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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-03-07
FEBRUARY TAX COLLECTIONS,

Receive Of Taxes and County Treas-
urer Re- Few had the following receipts
from taxes last month: Wilmington,
1898 81, l3l. 49,; ile99, 5000. %; 1900,
81, Hc,54i Bfandywine, $3.50. 60; Chris
tiana, $2l773; Mil Creok, s3a2. 81 !;
White Clay Crock, sll4.1l; New
CASTLE. 1909. l4A rsPencader, s1s6. IL I;
Red Lion, $50 a.; ST. Georges, $3.50. 81 I;
!, 4 ppoaaaies' rr TLs2; Blaohbild'
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-03-07
, strangled Himself to penth.

Williamapoit, Pa, March s. Potter
Berger, who lived alone ut Montgomery,
near here, committed suloide last night
in a novel n,lpner. He fastened q rope
to hedpost and placed TING Moose
about his ne,E, Sitting on the floor
straneied to death. He is said to have
been drinking.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-03-07
RAILROAD WRECK NEAR COATEsvlLLE.

Associated Press Dispatch by special Wires
Philadelphia, Pa, March 6.--An
eastbound passenger train on the
Pennsylvania railroad ran into a
freight train at Hope Tower, three
miles west OF Coatesyille, at noon
today.
Over dozen passengers were T.. jured
by the collision, but how seriously is
as yet unknown,
a hospital train has been sent to the
scene of the wreck
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-03-07

Or. Henry NJ. Flanagan OF PENIS
Grove, N, ~ has started snapper
farm. Last summer he procured three
eggs from losgerhead which he buried
snappers came forth In October, and
they have lived through the winter In
an aquarium. They are about as large
as o silver dollar now.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-03-07
Marriage Announcement

OF Miss Bertha NJ. Ogden of this city and
Hayard Walton Of Philadelphia, which is
to take place next Tuesday, and also Of the
marriage of Miss Sarah Z. Ogden OF this
city and Harry Burris of New Castle, to take
place on Wednesday, March Goth. Tho
young women are sisters.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-03-07

Associated Pres Dispatch py Special Wires
PHILADELPHIA. Pa. March 6--Wheat firm, re
highsG No. PeppsYivania Ia export elevator
7sta1ss1e; No. red spofin export elevator, 775tR
7T9sc. n -
Corn. 1fn, No. Q Tor local trade, 465zc.
0ats, firm: No 2 white clipped. BSc.
Bran. firm; winter in puig, sls.25ale.po; spring
in sacks, st525ai9.0n,
Butter, Nc. lower, fancy Western creamery,
e2hc; do. do, prints, a.: do. nearby. priuts. 2ic
Eggs, le. higher fresh nearly. 1901 DC Western,
l0e.; do sOnthWesteIn. l6e.i 90. Southern, l1c,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-03-07
Smallpox Worse in,eIsssew.

HFsNNFN1l4 I'VE 17l7SH1V4H " NFVrFNF fFbN1f :
Glasgow, Sootlsnd, March 6.--To.
days smallpox report il the worst sinos
the outbreak of the disease here. There
ere AZ fresh cases and the total number
Of smallpox patients In hospitals 10 AIS.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-03-07
atiarriaaes.

BAxTER-b ioRToN-ip Philadeiphia. Pa, on
March Cd. 1901, James Reed BREtrr Of Phiadel
phla and Rebecca Miller Morton Of this city.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-03-07
Fatal Explosion Of Tusbost Boiler.

774'V7 : ~ 1'H'7fV7TF " Sps1FF' WIFEs'
New York, March G. Ono man was
injured probably fatally, and three
Others were more or less burt by the
explosion Of boiler on the tugboat
Nettie Tice, Iloboken, today. The
man whose injuries may provo fatal is
James Curtin, engineer OF the tugheat,
residing ID Jerssy City. Harry Free,
mate; John MAILER, foreman, and
Thomas Wriaht, steward, were blown
into the water by the force of the ex,
plosiou. Thes were all more or less
bruised md suffered from shock.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-03-07

Mrs. Susan Crumbaugh. mother Of
DIR. j.. W. Crumbaugh, died Tuesday
morning at her residence in Lancaster,
Pa.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-03-07

Company a and Company Fl will plsy
basketball at New Castle next Satui-
day evening,
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29

youngest boy came home from school. looking
grave and solemn He had just been promoted
10 the history class. and had been reading about
the War of Independence Father he said
are YOU a Hritsher" Yes. my boy. | am on,
Mother, are you I}rtisher" Yes dear.
| am she said. Well he replied after a pause,
4 don't care You had the Kings army and we
We're only lot of farmers, but We thrashcd
you"
The paper on our Foolish Virgins" which
Mr. Eliot Gregory contributed 10 the November
century, is to have companion of AN other
temper in the coming number. Some of our
Wise Virgins i To chronicle the benevolent
work done by the spoiled darlngS of society
Miss Lille Hamilton French is the author Of
this paper. which is to be literally illustrated.
The three volume biography of Dickens with
which his friend John Forster bombarded =
weary world. is 10 be abridged by the clever
novelist, George Gissing. OF this work it was
said that 1t was "all Forster that not Dick
ems
Only one scandinavian author has been hon
ored by translation OF his work into japanese
This IS lbscn, whose Enemy of the People"
proposed moreover, to perform the drama on
the Jan&ncs2 stage.
Charles Stewart. a British lawyer. has lately
published volume of "reminiscences and in it
tells two stories about Tcnnyson whom he
found Sef-consciOus and accessible to hattery.
day standing beside his chair; he lifted her up
and placed hcr on his knee for half a minute
and then he put her down, saying: Now you
can say you have sat on Tennysons knee"
ON another occasion TennysOn Jowett's
guest at the Masters Lodge EalIol, with Il few
other men. and after some good talk the poet
had retired early To his room. Next morning at
breakfast TennySOn in a silent mood. but
as the men rising from the table he said.
Jowett. after / left you last night / wrote a few
verses; am not sure that have ever done any
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29

ject of an article by NJ Gabriel Ferry in the
current number of the Revue Politique ct Par
lementaire." which reveals the author OF the
Human Comedy in unfamiliar light. IL
will be recollected that on the occasion of Bal
zac's centennial anniversary he was claimed by
each of the political parties of the day. The
conservative Catholic Mayor of Tours objected
to his statue because in his opinion the author
of Les Etudes Philosophiques'' was an atheist.
Edouard Drumont proclaimed the author of
Parents Pauvres" to be anti-Semite; the
"Gaulois' considered the author of the "Peau
de Chagrin" a royalist; NJ. Jean Jaures felt
convinced that the man who wrote the Re
chcrche de FAhsolu" must be a cOeCtiVist. and
II. Niviani felt inclined TO think that La
Physioogie du Marriage" could only have been
written by an anarchist NJ Gabriel Ferry has
unearthed letters and documents showing that
all these suppOsitOns wrong, and that il
would be impossible to find out exactly on what
political bench BalZac would sit if called to the
Chamber of Deputies constituted to-day.
1t appears that Balzac first became a candi-
date for the French legislature in 1881. He
presented himself as a candidate Of the opposi-
ton simultaneously at Angoutme and at Cam
brai His platform" as disclosed by the cleo
toneering pamphlets Of the period. was to re-
establish the natural boundaries Of France to
reduce government expenses, to increase the
customs dues and abolish the hereditary
nobility, but he nevertheless proclaimed that he
was mot an opponent of the monarchy" and
that he was legitimIst by tradition, custom
and obedience" few stray letters however.
furnish evidence that BalZac's Interpretation OF
obedience" that which he owed not to
divine right or to the king. but To couple
Of charming rOyaist ladies' whom he was
simultaneously Offering his heart. Balzac's
defeat at the polls at Cambria and at An
gouleme-two towns inhabited respectively by
each Of his rival ladies-Was most signal He
only got ten votes at Cambria and only thirteen
votes at AngOueme. Balzac's next attempt TO
enter upon political career was in 1913 when
he presented himself for election in Paris His
platform" this time was to improve the con-
dition Of the workmen. He only obtained sev-
enty-two votes and was ignominiousy de-
feated. Perhaps the best political epitaph of
Balzac is to be found in the remark made by
Victor Hugo when in exile at Brussels; BAL
Zac? Why, he had the brain and the heart of
the democrats: all that was monarchical in him
was his imaginatiOn-but then Balzac's imagina-
tiOn prodgious' CIR
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29

ualism. between the mysticism of Emerson
and the realism of Mr.. Barnum. The whole
tends in its higher phases to the beauty and
brutality Of whitman. and in its lower phases
to that union between mean practice and mad
theory which was the dominant trait of Mr..
Sludge the Medium "
Two characteristic sketches of Vermont life
left by the late Rowland Robinson. will appear
in The Atlantic during the coming year.
Their titles are The Publication of Cornbury'
ana An Old Time March Meeting"
one of the neatest and briefcst naval dis
patches ever peuued is quoted in MIR w +.
Lords book on England and France in the
Mediterranean" II was CAPTAIN Walton's mes
sage To his chief. Admiral Ryng. after the de
feat of the Spanish fleet off Cape Passaro in
HIS. and it ran thus:
sir have taken and burnt as per margin.
going for Syracuse and am Sir, your c1edient
scrVunt.-J. Walton
Eight of MIR. Edwin a Abbey's drawings are
u appear IN the February Harper" They are
il Illustration of GOidSmith'S Deserted Vii
laGc.' y critical article by Austin Dubson will
ao company them.
tain a study of the automohilist's sensations
written by Maurice Maeterlinck
The American lady who signs herself octave
Thanet' is a little weak in her geographv She
Is quoted as saying that, wanting Il pSeudonvma
she saw the word "Thanet" chalked ON . r,iI
read truck, and at once accepted il as suitabIe.
anyhow, | adopted il on the spot becauss II
might might he Scotch Ghere is. believe, an Isle of
ThaneD. or it might he French" Let her hunt
up the map of England and turn to the County
of Kent the land of the cherry There she viii
lind her Ihanet at its eastern EXTREMITY for il
Is neither Scotch nor French
The latest Outgiving of Mr. HcnIeS On tho
subject of Mr.. Stevenson is this: Last week
MI GREENWOOD asked me a question:. tid the
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29
ANIMAL STORIES.
"REMINISCENCES OF JUMBO AND OTHERS

LADY LEE. AND OTHER ANIMAL STORIES
HermOn Lee Ensign illustrated IN fhot0-
gravure from Original Drawings Dy Max r.
Keeper j. Carter Beard Jay HanoiuSe anu
Will H. Drake. octave, pp XXI, 100. OhlCdSO-
a. G. McClurg & Co
loved animals in a personal way To him they
were just so many good friends. whom he I'M
derstood and who understood and appreciated
him. In Lady Lee and Other Animal Stories
which were exceedingly diverse and so catholic
in their range to include everything between
Jumbo and Union Square jim. the theatre
kitten. Lady Lee a beautiful mare, and her
sister, BLACK Beauty" Lady Lee has been
fortunate in her biographer. and the nobility of
her character. for such Mr.. Ensign evidently
considered it, loses nothing in the telling. 1t is
odd that no adequate bographer of Jumbo"
the big elephant. has heretofore been found
But Mr.. Ensign has supplied the lack pretty
thoroughly. The patience of the huge and pow
erfuI beast through all dscOmfOTts is yividly
death. Mr.. Ensign it. gives an impress
sion of sublimity and courage tit TO rank with
any tale of death for duty that occurs TO us at
this moment. The book is beautifully made. and
pictures in phOtogravure by such artists
Max +. Klepper. ]. Carter Beard. Jay HAM
bidge and others.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29
SOLGS CTH NOLl.
BY y. J MUNBY

b1 y. j. MI tNBG
You cannot tell how good she is.
How gracious and how fair.
BY merely looking on her face
And all the beauty there
You know not how her lips would speak
TO others or to you:
You only know that all she says
Is certain To be true.
And if she grant you through her eyes
A peep into her soul,
'Tis but a slight and partial glimpse;
You never see the whole.
No. you must win her constant heart,
And keep il in your own,
Ere you can learn that what she is
She is for one alone.
And that, my friends, you will not do:
Providence divine
Has found and fashioned her for me,
And she is wholly mine.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29

late r. l.. S. q cannot with the shrieks OF the
Randar Log still Shrilling to the Empyrean,
dare not be more PARTICULAR look as eltish in
life as he looks in his portraits? There can be
but one answer: He did not In the photo
eraDhs we have of him there is nothing perforce
of the briIIiancy, the color. the mobility. the
impudence Ctis the sole word which his feat
IRE NNn
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29

pping them in the spirit of the time from which
she has taken them. In her descriptions OF
scenes she seems to be blending fiction win
fact and a few illustrations reproduced from
photographs help still further to strengthen the
verisinliIitude of her work. readable book II
is. with an individual quality and with local
color that is unusually well handled.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29

Three books on the recent tour of the Prince
and Princess of Wales are to be published by
correspondents who went round the colonies
with them. Sir Donald MackenSie Wallace is to
write the official account. Three hundred years
hence this will be good material perhaps, for
the historian.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29

A memoir of Kate Greenaway is in prepara-
tion by Mr.. M II. Spelmann, and meanwhile a
public memorial is to be raised to her in Lon
don. There is also talk of memorial in the
gardens of the Luxembourg in Paris Her
quaint and pretty drawings were heartily ap-
preciated in that city.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29

thing better: I will read them to you JoWets
preparing to go off for his days work. repHeu
hastily: "Oh, no. thank you, Tennyson' We en-, iiU
time for that sort of thing just now. l am very
busy
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. John James Piatt is bringing out a new
and revised edition of his interesting volume
The Hesperian Tree: y Souvenir Of the Ohio
Valley"
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29

Mr. Dooley intends to put on paper ms nm
pressions of the typical inhabitant of our chief
cities Washington. New-YOrk. Boston, chicago
Philadelphia. Much fun and some notapie
truths will no doubt enliven these articles 1heS
are to appear in "McClures Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29

Dean Stubbs. of Ely, is one English ecclesi-
astic of high rank who does not like Chicago
He says in his just published book. In a
Minister Garden" that Chicago is the most
hatefully unlOvely city he ever in He
adds that it is "a clanking wilderness of endless
streets, monOtonouS, unpiCturcSque untidy.
dirty, foul" He tells a story (heard before in
somewhat different form which goes to prove
that the big Western city has way of digesting
all VINO go to live there. Archdeacon Ruston
a Yorkshreman by birth. He had married
a Canadian, but he had been settled for some
time in Chicago. His children, he told me-
born in that city. one day lately his
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29

1t is pleasant to record the fact that the
London librarians experience shows that the
best books alone command a continuous success
sion of readers. The popular novels nave a
hasty success then fall absolutely dead, never
to be revived. The Battersea librarian says:
While it is true that The Eternal City Is
most in demand at present, there can be no
doubt that this popularity is merely LOT the
moment and represents only the requirements of
a class of readers which is both uncritical and
tickle, rarely exercising a conscious preference,
and content with obtaining the best advertised
article of the day
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29

Mr.. G. X. ChestertOn, who is writing a biog-
raphy Of Browning. is a spriShtly young man
who has lately Joined the ranks of crltlcal
writer's in London, and who falling into the
popular weakness of taking himself too serious
ly is hitting wild" He begins a recent book
notice thus: America and the American spirit
in literature present what would be very gener-
ally regarded something like a contradiction
in terms-the widespread union between shrewd-
ness and Enthusiastically, between a shameless
materialism and a more shameless spirit
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29

The latest outgiving of Mr. HenIeS on the
subject OF Mr. stevenson is this: 'Iast week
Mr.. Greenwood asked me a question: tlid the
The age-herald., 1901-08-13
FINANCIAL.
5-9-6m-tbu-sun-tu.

sidered fair New York. however, opened at 2 points advance to 2 points decline and then sold off to points under the influence of weather reports from nearly all portions of the belt, showing splendid rains. Texas got only two or three sprln- kles, though the forecast indicated that the showery conditions prevalent in Okla homa would move down into Texas. Moreover, crop reports were encouraging, and this aided the selling movement. Af- ter the end of the first hour there was some slight recovery on covering by shorts. who were disposed to be cautious over the situation In Texas. The close was to 8 points decline
 The New York Herald was out today with an estimate of the largest cotton crop on record. This was regarded as rather extreme In view of the lateness of the crop and the lowness of the condition at the moment, though there is little doubt that there will be plenty of cotton to meet the requirements of the spinners of the world, especially since the visible supply figures will be nearly million bales in excess of the surplus at this date last year. when the season draws to a close It will take very serious conditions in Texas to offset the improvements in other portions of the belt, and 1t will not be wise to base all calculations on condt- tions in that State. Until the develop ments are more pronounced, however, the market offers little more than scalping opportunities.
The age-herald., 1901-08-13
New York Cotton Futures. Rv Private Wire to H. D. Cothran & Go.
Murnhx 6. Co.'S stock Letter.

New York. August 12-This mornings stock market opened active and for the most part materially lower, particularly of the Western railway stocks most d1- rectly affected by the agricultural situas ton set forth in the governments crop report. published Saturday afternoon. As might be expected the Atchison shares the Wabash issues and Union Pacific were the most seriously depressed by req son of the extent of damage to the corn crop as set forth in the statistics of the Department of Agriculture.
 The remainder of the railway list, how ever, was only fractionally affected. St. Paul was decidedly strong and Pennsyl- vania recovered rapidly from a rather sharp decline Illinois Central was also firm and Southern Pacific was steady. Outside of the railway list the conspicu- ous features of early dealings were the United States Steel issues. These opened at sharp advance for both the common and preferred on this mornings intelli- gence that operatives of the Illinois Steel mill at Chicago had by majority refused to obey the strike order issued last We'd nesday by the president of the AmaIga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers.
 The advance in the preferred stock ap- proximated 2 per cent and the common was comparatively as firm. There seemed u pc very ntle lUHueHCe ekeTteu upon the general market, however by reason of the more encouraging news from the steel strike situation. interest centering largely around the governments crop re- port Tn addition to the Western dis patches set forth that since the compila- ton of the governments figures further extensive damage had been inflicted upon the growing crop, estimates running as high as 300, 900 900 bushels. The London market for Americans were reported weak, but the declines were nearly all within fractional limits and upon the opening of business here the operations for foreign account were In exceedingly limited volume. Nothing of special inter- est not related to the agricultural situa- tion or to the labor troubles developed over Sunday.
 The trading after the opening fell away materially In respect to activity but a rather firm undertone prevailed.
The age-herald., 1901-08-13
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

The following real estate transfers have been placed on record in the office of the probate judge:
 E. G. Taylor to G. A. and F. L. schii- finger $c.000.
 H. D. Smith to M c. Clancey, s1c5o C. c. Woods and husband to J. D. Lanier. $25oo
 J. U. Hardman, ct. al. to Hardman Christopher Brick Company st.
 W. T. Simmons, ct al.. to Mrs. M. J. Graham, s5oc.
 A. R. Williams and husband to E. F. o'Byrne. s51oc.
 J. A. Hall and wife to B. Kirkley and wife. $i00.
 A. Hagood and husband to D. McTier. s1Os.
 Pratt Land and Improvement Company to Henry Ellis s2550. m W. A. Walker and wife to J. M. Gill lespy, $10,000.
 s. L. Hill from Birmingham Building and Loan Association, 5000.
 Jefferson County Building and Loan Association to Thomas Cunningham, $90s.
 J. M. Gillespy and wife to John M. Webb, s425o.
The age-herald., 1901-08-13
SHARP DECLINES
 IN SOME STOCKS The Government Crop Report Had Depressing Effect SUGAR l MUCH TO FRONT Trading Was semi-stagnant Until Near the Close, When Prices Were
 Lifted to Saturdays Close.
 Bonds We're Quiet.
SUGAR i MUCH TO FRONT

New York, August 12-The government prop report had depressing effect In railroad stocks at the opening and some sharp declines were made particularly in Rock Island, Mo. Pacific. Union Pacific and Atchison. The selling continued pret- ty general throughout the first hours the holders offering stocks down more con- fident1y when grain prices rose strongly. Trading then lapsed into semi-stagnatlon but fluctuations were unimportant until near the close when shorts lifted the mar ket substantially above Saturdays clos ings prices This movement was not suf- fciently explained but there was vague report current that the steel stike was settled. Large dealings were made in the United States steel stocks at the mon being S0000 shares at from AZ 4211 The being 5000 shares at from 42 to 4219. The fact that the strike order was not obey ed in some districts aroused better feel ing toward the stock and 1t was in pret- ty fair demand throughout the day Final prices for the common and preferred were the best and indicated net gains re- ,spectively of IFS to 2 points Free selling of sugar attracted some attention the pric dropping points. A report was circulate ed that the president of the company was seriously i'll and professionals were also inclined to put out short lines on the strength of the forthcoming opposi- ton plant. The stock recovered points when the illness of MT. Havemeyer was denied. Peoples gas showed noa trace or its recent liquidation and moved strong ly upward sending that stock 2b higher. Western Union was unusually prominent in the late dealings and improved ma terially. The late upward movement in the railroad list carried number Of stocks up from 1 to 2h above the early low prices with the improvement most pronounced in Mo. Pacific, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, St. Paul and Atchison4 The closing was fairly active and strong.
 The bond market was quite today and but few changes of importance were made.
 Total sales par value $1,015.0O0, United States bonds were all unchanged on the last call.
 New York Stock Market.
 By Private Wire to Murphy & Co.