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J. B. COOPER'S STORE.

Flour, Meats, Butter, Lard,
Sugars, Coffees, Teas, Rice,
Crackers, Molasses, Syrup, Salt,
Spices, Pickles, Soaps, Oils, Soda,
Candles, Lye, Baking Powders,
Blue, Extracts, Soap Powders,
Canned Goods, Starch, Vinegar,
Barley, Powder, Shot, Tobacco,
Cigars, Brooms, Baskets, Buck
cts. Tubs, Washboards, Oilcloths,
Brushes, Ropes, Twines, Nets,
Corks, Lead, Seeds, Medicines,
Threads, Cottons, Needles, Pins,
Hose, Suspenders, Towels, Crash,
Umbrellas, Whips. Toothpicks,
Looking Glasses, Table Knives,
Pocket Knives, Scissors, Purses,
Combs, Musical Goods, Shoe
Findings, Balls, Banks, Games,
Shaving Articles, Fishing Tackle.
Walters, Spoons, Lamps, Lamp
Fixtures, Pipes, Tops, Wire
Goods, Tinware, China, Stone
ware, Crockery, Glassware,
Enameled Ware. Earthenware,
Flower Pots, Pipe Guards, Bibles,
Hymnals. Albums, Blank Books,
Memorandum Books, Poems,
Reading Books, Picture Books,
Pass Books, Writing Paper, Mu-
sic Paper, Fancy Paper, Wrap
ping Paper, Drawing Paper, En-
velOpes, Cards, Inks, Pens, Pen
ellis, States, Tablets, Papeterius,
Chalk, Crayons, Erasers, Mu-
cilage, Jardiniers, Fruit Jars,
Fans, Backing, Bonds, Deeds.
Notes, Tacks, Bells, &c.
The above gives an idea of the vari-
ETY., but you will learn more about the
stock, and the quality and the condi.
ton and the prices and our way oi
doing business if you patronize the
store for awhile. Call and see.
n 00@nrn
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Black Dress Good

fabrics in both mourning
and novelties. Some of the
handsomest blacks we ever
offered are here in CamePs
Hair, Cheviots, Henriettas
in both silk and wool, and
some beautiful neat and
plain effects in splendid
qualities. Our black dress
goods are always known as
reliable and only the best
makes find a place here.
Our mourning department
is especially strong and will
please you. Our prices
range from 25c. to SIS per
yard, and we should be
pleased to have you look
through the stock.
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Down Quilts.

filled with best eiderdown
and covered with fine sat-
inc and silk. They are all
new designs and coIorings
in large assortment, at S.,
$3.50, So, 50 and $l2.
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Never bear more than one kind OF
trouble st a time. Some people Dear
three kinds-all they have had, all they
nave now and all they expect to have
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Also,

1000 yards Stripe and
Plaid Outing Flannel for 81
cents per yard. 1000
yards Fine Black Satine,
2O-cent grade for l23c.
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The Levy Court gave the Whining
1on Ci Railway Company permission
to lay tracks on Washington street
bridge for its northside extension.
The court did not wish to have it con-
strued that it was granting an exclusive
franchise and so stated in its resolu-
ton.
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Vim. B.Sharp &CO.
Fourth and Market Streets,
WILMINGTON, DEL.
HOSier,yS.


Just one lot of 72O pairs
Children's Fast Black Stock
ings, in sizes 3 to93. These
Stockings have double knees
heels and toes. Being the
balance of a large lot, we
are enabled to sell them at
half the regular price-1O
cents per pair
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Learn to keep your ears open ana
wovr mouth closed.-Dallas News.
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For Saturday,

Fifty more of those Fine
Tufted Silkaline Quilts filled
with a fine lofty cotton, 50
cents instead of $l.5O.
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If immense registration counts any
thing, the popular vote will be largely
in excess of '96, when it was larger
than ever before.
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The New York Herald's advice to
the politicians stop talking and let
the people think-was good enough to
be followed, but it will not be.
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1t will be dangerous to refuse loan
if the example of the Pa. coal miner,
who shot his friend full of holes for
refusing him loan should be gener-
ally followed.
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Postal card polls and other methods
of ascertaining how cities will vote
are interesting in their way but wise
men will not back them with their
money.
New-York tribune., 1900-11-08
PERSONAL.

'Twenty-seven years ago says Tine St Louis
Post-Dispatch,' Charles NJ. Hays. aged nineteen
years was clerk in the Frisco Railroad offices IN
st. Louis, with salary of S4J month. Last week
Mr.. Hays. forty-two years OF age ana
still retaining his home IN st. Louis. became the
president of the Southern Pacific Railway. the sec
airy viii be IS OCo Year. making him the highest
saiaried railroad man in the world and DetteI
salaried executive than the President Of the United
Paul Staritzky OF the Moscow Locomotive Works.
who Is making inspection of locomotive plants
in this country, says: There six eight loco
motive factories Russia, OF the largest being
located at Kolomna. not far from Moscow. l am
satisfied however. that for all general purposes
the machines made in this country are superior for
the Russian service. In the matter Of large ma
chinery for manufacturing there Is httle difference
~ t .Ie ID y i ot ~, 80
the European machinlStS
Holman F. Day. Of The Lewiston Journal" has
been appointed military secretary Covernor-elect
John r. Hill of Maine
Sir William Lyme has offered prize of 800 for
the hest ode in commernorat tion of the new Com
monwealth OF Australia
Twenty-Five years ago Lindon Bates Of Chicago.
was compelled through lack of funds discontinue
his course the Sheffield Scientific School and
enter railroad office a clerk. Then he went
into the building of railroads. and in 1898. having
secured the contract to build two miles of the Chi
caSO Drainage Canal. he constructed a hydraulic
dredge which attracted the attention of engineers
ernment TO he used in the Mississippi River, which
than four times the amount of earth called
for. Now the Nolga River is being dredged by his
machines and under his supervision an outlet Is
being made thereby for the commerce of the CAS-
plan Sea y Teauess Of the Russian Director .}I Of
and harbors. suggesting in his extended reports
improvements that will double Russian shipping
facilities. He also has dredges 10 the value of
81 so 900 operating in the harbors and rivers of
Queensland. Australia. The perpleXing problem of
the unnavigable Hoogli River was solved upon first
investigation and the harbor of Calcutta Is being
made of the finest in the world by one of the
Ba dredging fleets. Another dredge Is preparing
sail for the harbor of Macquarie, Tasmania,
where another large contract has been closed. and
he Just closed contract to dredge the Scheldt
River for the city OF Antwerp. The InteTna tional
Congress Of Navigation at Paris this year awarded
him gold medal for mis- paper on The Naviga-
ton interests OF Nations in Ports and Waterways:
and Modern Means Of Their Improvement. and
upon hydraulic engineering applied TO navlga-
tion he is ranked the highest authority OF his
New-York tribune., 1900-11-08
THE RESULT ABROAD.

The remark has frequently been made in the
last few weeks that the progress of the poi1tlcal
campaign here was more closely watched this
year and its outcome anticipated with greater
interest by foreign nations than ever before
The reasons obvious. The United States
has in late years grown enormously in inter
ma tiOnal Importance. and the complexion OF IT'S
Government has thus become a matter OF en-
HANGED international concern. That is legitl-
mate and creditable reason Another potent
one Is that the success OF Mr.. Bryan would
have portended ominous reversals Of established
and traditional American policies. The placing
of the United States upon silver basis would
have been something no other country could
have regarded lightly. The practical abrogation
of the Treaty of Paris and the abandonment OF
the Philippine Islands to anarchy or interna-
tional grabbing would have been an incident OF
worldwide concern. The intrusion of the United
States for partisan purposes into the domestic
affairs of other lands, and it's entrance into
those alien entanglements which it has ever
hitherto so scrupuously avoided would have
marked a and disqueting epoch in inter
national relations. And these things were dis
tinctly foreshadowed in the success of BRYAN
ism. Nor did It matter IL such indications were
to some extent fictitious. Foreign nations on
the ground of simple courtesy, were bound to
take Mr.. Bryan in good faith.
II is not the least of our causes for rejoicing
in the Republican triumph that the continuance
of an honest, dignited and worthily American
foreign policy Is thus assured There will he
no hauling down OF the flag. no Sinking OF
duties, no meddling III the business of other
lands, no scuttling from scenes of legitimate
interest and responsibility, no entangllng ALI
ances and no gratutOus offences TO friendly
Powers at factional dictatiOn. And there will
be no pretPnce nor menace of these things for
partisan effect or profit. Republican Admins
tratOns have established and enhanced the
honorable prestige of the United States abroad
That prestige will be maintained and in all
parts Of the world the simple title of an Ameri-
can Citlzen will he the guarantee of protection
and the passport 10 esteem
New-York tribune., 1900-11-08
no MUNICIPAL TOUTING.

We have not often met with a more objection
able proposition than that recently made to the
Board Of Aldermen Of this city, and seriously
considered by that extraordinary body. to farm
out TO an advertising concern the privilege of
placing rubbish receptacles in the city streets
The concern in question would place in the
streets some thousands of iron boxes or barrels,
into which people might throw waste paper,
cigar ends. banana peels and the like. instead
of littering the street with them. In itself that
would be a good thing. conducive to the neat
ness and cleanliness Of the city. 1t may be
said that such receptacles should be provided
and then there should be severe penalty
strictly enforced. for all ltterng of streets The
that these receptacles are to be only secondarily
and indeed incidentally for the public good
Primarily they are TO be for the private gain of
the concern which provides them. For they are
TO be utilized for the posting of advertisements
III such receptacleS are desira ble and we be-
heve they are, they should be provided by the
city itself on the simple and sole ground that
the public welfare demands them That such
branch Of the public service should be farmed
cut 10 private corporation to be exploited for
IFS gain. and indeed should not be undertaken
AT all save Tor the latter purpose. Is a violation
of the souudest fundamental principles of mu-
A1iN'P"i government we nave no doubt the
proposed scheme would be profitable to the cor
poradon, and in one sense would be a saving
and source of profit TO the city itself But
there are some higher considerations than mere
pecuniary gain. The city doubtless could rear
handsome revenue by letting out the front of
the cry Han TO be covered with advertising
posters. Policemen might have such signs
STUCK upon their backs. The walls of a court
room, instead Of bearing allegorical figures Of
Law and Justice, might display pill posters and
bitters bulletins. SO the Federal Government
might prohtably add penny in the slot"
attachment to every letter box and let some
: enterprising tradesman print his advertisement
upon every postage stamp
These extreme cases would of conrse no
regarded as utterly intolerable But they differ
from the one actually proposed in degree only
and not in kind. AS matter of principIe II
would be just as Objectionable as any of then
4 private corporation should no more be per
mitted 10 put advertisements upon waste paper
boxes in the streets ia return for providing the
boxes than IL should to put posters on the dials
Of the City Hall clock in return for the service
OF winding the clock. Public property is no
place for the making of private gain The bill
boards that already abound IN the streets are
an abuse. They are an encumbrance OF the
public highway for private gain. The advertis-
ing signs on the Public Library site and on the
hOardings and scaffoldings erected on public
property around innumerable other new build
by permitting such Disagreement Of its prop
New-York tribune., 1900-11-08
ANTETAMMANY UNION

A common impulse turns the public mind Of
This city from the Presidential contest just con-
Guided to the Mayoralty contest a year ahead
Signs have not been wanting for some months
that a great number Of our citizens were look
ing forward, planning for the overthrow Of the
present corrupt local administration and only
waiting for the Presidential election to be over
10 begin active work preliminary 10 the coming
municipal campaign Already the leaders of
the Citizens Union trying 10 extend their
organization. and Republican politicians are
discussing among themselves plans for an anti
Tammsny campaign.
The conduct Of MIR. Croker this fall has been
influential in arousng the public 10 an even
more than usually acute sense of the disgrace
this city suffers from the domination of such
man. and il has encouraged workers for honest
government 10 hope that the exhibition NAV
spread the revolt against Tammanys brutal
and blackmaillng methods among the better
class OF those voters whose ideas of party regu-
larify have hitherto held them TO the suppOrt of
Tammany tickets The detestation Of Croker
ism is much more widespread than II was three
years ago, when sel1shness and divided counsel
obscured it. = experience of corruption
most cynically paraded and the memory of the
mistakes and failure of 1897 have prepared the
way for campaign which ought 10 be success
fuI IN 1901.
That campaign cannot begin a day too soon
as work Of organization aud education. Every
right individual AMI associated influence should
al once be made active TO arouse the conscience
and also the enlightened sef-interest Of the citv
10 teach the people of small incomes who have
been. under a delusion the chief bulwark of
Tsmmany strength how Tammany domination
robs them and hurts them morally. physically
and financially Let everybody talk about the
campaign, discuss methods of union spread the
feeling for Cancellation, suppress every mani
festation of jealousy and keep in sight the main
ebject-tbe overthrow of Tammany under what
ever leadership can best promote that end. 1t
viii be useful TO have = popular discussion of
the merits and availability of as large list Of
New-York tribune., 1900-11-08

Now that the labOrs of the Presidential can
vasS of 1900 have been crowned with victory
as complete and decisive any the Republican
party has Won in its long and fortunate history,
The Tribune can fairly congratulate itself that
Tuesdays result offered surprise 10 t4e
readers who have followed the course of the
campaign in its news and editorial columns
Early in the canvass and soon as political
conditions had measurably declared themselves
we took occasion to say that certain elements
In the situation made a Republican triumph in
November practical certainty. support which
had been lacking in the campaign of 1896 had
come TO the Republican cause through the oper-
alton of influences quite foreign 10 the great
tional struggle of four years ago Instead of
the Solid South and almost Solid Further West
which made Colonel Rryan'S candidacy for
midabe in 1896. the Republican party had this
year to face only an already crumbing alliance
between those two sections The Pacific Coast
States. il was evident. had permanently repu
dated all that Colonel Bryan's candidacy stood
fer in his earlier canvass. The Rocky Mountain
States had lost faith in his leadership and
We're ready to abandon his doctrines. The
Middle West stood arrayed firmly against
him on his first appearance in our politics
as a disturbing agitator and his only possible
hope of success rested on winning to his
support the votes of the hitherto unfriendy
East.
In our view this hope empty and
baseless one. and we were therefore constant
and outspoken in declaring in spite of much
alarmist talk of popular apathy and indiffer-
ence. that Colonel Bryans second campaign
would end in even greater disaster than his
first. The Tribunes readers have continually
had ample security against deception as to the
course and outcome of the campaign. and it is
a qualification to feel that they were prepared
even for the extraordinary victory Of Tuesday.
New-York tribune., 1900-11-08
GmusfmfuIe.

AcA DENY OF MUsIc-s:I5-Monte Crstc
AMERICAN Michael Strogcn
81J0G-6-The Belle of Bridgeport.
BROADWAY THEATRE s:io-FoTy CUTLER
zeASJSo-S-The Belle Bohemia.
EBFTERI0N THEATRE-s-i0-Zazz-
EALYS THEATRE-S:to-San Toy.
EpES MCSEE-The World in Wax.
ENPfRE THEATRE-S:a Richard CarVel-
FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE-s-Lost RNer
$sARDEN THEATRE-S-Henry V
fsRAED OPERA HOUsE-s-My Daughter-in-Law.
ANNERSTEIS'S KICTOFIA-S:3G-In Central Park
HARLEM OPERA HOUSE-S:15-Steriock Homes
HERALD SQUARE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
FRYING PLACE THEATEE-S:l5-Non Stufe zu Stute
ETH ss-tcOntIuUous Performance.
br<IcEERBOCKER THEATRE, Agion-
ROSTER & BIALS-i2:i5-svaudevlle
asYCFIM THEATRE-2-S:3t-A Royal Family.
14ETROPoIITAS OPERA HOUSE-S-Mikado.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN a III. 10 il p m--Au-
tomObiIe Show
MADISON SQUARE THEATRES: :50-Hodge. Podge &
& Co.
MURRAY Hill. TFfEATRE-2-s-The Nominee
ffHE ES1U-IORK-s-Vaudeviie
PAsTORS-Day and Sight-CoEtinuous SHOW
FROCTOR'S .nuous Performance.
S1FOY-S-Aistress
zFEEATRE REPU BIIC-S:I5-Sag Earbnr-
ASsAII.ACKS S:3fTae Greatest Thing in he
World The Moment % Death
New-York tribune., 1900-11-08
RELIEF FROM THE SLUGGERS.

The repeal OF the Horton law has rid New
York of the dishonest prizefights by which so
many bear eyed dupes were gulled and de-
spoiled. Few illustrations of human folly have
been more amazing than the eagerness with
which not only the keepers of dramshopS not
only the hasest elements OF city life. but also
substantial aud we'll known members of our
chief exchanges and business men OF promi-
nencc and ability focked to so-called boxing
matches which were fraudulent through and
through. Why was it that citizens Of capacity
and brains who had proved themselves to be
shrewd enough to hold their own in the fiercest
struggles of Wall Street speculation and the
most intense rivalries of business were so pur-
blind as 10 pay extravagant prices for seats at
spurious and swindling meetings of boxers who
in most cases had bound themselves to mislead
and cheat the makers of wagers on the results?
What singular anxiety to be ieeced and vic
tmized was shown by the business men who
paid ont 50 much money to witness these per-
verse and delusive exhibitions. which We're
planned and put through to stuff the pockets
of conscienceless rascals with tainted gains.
Since these schemes 10 plunder the witless
lave been stopped in this State several of the
fakir> who controlled these affairs have fallen
ont among themselves and have indulged In an
edifying series of confessions These diSclos-
ures have been numerous and have come from
such sources that the veriest dolt must now
that the boxers and their hackers and
agents have acted in the most knavish manner
imaginable over and over again. And in the
slimiest part Of this vile cesspool in the black
est Of the bog, appears the figure of we'll
known Tammany State Senator whose interest
in faro banks, poker dens. poolrooms and indie
cent shows has brought upon him an evil noto-
riety hardly 10 be matched even in Tammanv
Hall.
New-York tribune., 1900-11-08

nossfbIe candidates as may be. At the same
time II Is essential that such discussion should
he entirely tentative, and that every person and
every organization should refrain from all at
tenpts TO force any one man upon an anti
Tammany ticket or 10 keep any one man on it.
The mistakes of 1897 must not be repeated,
The iudependent who starts out with the theory
that he is too good 10 support candidate pro
posed by the Republican organization merely
because he is proposed by it is an enemy TO the
welfare of this city. The Republican who starts
ont with the idea that he will support no candi-
date proposed by independents and not first
selected by his organization Is not worker
against but worker for Tammany Hall. The
task OF both Independents and Republicans
should be 10 study popular sentiment find out
who is wanted by the people and support him.
not TO pick out a candidate and by dint OF
shouting or strength of organization try TO make
Others take him. We have had enough Of con-
claves of naf dozen men. whether party
bosses or self-consttuted leaders of indepen-
dents, picking out a candidate for Mayor and
'-hluffing' to secure his nomination. Less stub
hornness. more open mindedness, are in order
this wear all sides.
We nave reason to believe that the Republican
organization, under the influence of Governor
elect Odeli and General Greene. is sincerely de-
voted To such union seems most likely TO
bring antTammany victory and good govern
ment, whether the candidate determined upon
is it's own particular choice or not 1t GER
tainly should be So No less ought the MEM
hers of the Citizens Union to be ready TO con-
slider Republican feelings and the fact that any
successful anti-Tammany ticket must get more
than half its votes from Republicans. 4 true
non-partsan union should be- achieved. not on
candidate because he is favored by any body,
partisan independent. hui on a candidate OF
unquestioned fitness who the months go by
seems most TO be the favorite OF voters longing
for honest and efficient municipal administra
ton The selection of that candidate may profit
ably be postponed until popular feeling mani
tests itself. and meanwhile all temptation TO
constran the expression of it to the furthering
Of any preconceived plan should he resisted by
all sincere anti-Tammany workers First secure
an anti-Tammany union and a popular move
ruent able TO give it victory. and the proper man
to fill the Mayors chair will be found in good
time
New-York tribune., 1900-11-08
GOOD OHENS IN CTRt

Constitution making in Cuba begins auspi
clously. III" convention has opened promptly
peacefully and amid much popular interest and
enthusiasm Evidently the people of Cuba hay
confidence in their chosen representatives and
regard seriously and hopefully the work which
they are about to do Some time ago there was
talk about the unrepresentative character Of
the convention and the unwillngnesS of the
people 10 accept its findings. That is no longer
heard. On the contrary according TO General
Wood, there is every Indication that the salts.
faction of the people is complete
That is gratifying. Even more gratifving
from the American point of view is the temnar
OF the convention as manifested toward tho
United States. The first act of the convention
upon organizing was to express its satisfaction
with the manner in which the Military f,ov
ernor has performed his delicate duties and it
gratitude toward and confidence in the prasi
dent or the United States. II would be snnar
nuous to dwell upon the fitness of those exnres
sions or the ample measure in which they .ro
deserved Their subjective signi6conca CO..
passes their objective in practical i1nnortoroo
as an Indication OF the Cuban attitude tovor1
the United States. The Cubans APPRECIATE ,ho
unselish-we might say the uniquely unselfsb
conduct of the United States toward them ON,
they are convinced that the United States ho,,
lhS SWOiH, " III Keep IIS Ouln, whether to
own profit or its own hurt
1t is well that this is So because if ,.o.,,.
we'll for the outcome of the convention,s doIito,
ations. Had that body met in a spirit Of spSni
cion, Aistrust and antagonsm toward rho Irnitna
States there would have been little hone Of ,ts
formulating a constitution acceptable to tho
United States. Meeting as II has. there g. S,,at,
hope. And II must not be overlooked that il g.
In the realization OF that hope that the conv.n.
tions success must lie The crux of the situa-
non Is IN the sound principle expressed in tho
Presidents historic intervention MESSAGE, 90
April II. 1898. In that message the pres,do~+
asked for authority to intervene in Cnho &,
0rder ITO secure the establishment of .
stable government, capable Of 4nnintajnin,,
order and observing its international obIi,,n,
lions lnsurlng peace and tranquility and tba
security Of its citizens as well as our ou,n +"
Ihat Was the purpose of the Administrator