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The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11
Charged with Priests .,eatn.

Philadelphia, Jan. 10.-Jacoh Whine.
Annie Bryan. Charles Burns and Ellie
Barrett were arrested charged with par
ticipnting i'll the murder of Father lie
gel, who was found dead on Saturday
night last in the hallway Of a lodging
house in tho Tenderloin district If this
city. Robert Bryan wis arrested in New
York, and hc made a confession, inpli.
eating those now arrested and another
man whom the police know.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11
Many Bocr Attacks.

London. Ian. 10. Lord Kitchener sends
news Of a simultaneous Beer attack on
the night Of Jan. on the British posi-.
tionS between points 80 miles apart along
the lines Of the Pretoria and Lourenco
Marques railway. The losses on both
sides were heavy. According to reports,
the Beers were beaten off after prolonged
fighting.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11
Grin In PhiIadeIphiu.

Philadelphia. Jan. 10. - Philadelphia
physicians say the grip is spreading
through the city with the rapidity with
which it has claimed more than 100000
victims in New York and Chicago. Few
deaths have been reported as due directly
TO the disease, but the general increase in
pneumonia which has its inception in
the grip is causing much alarm to the
caretakers of the city's health.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11

Authorized to Act as
TRUSTEE EXECUTOR. ARMIN.
ISTRATOR, GUARDIAN, AS.
SIGNEE, RECEIVER. REGIS.
TRAR AND AGENT.
Translates n
GENERAL TRUST BUSINESS.
Allows Interest ON Deposits
Loans Money on Mortgages and
Other Good Securities.
Attends TO the
T. Management Of Real Estate and To
the Collection and Remittance OF
Rents, Interest OH Securities and
Dividends on Stocks.
Rents Boxes
In its New Burglar and Fircproof
Vaults, Makes ample provision in
its store Room and Vaults for the
Safe Keeping of Securities and
Valuable Packages placed in its
custody.
Keeps wills without Charge.
BENJAMIN NIELDS. President.
WILLIAM Il. BRlNCKLE. Vice Pres.
JAMES Il. CLARKSON. Treas. and See
JOHN s. ROSSEIL. Trust Oiicer.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11
Columbia Lodge Installation.

Grand Inside Watch Curtis Kirk and
staff have installed the following officers
elect of Columbia Lodge, Ancient Order
az United Workmen: Past Master Work
man, Neal J. Toy; Master Work man, L
L Bad 4; Foreman, E. 4 Fersro; Over
seer, Samuel Fisher; Guide, Charles
Hsgan; Inside Watch, D. J; lynch; Out
side WaJch, +. l.. Tully; Recorder, w.
A. Runner; Financier, N. T.. Bell; Re-
ceiver, E Ainsworlh; Medical Examiner,
DIR. Swithin Chandler; Trustees, I. Nj.
Moore, Lewis Hartmann, Robert Barnes.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11
p comoke to Have Ice Company.

Dover, Jan. 10-Certificates of incor-
poration were fled. here today as fol-
lows.
The Pawnee Lake and Stilwell Irriga.
tion Co., of Kansas CITY, Mo-, TO estab-
lsh and encourage irrigation on lands in
Kansas; capital stock, 100000.
Tie Pocomoke City Ice Co., Of Pcco.
moke CITY, Md. to manufacture, sell
and deal in ice and other cold products;
capital stock, $50, 900
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11

New Orleans, Jan. 10. = Major Nal
Burbank of The Picayune, widely known
as II dramatic critic and rs the author Of
the humorous column of that paper, dice
suddenly in Il street car. lie came here
with the northern army during the civil
war and had been associated with Tie
picayllne fns many years.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11
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A Hanging In Pennsylvania.

Greensburg. Pa, Jan. 10. - John j.
Sadler, convicted Of the murder of Stew
art McCune on July ;, 1899, was hanged
in the county court yard. Sadlcr and
McCune qualreled over keg of beer,
and Sadler was badly beaten. Later he
procured gun, lay in waiting for Nc
Cune and as he came out of his home
shot him dead.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11
Mr., SeIak Gets Contract.

Postmaster Browne and Andrew W.
Seak nave been officially advised by the
Postoffice Department in Washington
that MIR. SeIak had been awarded tie
contract for carrying the mails between
the postotfice and railroad stations for
four years, beginning On july |, next.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11

Kansas GilF, Jan. To- Physicians. car.
rying on tie crusade Of compulsory vac
cination begun recently, will start Il hous,
to house canvass, vaccinating every opt
who cannot display a good scar. The
city will % divided into districts. am
oach physician will he accompanied by 4
gilar,! 10 prevent hiding and escaping.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11
The Reading Car strike,

Reading. Pa, Jan. TO-. The opening OF
the third day of the tie up of the United
Fraction company's lines found no change
In the situation. No attempt was made
to start cars, although there had beer
rumors that this would be done by the
use of strangers brought from Philadel
phia.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11
Prenaring a Work on China.

Major General James IL. Wilson is
busily at work on the proofs for his re-
vlsed book on China. Il will be- pub
lished by the Appleton's and vii proc
ably be out in about month.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11
The President Better.

Washington, ian. 10 Secretary Cor.
tclyon said that the president had had q
good night and was distinctly better. No
complications of any kind have appeared,
and everything is progressing satisfac.
toriiy.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11
New Lofts for Haymakers.

Deputy National Chief Haymaker HI.
G Thompson of the Natlonai Hay
m ,kers' Association, is actively at ork
ia this district and iour new lofts ale in
prospect, IcludiDg one at Newark.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11
will Celebrate Anniversary.

The silver wedding anniversary of
Sheriff and Mrs. Samuel A. Mcdaniel
will be held at tile mansion at New
Castle on Monday evening. About 700
persons are expected to attend.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11
DEATHS.

WlLLEY.on the Sth inst, Mary NJ. widow of
Robert A. VIII ey, in her TN year -
Relatives ami friends are invited TO attend tho
funeral at her lac residence Main Street New
ARK Del Jon Friday the 18th mss, at 2 o'clt Ok
p, N, 49,
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11
Marshall Brothers start New Mill.

Marshall Brothers. new paper mill at
Yorklyn began the manufacture of a pat
emit paper invented by Israel Marshall,
one of the firm. This paper is indelible
and will be substitute for legal docu-
ment papers.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11
heir Efforts
Every p
Wre|

Farainan, 30
After a night
/ the passenger
Gamer Russi,
Pitch stranded
|lt storm Mo
bltled.
AS the life
pre- with the
II afternoon, v
tnication wit
Is possible. I
td as follows:
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lnsternation p
Pm receipt of
Idle two more
ut. but We're
ssie disappca
board were nj
lir only renal
Ihe storm ra
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Re. part of I
Raulin and OF
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midnight {
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the early no
erc lighted
md in respol
II made anc
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Re, and the I
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From the st
land with tn
but not disc
I Herois
teir heroisnl
Nth daybrca
moderated.
| the wind
\ around. !
Y 630 a. M.
gators waite
as the he
Eaves. Nj
I, hit she was
rose in sigh
as and Apr
Russie.
a rope
ben caught
ard was d
wiling wind
pm board I
Jed by the
her boat,
vhen launc
Big the w're
Nv minutes
tlssie's side
Nded the 81
R be wonlt
iasm was
ipged into
Pie women
em in til
10 dry Ian
Woman wa.
who had
onday. S
from wre
to die
collapsed
food. IL
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The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11

Presenting tile following repertt ire:
Monday matinea....... q attanoopa in '6l
Monday nigGt........'rhe Niciorlau Cross
Tuesday mat .....'Taixt Axe and Grown,
luesdav night 1.-THE Grip III Steel
Wednesday nat...The DEVILS Gold Mire
Wednesday night. TIE New South
Thursday mat
The Woman Fr,m Martinique
thursday n'gfit.....A Coustry Cour ship
FRIDAY at................The Grip Of Steel
Friday nlght......The DEVILS God Mine
Saturday mat ...............The New S ruth
Saturday night, Ten Nights in Bar Room
A Diamond Ring Given Away at
Every Performance.
Rings purchased Of and on exhibition
In the window OF Charles A Fiel, ). W.
Corner Fourth and Market rtreets.
Pricte-Matirees, 10 an 20 cents.
Nlght-l0, 20, 80 cents.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11
COL. JOHN WAINWRIGHT,
Late 9th Pr. Vols.
EXPERT PENSION AGENT

Offices No. West Seventh street,
Wilmington, Del. Widows pensions
secured in from 40 to 30 days. Slow
cases hurried up. If you want quick
pension write to me for papers and in.
structions. Spanish war pensions pro.
cured
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-11
SECURITY TRUST AND SAFE
btP0 1T COMPANY.

80 Market St., Wilmington, Del.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-16
Fineness and Delicacx.

The lower animals do not draw
very fine distinctions; civilized men
measure things by millimeters. A saw
age who is building a hut gets two
poles which seem about the same
length, and difference of foot or
two doesn't matter; a man who builds
locomotive, or safe door, or type
writer, or chainless bicycle must
have fittings that will not vary by the
hundredth of an inch. An essential
condition of culture is unremittipg
care for host of trifles, all of which
unite to make the perfect whole.
Without accuracy and punctuality. no
civilization. All our sense of beauty
is perhaps merely the recognition that
certain forms have exactly hit an i'm
perceptible underground between an
infinite number of slightly different
possibilities. If there is any one thing
which shows an educated man Il don't
say a college man, for it must be adj
mitted that this is usually the yorv
thing that a college man is as ignor-
ant of as the nakedest savage in the
heart of Australia) it is that he knows
the enormous, fateful, all-signifcant
diference between thing which is
right and thing which is almost
right; that he approaches the great
truth that the difference between 80
and 100 is not l, but infinity.-J. T.
Hatfield.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-16
THE FLOWERS OF THE SEA.

The sea has flowers as the land has.
but the most brilliant of the sea-
flowers bloom not upon plants but
upon animals. The living corals of
tropical seas present a display of
floral beauty which in richness and
vividness of color and variety and
grace of form rivals the splendor of a
garden of flowers. The resemblance
to vegetal blossoms is so complete
that some persons find it difficult to
believe that the brilliant display con-
tains no element of plant life, but Is
wholly animal in its organization.
Among the sea animals which bloom
as II they were plants are included.
besides corals, the sea-anemone and
the sea-cucumber. DIR. @. M. Black
ford. Jr.. remarks that among the CO.
raj gardens the birds and butterflies of
the upper world are replaced by fishes
of curious forms and flashing colors.
which dart about among the animal
flowers.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-16

One of the most recent and useful
applications of electricity is to the
work of typewriting. An electro mag
net is put into central position in
one OF these typewriters In which an
ink ribbon is used. In such machines
there are lot of type-bars, which fly
up and hit the ribbon and white
paper, thus transferring some of the
ink from the ribbon to the sheet. The
magnet is properly connected with
some convenient source of current.
The keys of the machine are so ar
ranged that depressing any one OF
them, no matter how lightly, will turn
on the current, energize the magnet
and make the latter do the heavy work
Of operating the type-bar. The type
bar then falls back to its normal posi-
ton automatically.
In the manufacturers salesroom and
business office, where the machines
are In use, plug has been inserted
in the electric light socket. and cur
rent Is taken from the local lighting
circuit. A flexible twin cable leads
nected by binding posts.
The machine can also be operated
by using five cells of primary battery
or two small cells of storage battery.
There is very little current consumed,
as was shown by metre measuring
the current used by one machine in
constant service for one month. The
bill was twelve cents.
The strength of the electro magnet
is controlled by a well-known cleo
trical device known as a rheostat, the
handle of which is just back of the
magnet, so that the force of the inn
preston Is regulated at the will of the
operator, according to the kind of
work being done. For ordinary work
a weak current Is used, but for taking
carbon copies the strength of the cur
rent Is increased, so that the type-bar
delivers a stronger blow. More than
twenty distinct copies with carbon
paper have been made at one time, of
a quanty not yet attained by any nom
electrical typewriter.
Other advantages of the electrically
operated typewriter are thus stated:
Only a light touch is necessary, four
ounce touch being, sufficient to operate
the key; the depression of the key is
only about one-third that of non-elec-
trical machines; running or overlap
ping touch is easily acquired by the
operator and several keys can be de-
pressed in succession without releas-
ing the preceding key; saving of
one action on each word is made by
making the space simultaneously with
last letter of the word; the printing
is uniform as to clearness, as each
type-bar is impelled by the same mag
net, in the same manner, and with
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-16
wopAoE IN UNITED STATES.
ws,k Of Department of Agriculture In
the Southwest .

the Southwest
AS early as 1874, DR.. George Vaser,
Inc botanist of the agricultural depart
nent. began his work on the impF0se
ment of the forage supply OF tne
limited States. At that time the nay
product of the country amounted 10
about 25,OOO,OO0 tons per annam. -
the Northern States the forage proD-
lem was already. in the main, solved
but in the South and in the west tueie
was a deplorable lack of suitable Ior-
age plants. New England and new
York had brought their grasses anu
clovers from Great Britain, and o"ihs
to a general similarity OF climate hau
found them satisfactory. Thelr use
had extended also to the mlddle west
with equal success. With the increase
of stock raising in the cotton country
of the South, however, 1t was lounu
that the old and well-known Iorase
plants must be replaced by others, Det-
ter suited to the warmer climate. Dur
ing the next decade, following the
rapid depletion of the wild forage sup
ply of the far west and the Establish
ment of homesteads throughout thas
region, the similar discovery was maue
that the common forage plants OF the
East could not Withstand the dry cil'
mate. For many years the department.
brought together by correspondence
information along these two lines, ana,
in 1884, collected 1t in the form OF
book entitled, "The Agricultural
Grasses of the United States" In the
year 1888 the lump sum appropriated
for botanical Investigations and ex'
periments was increased from S2,OOd
to $4,000, and the establishment OF
forage experiment stations was at CAR
den City, in western Kansas. A large
number of grasses, both native and
foreign was cultivated at the station
without irrigation. At the end of the
five years lease, in 1893, after the va
rious species clearly not adapted to the
region had been thrown out year by
year, the experiment resulted in the
demonstration that two forage plants,
Hungarian bronze and red Kaffir corn,
and one grain, Jerusalem corn, were
the crops best suited to cultivation in
those portions of the southern great
plains where irrigation was lmprac-
ticable. A few other plants, notably
Colorado bluestem, gave promise OF
success, and their cultivation has since
been followed in other portions of the
plains. The station was an object les
son to the thousands of despairing
farmers. 1t showed them that Kaffir
corn could produce a good crop when
everything else was killed by the
drouth; that Kaffir corn was the equal
of maize for fattening hogs and feed
ing farm stock, and that it could be
made into good bread.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-16
AN OUTDOOR ELEVATOR.

In the drawing below is shown a
fire escape designed by a Minnesota
inventor. 1t is intended to facilitate
the escape of persons in high build
ings in case of fire, and can be utilized
long after the elevators inside the
building have been abandoned on ac-
count of the intense draught caused
by the open shaft. This apparatus Is
intended to be operated by the fire.
men, the car being already suspended
from the top of the structure, with
its cable extending downward in read
mess to be spliced to the one carried
by the fire engine. The latter cable
is carried on reel connected with the
engine, and small steam engine IL
provided to wind up the cable and
haul the empty car to the top of tho
building after each load OF human
freight has been deposited safely at
the bottom. To regulate the speed of
descent brake is provided and tho
car can be stopped at each floor. A
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-16
ANITA rhat GROW mn.hroom..

Prof. w. M. Wheeler in the Ameri-
can Naturalist describes species OF
ants which raise mushrooms" for
food. They first cut leaves into small
pieces and carry them into their I'M
foreground chambers. Then they reduce
the leaves to pulp, which they de-
post in a heap In this heap the
mycelium of species OF fungus finds
lodging, and, the subterranean condi-
tons favoring such result, minute
swellings are produced on the vegeta-
BILE mass. These are the "mush-
rooms" which constitute almost the
sole food of the colony of ants that
cultivates them.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-16

There is an opulent old Irishman of
a methodical turn in this town who
mas genial idiosyncrasy extremely
embarrassing to manageable young
women, says the Chicago Chronicle
he also has an eligible son who for
years has obstinately remained a bach
elor. The Hibernian Croesus is wont
when in attendance at dances to sin
gle out the prettiest young woman in
the room and seat himself beside her
AFTER praising her beauty in a most
outrageously fiattering manner he will
suddenly ask her if she knows bis SON
Tom. No matter what the reply is he
VIII say: We'll, you're mighty likely
and handsome girl and Pm going 10
send Tom around to see you-vop,d
make him good wife. What DAVIS arg
you at homer"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-16

The groups OF coast-defenders on
duty at life-saving stations are now
having their most trying experiences.
One OF the force describes sentinel
tour along the shore in terrific gale
with binding snow. He was unable
to keep his feet. but crawled to the
outer limit of his beat, and returned
In the same manner. The cold and
fatigue made the night-watching an
exhausting test of endurance and cour-
age. His warning light was happily
not needed, and no vessel came within
the danger line; but the devotion was
ready and the duty faithfully fulfilled.
In the homes of comfort and security,
when darkness and tempest bring nc
fear to the householder. let not the
men whose service often means peril
and privation be forgotten. Sympa-
thetic thought, and whatever is needed
to make their lives exempt from un-
necessary suffering, ought to be a glac
offering to the brave and patient men
whose record is an honor to them.
selves and to their country.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-16

A woman reformer recently pulled
from the folds of her gown soiled
American flag and waved it before
the audience, saying that she had
waved II from public platforms in
every country in Europe. 'More's the
pityl" murmured much-loved gen
eral, who had lost his arm in fighting
under that emblem. Those who see In
our flag liberty and justice and mod
Grafton do not necessarily wave IL
above their heads; but perhaps they
viii sustain 1t long after those who
every -sday wrap themselves ostenta-
tious-y in its folds have dropped in
the rear.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-16
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Animal Invaders of Europe.

Mr.. l.. Stejneger showed before the
Biological society in Washington at
its December meeting how there have
been three great migrations of Siber-
ian animals into Europe. The first two
occurred in connection with the age OF
Ice, but the third is still in progress.
and both birds and mammals are now
passing from Siberia into Scandinavia,
the most travelled route of the invad.
ers lying along the shores of the Arc
tic ocean.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-16
The Bsrony of Delv,n

me earl of Westmeath, the newly
erected s go representative Irish peer IS
Just 80 years of age, and has taken :
deep interest in politics ever since he
left Christ church. He was On 800. ~
az washington before he became one
OF Mr.. Chamberlain's private secretars
res ana MS experiences include a vis,,,
70 Newfoundland as secretary 70 ~.
royal commissioners in 1898 Tho ha
rony of Delvin, which is his ne pa
Henry II. tue time o.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-16

Hhn&S hbouN the rAmGuse AppI0.
The history of the Fameuse apple In
Vermont reaches back to 1900, and in.
Canada hundred years further. This
history is not so well known as that
OF the Indian wars, but it is fully as in.
teresting, and has quite as close con-
nection with early colonization and
with the subsequent progress of civil
ization. In fact, students of history
are coming to see more and more that
wars and politics are not so signiH-
cant as industry, invention and agri-
culture.
Sometimes, however, the Fameuse
seedlings varied more or less from the.
parental type, and came to be recos-
nized as separate varieties, like the
Mcintosh, Shiawassee, Scarlet Pippin
Louise, La Victorie. etc., so there are
now whole group of the Fameuse
progeny. These have been sought ont
and described and their histories re-.
corded, afong with the romantic tale Of.
the original Fameuse, by the Vermont
Experiment Station. A new bulletin.
by the horticulturist on "Apples of the
Fameuse Type" tells the story. Ii ia
at once paper on a modern horticul,
tural topic and trifling contribHtior
to American history
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-16
RESULTS FROM EARrHouAKE STUDY

Prof. John Milne says that upon
knowledge derived from the scientific
study of earthquakes new rules and
formulate for engineers and builders
have been established, and these prin-
ciples have been widely applied In
Japan and other countries, thereby
minimizing the loss of life and prop
erty. Such studies have also been of
practical use in the working of rail-
ways, especially in Japan, by local
izing faults in the rocks and suggest
Ing alterations in the balancing of
locomotives. Another advantage
gained relates to ocean cables, as it
has become possible to indicate parts
of the sea-bottom that should be
avoided in laying such cables.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-16

Wearers of eyeglasses are fire.
quently annoyed in cold weather by
the deposit of moisture that forms on
the glass upon entering warm room.
According to German technical jour
nal. simple preventive of this annoy
anee is the rubbing of the glasses with
soft potash soap every morning After
the soap is applied the glasses can be
polished bright, the invisible film that
remains sufficing to prevent the de-
posit of moisture.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-07-16

train moving at this speed in twenty
yards means that 1t must be brought
to full stop in four-fifths of sec.
ond. When we remember that, in an
end-on collision. 1t takes several Sec
onds for the momentum of the train
to expend itself in telescoping car into
car, one Is moved to ask what would
be the condition of the living contents
of passenger car that was brought
to stop in fraction of the time thai
1t takes to bring the last car of tele.
scoping train to rest Scientific
American.