OF
loSO-l. I'm fact, there has not been an
important campaign during The last 20
years mat has not seen him hanging
somewhere about the nrng line draw
ing pictures and taking notes as fast
az MS nimble fingers could 20. lie b. a
busy, fussy little. red faced English.
man 1ollN, self satisfied. bumptious ana
irritable on occasions yet y fine artist
Wilhal. ana always ready to face anv
danger or any hardship In the quest for
news. The number Of medals and
crosses he can display would put many
AN old army officer to shame. for in his,
day be has done n great number ~
big things and knocked aboiit ,+i.h-
many a great man.
OF the war correspondents I'm South
Africa, perhaps the one I'm whom public
interest. at the Cape az least. has con.
tered - Lieutenant Winston Churchlu
the talented and somewhat audacious
son Of Lady Randolph Churchiu 10
has been we'll described here as Tho
Richard Harding Davis of tho Trans
'aal war, Tor nc has a number OF tho
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-06

You can't believe an honest man on
! oath. remarked an old postal clerk as
! he finished his run. II recently had a.
curious experience that proves it. AS
an Illinois Central train was ready 10
put out one afternoon with our mail
car on the end fine looking old gentle
men came running along the platform.
was standing on the steps of the
car
Are you a mail clerk?' he asked
hurriedly. and, finding was. said
Wen, mere. I wish you'd take these let
ters for me- ] was so anxious to be
sure they got off i'm this train | wouldn't
trust messenger. but brought them
down myself The one 10 Mobile is
very important
He handed me three letters. Now.
it's curious fact that nine times out OF
ten a man viii hand letters TO a mail
clerk with the address on the under
side. They seem TO think we have no
business to read the address. as IL mail
would arrive at the right place If we
didn't / took the letters and turned
'em over.
important?' / shouted
Well it hasn't a sthmp on it,
" Young man. the old'fellow remark
eel as he looked at the envelope, n
would have sworn that I remembered
licking that stamp and sticking il on
That's the way ii goes" continued
he clerk. a man can't trust his own
senses. few years ago a registered
package was missing from the mails be-
ween a town down i'm the center of the
state and Chicago. The postmaster at
he small town, a judge and a prom
nent citizen. swore that he put the
package i'm the mail pouch. An investi-
cation was commenced, and his afli-
apit -4eas forwarded IL Washing tom
What have you 10 say to that% the
Inspector demanded OF the clerk who
hould have handled the package.
" Nothing. sir. except that the pack
gc wasn't i'm the pouch replied the
lcrk About n week after that when
looked pretty blue for the clerk. the
overhauled his desk. Right
n top. under an accumulation Of news
apers. was the package which the
swore ne remembered put
ne into the mail sack
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-06

ents now knocking about the Cape and
nave just realized the number of IA
nous men we have watching the war.
OF All the correspondents now i'm South
AFRICA Frederic Nilliers Is perhaps the
most illustiious. This veteran war art
ISL ana writer has made his name IA.
lhiiiar with all readers OF military lit
erature FOR the last 90 years Mr. VII
Hers is not yet quite 90 years OF age.
hNt a life or adventure and hardship
mas made him a prematurely old man.
A carly as 1876 he went 90 Scrvia dur
ing the war there ror the London
Graphic. and 10 is worth noting that to-
day ne is representing the same publi.
cation here IN South Africa. He was
also with the Russians during their in.
Vasion of Turkey In 1877 and went
along with Lord Charles Beresford In
the Condor in 1852. During the follow.
ing year he was invited to- Moscow by
AleNander III and was present az Abu
Nlea In 1855. His next assignment was
ne Chino-Japanese war. being with tho
Japanese army during the battle of
ing Yang, and also participating in
nc march ON and the taking OF Port
Arthur IN 1894.
Durins thc year ISg' Nilliers accom-.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-06

letters Tor The Morning post U.opdon,
He was also with thc Spanisb forces in
'iiha during ga, year 1895. ana two
years later when attached o. The Tlilr-
~ -Hist Punjab infantry served with
th' MaiRkand field force and was pr,N
en- AT tho operations against Bajlur.
~ was also 4 IL said member of the
iran eNpediuonary force AS an order
" "iuceF 10 Sir William Lockhart. IL
Va only early In the present year that
-. resigned his commission In the Brit
~" army ana made az unsuccessful cf-
tort 10 enter English politics. having a
sort on hankering after the strenuous
me not proving very successful at
this, he sought refuge i'm South Africa.
ana mere ne Is today, a prisoner cooling
ms heels In Pretoria Ho has written
TWO or three books. and an Of them
nave been more on less successful. His
African experiences are sure 10 be good
Tor another volume. ana that IL will be
a popular success. IT. he lives TO write II.
II foreeone conclusion.
Ah"thcr clever reporter who came 10 \
AFRICA ON the same paper with Winston
churchill is +. T.. knight. Mr.. Knight
however ~ now here I'M Cape Town
nursing a wounded stump Of a right
arm Tor "A Boer bullet at Belmont made I
aHputation necessary. knight is we'll
hhoWh mere as reckless sort of dare 4
ieVl who would go anywhere for a Bit /
Di news or face anything for SCOOP
or his paper During the Spanish /
american war he was The Times re-
porter IN cuba, and his letters to Lon
Ion describing that campaign attracted
nush attention, as will be remembered.
Nhlsht is by no means a greenhorn az /
he lighting business. for his military ex
'eriences extend back 10 about 80 years
go, when he accompanied the French
u the Franco-Prussan war Since then
MS writer has chronicled the fortunes.
he comedies and the tragedies OF MANY
ampaigns in different quarters OF this
ig world. including such expeditions as
he Hunza- Nagar operation the Mata
eie rebellion. the French expedition
ITO Madagascar. the Sudan expedition
nd the Greco-Turkish struggle. Nat
rally his different reports OF such ;
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-06

iittie laiiinss II the great Amcrics,
correspondents lie takes delight ,r
advertising himself IL rs claimed
ana it must bc confessed mo- bag -
brilliantly successful at this since ba
mas had himself captured los the 9oers
mas displayed great coolness ana brav'
cry under a CALLING fire during the M !
tack on the armored train when ne ,vas
cut on, and since has escaped from HE
captors, and rs. il rs reported again
made prisoner. An these escanodss
nave united TO make Churchiu tho mos,
picturesque figure in Journalistic cir,
cles az the front. Just whore ne is NJ
present II Is Impossible 10 tell though
u is likely as not hc VIII give tho no1,s
the skip before long He is cooI
specimen Of humanity. and every one
who knows him feels quite assured tina.
ne will make himself comfortable vhcr-
ever he may be and will busy himsoIs
gathering up news no matter whore tbe
3oers have quartered him off.
Churchilfs case is not unlike that ~,
Lady Sarah Wilson. who. although
lomlnaliy nurse at Mafckipg ,vas
eaily a correspondent for the London
,hronicle Early I'm the war LADY
sarah Wilson was taken prisoner by
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-06

the Beers. II was expected that she
would be at once returned when Il was
seen mat she was under the insignia OF
IN" Ecd Cross. This however the as
tui' butghers declined to lo. and there
was considerable Indignation here at
cape Town when 10 was reported that
lhe boers were Offering Co exchange
lhIs iady for General Niliopn when IL
Us remembered that Baden Powell turn
'a bacN to The Beers several dozen OF
'helI own captured women. the action
"f me Neldt officers In this AFFAIR does
not increase their popularity with the
Anglo-SaNons. Lady Sarah Wilson dld
NOT get "a chance 90 send in much COPY
to her paper. but II is more than like.
~ she VIII have some very interesting
tales To tell when she finally passes
over 10 her friends again ana the pres
ent struggle Is a thing Of the past.
JUST a Few days ago a friend OF Win
ston Churchill was telling me that
churchill served through the Sudan
campaign with the Twenty-nrst Iancers
ana was one Of those who took part in
.he famous charge az Omdunnan. His
impressions of this campaign. / be-
i'No. ne embodied in series of what !
isfc have been described as brilliant
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-06
WAR CORRESPONDENTS TN SOUTH AFRICA

painted the Greek army In its brief i.ut
lhslorious campaign against Turkey.
ana durlng this war used the cinemato-
sIaph Tor the first time I'M The history
OF campaigning lie also here intro
uuced Tor the first time the bicycle as
feature in European Warfare. Last
year he accompanied the siYdar on his
auNance up the Nile and was present at
.ne bloody engagement AT Omdurman.
NOW ne Is seeking fresh laurels i'm the
present struggle against the Beers. and.
ulthough the reports he has been able
10 send back. 10 his home paper have
been pitifuly measer. Il is expected
mat there Will be a ViIicrs book nnt
on the Boer- British campaign before
many months have come and gone
Another equally well known var
writer and artist who IS waiting 10 dis
himself at the front h the old
warhorse, Melton Prior. whose picture.
Dt the opening scenes OF the campaiep
nave already aroused, great deal OF
comment They have been appearing
m The Sketch and the London Illus.
rated News. from which. il is rcport-
'd here, they have been widely copjed
n American papers. Melton Prior has /
represented these two publications |
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Some Of the Brave Fellows to Whom the
Newspaper Reading Public Is Indebted
For Daily Reports of the Stir
ring Incidents of the Boer-
British Struggle.

OuTH AFRICA, just at tho pres-
ent time, holds half hundred
tuning. .fretting, swearing, dis
appointed and heartbroxen war
correspondents. Some OF them are here
ln Cape Town. some are scattered about
up country"
Inc struggle going on at present be-
tween The Beers and the Britishers
- not proving the journalistic Klondike
that was expected. This is not because
there Is any dearth OF good news on at
tractive literary material. In fact. Il is
iyihg around loose, heaps and heaps OF
IL. But not one word can be sent out
OF the country. The British military
authorities control the two cables Which
constitute the only avenues OF commu-
hlcatlon with the rest OF the world. and
so the war correspondent can do moth
ing but sit on his launches and swear
ana wait for the censorship TO be re-
moved on the slow going mail steamers
io carry his belated dispatches home
ward
The censorship that has been estab-
ilshed here at Cape Town is very strict
indeed. Practically no news is now AL
loMed To 90 through. excepting. of
course, the official reports OF the differ
cnt onlcers and the messages 10 ana
from the war Office I'm London When |
IL is remembered that men. some of |
the most brilliant men i'm the world |
nave come thousands OF miles 10 behold |
'he inherent sights to be seen during
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-06

vance up the Nile. be.nr one of those
correspondents who wcr. porcmptoriIv
sent back from Mctemmoh by General
Iitchercr
Nh.'D early ln the war. Air. Thie,e.
30 sald hc represented The london
weekly Graphic. arrived in cape Town.
"c was lhe source 90 good deal of
amusement. The general smile which
he aroused was caused by his OUTFIT.
winch was large and elaborate enough
10 Set pp a dozen professional pho
tosraphers in business. Never before
had a correspondent been sent 10 the
'front.' with such an equipment Huge
cameras, boxes Of plates almost TONS
oi apparatus We're IN his outfit. and
all OF these he fastened Off To- the front
with bent on getting photoprapbs oe
every possible engagement The resuIt
thht ne has secured hundreds Of
stfiklhg and valuable SNAP shots ~ dif.
Ier'nt engagements and Incidents ~
lhe battlefield. These are unioue i'm
,"''I way Tor never before have mill
i'"ly mancuVeis been so pictured II
- S"Iu they VIII have "a value of their
NNH because ~ the light they viii
'HI"N on the methods OF different ofn
,eIS ana regiments under nre and viii
" considered ~ the home officials of /
'h' war oiiicc These pictures will cost
'he London Graphic nice tidy little I
sum nut VIII undoubtedly hc a profit
hple investment FOR that paper i'm tho /
'hd M view of the advertising which /
VIZ result from such enterprise. In
ACT IL must be confessed that an war
correspondence is very extensive
leih on newspaper account hook
'u'' Notwithstanding this. all large ma
'ers are ready and willing 10 nav for
Npefls 10 gather war news FOR them.
eallzing that the people will quickly
ee just which paper is giving the best
ieWs service. In this way many new
II second class papers have been built
p IN very short while. A striking
Xample of this is the case of the Ion.
on Dally Mail, which published the
'af letters OF the correspondent G. w
teeVehs Although IL cost many a good
ound To secure Stevens and his lot
FRS, IL was found 10 be money We'll in
ested, for the owners Of The Daily
Iail soon found their paper being
uoted all over the land and their cir
llation jumping up by the thousands.
No. while the correspondent often
axes Famous his paper. the paper on
le other hand. often makes the corre-
)ondent. Some ambitious ana ener-
'uc young fellow is given an unlimited
'pense account, the prestige Of a met
politan paper and the opportunity 10 :
low how he can describe great and
lfring events. If his letters are good
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-06

ana prove anyway popular. they are
sure to be sought after by some pub
Usher later and brought out I'm book
form. This means more notoriety and
more money FOR the correspondent. His
risks i'm the field. il is true are great.
out TO the man who survives the dam
gers and diseases OF camp life behind
the firing line await fame and fortune.
what's man got blood for but TO
SPIN, anyway as George Lynch, the
dashing young Irish war writer FOR the
London illustrated News said to me not
long ago But IL Is not often after all
mat the correspondent spills his blood
HIS greatest danger comes from the
tendency to spill his ink. Just at the
present time, though. the war writer in
south Africa Is being too carefully
watched by the censor TO have any
such danger as that hang over him.
HERBERT w EUSTON.
Cape Town. South Africa.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-01-06

scenes have given him material for
many books, all Of which are popular
enough in England. but not quite so
wei known I'm America.
Another Of the old warhorses who have
Deen gagged by the press censor here
ls Earl de la War;, who came out TO
south Africa as the special correspond
ent for the London Globe. have been
trying to find out something about his
| personality and history but have never
! yet had a glimpse OF him. as ne is now
/ somewhere up country. / find. however
\ mat Earl de la War; is still a young
man Of some 30 years and a second son
/ or the late Earl de la War;. whom he
! succeeded i'm 1896. when he was only
20 years old he made a trip 20 the west
/ coast or Australia ON a 20 ton Yacht
ana showed his love OF adventure by
engaging IN the pearl fishery business
ia southern waters. This Is his first
experience as a war correspondent at
the front. though ne has seen n bit of
bush fighting in Australia on the south
coast.
The Daily Graphic. the London paper
which probably prints more war pic
lures than any other publication, is
well represented at the front Its most
prominent man here rs W. F. Maud.
who for over four years has represented !
The Graphic In various parts OF the /
world and may fairly be considered as 4
an old campaigner. though he Is stiIl /
young man beside Niliers and Mel
ton Prior Mr. Mauds first foreign
service FOR The Daily Graphic was un-
dcrtaken toward the close Of 1896. when
the crisis In Turkey was at its height
and the powers were doing their best
10 force the sultan Co redress the suf-
ferings OF the Armenians. The Graphic
pictures Of the oppressed Armenlans
which Maud sent home 90 England
were among the most moving contribu-
tons sent 10 the press on the subject
and established his reputation I'm his
native land~as n keen observer and an
able artist. Then hc went TO witness
he Cretan civil war and some time
later went TO Armenia. y His second
rip was carried out amid many perils. /
ma he was forced 10 go through the ,
'nected territory In disguise. and with
10 small difficulty. Then came the / Z
ireco-Turkish war. which found Maud
fastening 10 the front TO watch opera !
ions from the Greek side. where no !
Witnessed all The principal engage. ,
1cnts After this he went 90 tho Sudan 2
nd accompanied the sirdsr in his adj. !
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The kaiser has one of the heartlest
appctites INA a nation of huge eaters
though hc is very sparing with his
drinks. like his grandfather before him.
His favoritr wine is hook or moselle-
two very different things. though they
are often confOunded-and these he
generally mixes with mineral water.
When the hottest M of Chauvinisn was
on him, after ascending the throne. he
forbade the use not only of French
words on his menus, but also OF French
wines.
But tho kaiser has now become less
exclusive Ia the wines NJ offers his
guests, having perceived that the boy.
cotting OF French champagne would
only tend 90 exaggerate the feelings Of
a vauquished nation and retard its rec
onciliotion to tho accomplished facts
or lsiO-l. Al the same time though
occasionally admitting French wines to
ms table. he stu figidly excludes
French words from his bills OF fare.
But the French still retain the SOW
ereignty over the stomachs OF men and
monarchs, and there Is q French chef
I'm the imperial kitchen at Berlin.
Their majestios rarely or never lunch
on dine without several guests. and /
these are OF far more varied and mis- /
'ellaneous order than are ever admitted /
to the table Of Queen Victoria. The 4
kaiser has little time for reading books.
but he is great reader OF minds. /
iiligent picker OF the brains 81 men
His majesty possesses-cven Bismarck
.rankly admitted this--a remarkable
'aculy Of assimilation. and he is the
greatest questloner of his time. hut.
hough also one OF the best takers OF
'is day he Is nevertheless q wonder
ully good listener. which Is one Of the
arest qualities Of clever men.