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PRnPOS AIS.

| PROPOSALS - SEALED PROPO
sails will be received by the Trustees
of the Poor of New Castle County until
10 O'Clock a. m, Wednesday, October so.
1901, for supplying New Castle county
Hospital from October 80, 1901, to the last
Wednesday in January, 1902, with beef,
mutton, bread, groceries, dry goods,
shoes, tobacco, carpet, slippers, drugs and
medicines. Bidders on shoes, slippers
and tobacco will be required to furnish
samples. Bids for beef will be by the
quarter in proportion of one hind-quarter
to three fore-quarters, out of cattle well
fatted and dressing not less than 500
pounds. Bids for mutton will be on fore
quarters of eight ribs only. Bids FOE
groceries dry goods and drugs will be on
the various kinds named on the schedule
and must be of the best quality. Bids
will also be received for supplying the
hospital with creamery butter, delivered
in such quantities as the superintendent
may direct. All bids to be directed TO
the Trustees of the Poor. No bid will be
received unless in accordance with the
above. Trustees reserve the right to re
ject any or all bids.
DAVID MCCOY, Superintendent.
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prachmann. the Poet. Very III.

Copenhagen, Oct. 29.-Drachmann,
the poet, is dangerously i'll and has
been obliged to abandon his projected
visit to the United States this winter
He is staying at Hamlet's castle at
Elsinore and has been forbidden to
work.
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In Communication with Brigands.

Washington. Oct. 29.-The state de
partment has been advised by its agents
in Constantinople and Sofia that com
munication has been established will
Miss Stone. No details are furnished.
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LOST.

LOST--On Thursday morning a sum
of money in paper bag between Van
Buren, and DUPONT, Front and Sixth 10
Market street, $40 reward II returned to
The Sun office.
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Eire Mt os,xego. N. Y,

Oswego, n. Y, Oct. 29.-Colnon's
paint store has been entirely destroy,
ed by fire. Other buildings were bad
ly damaged; loss, $4,000; fully In
ssrsuca
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-10-30
ASTHMA CURE FREE!

Asthmalene Brings Instant Relief and Permanent
Cure in all Cases
SENT ABSOLUTELY FREE ON RECEIPT OF POSTAL.
Write yaur and address plainly.
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The Westward Movement.

Referring to the beginning of the
westward movement on May 2G, Cap
tain Lemly called Admiral Schley's at
tention to the fact that he admiral
Schley) had said in his testimony in
chief that as soon as the sea had calm
ed down he had begun to coal, consid-
ering himself better able to judge than
any other officer. Captain Lemly then
had the witness examine the log of the
Brooklyn for the purpose of bringing
out the fact that during the day of the
9th the barometer was rising, the
breeze dying down and the sea becom-
ing calmer.
Notwithstanding these improved con-
ditions, did YOU not steam twenty-three
miles to the westward that day before
attempting to coall''
After looking at the log the admiral
said that according to that memoran-
DUN he had steamed eighteen miles.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-10-30

WANTED Energetic workers 10 dis.
tribute circulars and samples; permanent
occupation; good pay. Distributes
League. 40 West 2Sth ST., New York.
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erward captured and condemned as a

erward captured and condemned as q
prizer'
Il do not know whether 1t was the
same vessel or not. never saw her
afterward. There certainly was moth.
Ing to me in the examination Of her
that indicated that she was a suspi-
cious ship. She>was duly certified by
our state department to enter the port
of Cienfuegos."
did you say in one of your commu.
nications of May 81 to the department
that the weather was boisterous since
leaving Key West?"
styos -
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-10-30

Fine premiums given away to agen
selling our celebrated face preparation
"Glycerine Pearl" Sample bottle fifty
cents. Premium catalogue free.
The Floyd Drug & Chemical Co.,
ShelDyville, Ind.
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w ANTED.

WANTED-Address in lots from
| 900 to 100000. Lists furnished. Quick
service. Box 445, City.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-01-03

larger than the others. was 70 be LETT
at that point Of the route that should be
nearest to the geographical pole that
could be reached by the balloon.
The explorer also took with him fnlr-
ty-two carrier pigeons. Some were ex-
pected to return to Danes Island,
where they had stayed for more than
month, but it was feared they would
never return to Sweden, as from Spitz-
bergen alone they would have had to
travel a distance Of nearly $500 k1lo-
meters in order to find their dove cote
From the pole to Sweden would be
$500 meters. Such a distance has, as
far as is known, never been traverse0
by carrier pigeons. After these means
Of conveying messages had been ex-
hausted Andree would naturally have
recourse to the familiar method OF IN
closure in bottles.
Three days after starting seal hunt
er to the west Of Phipps Island, north
Of Spitzbergen, killed carrier pigeon
which had come from Andree's balloon.
From the pigeon this message was
taken:
July 13. 1890 o'clock noon, latitude
50 degrees minutes, longitude Is de-
grees 5 minutes east.-Good speed to-
ward the east; ten degrees TO south.
All well on board. This is the third
pigeon that we have sent out.
ANDREE.
This dispatch indicated that the bal
loon had only travelled fifth OF the
distance separating Spitzbergen from
the pole, and that it was no longer go
ing toward the north, but toward the
east.
About July % Of that year it was
learned from the captain of vessel
that one Of the crew had shot pigeon
between North Cape and Seven Islands,
on the north coast Of Lapland, bearing
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-01-03
ANDREEN MOVIE IVENUP
SWEDISH AERoNAUT THOUGHT
TO HAVE Persisted.
Daring Explorer Yields Life i'm Search
Of PARKWAY Arctic Po1e-There To
No News of the Missing Man During
the Past Four Years.

It is now nearly four years since S. A.
Andree, the Swedish aeronaut, in his
balloon rose in air on Amsterdam Isl
and and confidently set out for the
north pole. To him was attracted at
once the hopeful and the anxious notice
Of both the scientific and the unscien-
tif1c in every country. It was the most
wonderfully daring attempt ever con-
ceived Of in aeronautics and it abso-
lutely eclipsed all previous enterprises
conducted in ships and looking to the
discovery of the north pole.
Mr.. Andree had been known as anaer
onaut for twenty years, but he was
something more than that. He was
theoretical mechanic, whose theories
were believed to be more sound than
any other mans in Sweden. He was
indeed more than a theorist-he had
accurate knowledge of the practical
arts and inventions Of his time. So
well were his knowledge and abilities
known that the Swedish government
appointed him chief engineer Of the
patent Office. These facts, being gen.
orally in possession of the world public,
strongly predisposed a large part OF
that public to believe that he would be
successful in his surprising aeronautic
undertaking. Nor was the idea Of cross
ing to the pole in 9 balloon new one.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-01-03
and studied the design for the balloon
that was not huilt

and studied the design for the balloon
that was not built
Proudly and majestically the balloon
rose and Andree gazed with happy con-
fidence on those who remained behind,
and then he and his comrades. waving
their caps. he cried out, Greetings at
home to Sweden"
To Communicate with the World.
Andree, when he started on his bal
l2on voyage ON July IL, 1897, took with
Aim twelve dispatch buoys each con-
tanning a sphere of cork twenty cent?
meters in diameter, coated with thick
coat of paint, partly blue and partly
yellow. At the upper portion was a
copper stopper inscribed with the
words, "Andree's Polar Expedition,
1885, and a number. This stopper
closed cavity cut in the cork, to re-
ceive tube in which documents or
messages from the explorers were to
he inclosed. The buoys were to be
thrown out at different points of the
voyage Of the balloon. a thirteenth.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-01-03
a message addressed to the Aftenbla-
Diet, Stockholm. It read:

message addressed to the Aftenbla-
Diet, Stockholm. 1t read:
Eighty-two degrees passed. Good
journey. Northward. ANDREE.
From Kasnovarsk, whence dispatch
stated that on Sept. IA at II o'clock at
night, people in the village Of Antzi-
flroWskoje. in the district of Yeneseisk.
saw the Andree balloon for five min
utes.
1t is certain that Mr. Andree did not
take sufficiently into account all the
meteorological conditions. But at least
four learned professors did take them
into view on their comments at the
time on Mr. Andree's daring venture
Professor Bezold held that as the winds
at the pole cross one another a direct
passage could not be hoped for. He
argued that the distance the aeronaut
must travel would be extended from
$40 k1lometers (the distance in di-
rect line from Spitzbergen across the
polar region) to from $4,000 to 10000
kilometers, and that the balloon could
not possibly keep af1oat long enough for
that. But should this not prove true.
the professor continued, he thought it
very possible that Andree might sail
over the polar regions without knowing
1t, since It is precisely in that part
where the usual methods Of navigation
are likely to be faulty and difficulty
would be experienced in determining
ones whereabouts. These difficulties.
he pointed out. consist not In the alb
sence of the means OF help afforded BY
the stars, but also in the fact that the
midnight sun, even If it be not yelled
Tor hours and days in mist, alters its
altitude SO little that the exact moment
Of noon, so important for taking obser
yations, cannot be determined. The
rapid changes of longitude, moreover.
which the balloon must make world
render the operation of observation nd
ditionally difficult Even should An
dree succeed in crossing the pole. an
extraordinary concentration of favor
able circumstances would, in Professor
Berson's opinion, be necessary to rem
der safe landing possible.
Professor Neumayer, or the ADMIRAL
tt Office, did not agree with those who
regarded Andree's venture as d nure
act Of suicide, but he emphasized the
impossibility Of prognosticating In any
degree the direction the balloon
would follow. Though not denvinr
that the voyage might be scientifically
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-01-03
ODD USES OF INDIAN CORN.

Many Foods We're Made of 1t at tn e
Paris Exposition.
At the Paris Exposition there was A
little showcase wherein were displayed
the more important Indian corn prod
ucts of this country. They made an
amazing display, including the follow
ing articles:
Cornmeal, hominy, hulled corn,
cream of maize, granulated cornmeal,
canned green corn, canned hulled corn,
maizena,, samp, degerminated samp,
cream meal, self-rising pancake -four,
quick malt, brewers grits, husks for
mattresses, celluose for packing the cof-
fer dams of battle-ships, paper stock
prepared from cornstalk, degerrninated
brewers meal, bourbon whisky, alco-
hol, bolted cornmeal, hulled cornmeal,
feed Of ground blades, stalks and cobs,
varnish, cob pipes, corn lager beer, ia
bic syrup, popcorn, table grits, British
gum, salves, laundry starch, table
starch, frumentum, faxed hominy, gum
paste, corn oil, vulcanized corn oil, oil
cake, grape sugar, gluten feed, glucose,
confectioners' crystal, glucose and con-
PETITIONERS paste. Corn oil vulcanized
forms the basis of substitute for rub
Der.
This substitute, compounded with so
per cent commercial rubber, is used in
rubber boots, linoleum, wheel tires.
blankets and other articles. Crude corn
OIL has been used in the manufacture Of
toilet soap. Rectified it is as clear as
alcohol and is the base Of substitute
for olive oil. Cornstalk pith is of value
IN making paper, varnish, films, imita-
ton silks and guncotton and other ex-
plosives,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-01-03
The Catch About It.

The business of fire insurance seems
to have been a good deal of mystery
to the middie-aged Englishwoman who,
according to the Leeds Mercury, called
at an agents Office and said that she
wished to insure her house.
"For how much?" asked the agent.
ooh, for about $780,"
every we'll I'll come up and inves-
tigate it."
81 don't know much about insur-
ance," she said.
"It's very simple, ma'am."
"If I'm insured for 600 and the
house is burned down, get the mon
ey, do ~
Certainly"
"And they don't ask who set it afire ~
ooh, but they do. We shall want to
know all about f"
'sThen you needn't come up" she
said, as she rose to go. Il heard there
was some catch about it somewhere,
and now / see where it Isl
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-01-03

It was Of French origin and first con-
ceived by Sivel, who in 1873 laid his
project before the French Society of
Aerial Navigation. But Sive1 lost his
life soon afterward in the accident to
the balloon Zenith. The project lay in
allegiance until 1890, when it was taken
up again by two Parisians-Hermite
and Besancon-who submitted a plan
that was carefully and scientifically
thought out to the minutest detail, but
the means could not be raised to carry
the plan into even experimental effect.
Mr.. Andree, however, carefully exam
ined it and compared his own with 1t
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-01-03
His Masters Sober Request.

The policeman had given his testi-
mony, which was unqualifiedly to the
fact Of the old gentleman's intoxication.
Then the old servant was called to the
witness box. There was a mingled ex-
preston of indignation and determine
ton on his countenance. He testified
fatty, to the surprise of the court, that
the old man was sober when he came
home. The magistrate proceeded to
question the witness:
"You say that Mr.. - was sober
when he came homer
Eyes, sir"
did he get to bed alone?'
mo, SIR
did you put him to bed?''
Eyes, SIR
"And he was perfectly sober?"
Eyes, sir"
"What did he say when you put him
to bed?"
HE said, Good night"
Anything else?'
"Yes, SIR
What was it? Tell us exactly what
he said, every word"
HE said as how l was to wake him
and call him early, for he was to be the
queen Of the May"
The old man was fined.-The King.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-01-03

news came. A month elapsed and still
no news of him out Of which anything
much could be made Then Andrees
friends and the scientists and the pub
lie began to feel great anxiety. Six
weeks elapsed and as nothing was
heard of the aeronaut that could be
credited, an expedition was sent out by
the Swedish Geographical and An
thropological Society in search OF An
dree. This expedition reached the
neighborhood of the Lena delta, where
most perilous portion of the journey
lay before them. There they built a
boat and in the necessarily frail craft
crossed the open sea to the mouth of
the Olenck and thence proceeded to the
new Siberian Islands, where, it was be-
lieved, traces Of the Andree expedition
might be found. But no traces were
found and the searchers made their
way back to Sweden as best they could.
Since then the search has in various
ways been continued but all without
avail.
Imagined or faxed reports Of An
have from time to time been sent over
the world, whose effect has been to
keep alive in many people the hope that
he may yet be found alive. But the
opinion Of the most is that he was lost
but few hours or possibly days after
his floating away from the sight Of his
friends, and yet if such were the fact
it would seem strange that some indis-
putable evidence was not long ago dis
covered. But it is not so strange that
no evidence of the disaster has been
discovered, as would be Andree's sur
..ss~ai after all these years in the polar
region. And now again men Of science
and meteorological observation are GO
ing over the known facts and so long
after the almost certain catastrophe are
able satisfactorily to themselves to es-
tablish that Andree was ignorant or
disregardful of meteorological condi-
lions and that he was more foolhardy
than any of his predecessors had been.
And this appears to be true enough
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-01-03

A Chicago doctor who wants to pose
as a health faddist says that exercise
lis Instrumentation men past middle life.'
This is really wonderful discovery
IL true. Exercise is merely the use of
the muscular system. Whatever bene
fetal effects 1t has consist in the stim-
nlation of the circulation of the blood
and the consequent consumption of
waste and renewal Of tissue in the
muscles and organs. 1t also, If it be
of the proper kind, keeps the muscles
flexible and the joints in good condi-
ton. If man past middle life ought
not to exercise he ought not to use his
muscles. Nor ought he to think, be-
cause thinking exercises his brain, and
that might be detrimental; in fact, he
ought not to breathe, for that is exer-
cising his lungs, and he ought to give
all his organs a complete rest. If our
Chicago man is right the man past
middle age ought not to liye-it may be
detrimental. The mummy seems to be
the ideal -past-middle-l life, accord
ing to the no-exercise-past-mid
faddist.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-01-03
made a mistake. He admits It Nearly
every other man who has tried this
particular brand of philanthropy can
consistently say, II told you So"

Not long ago we had rainy Satur-
day." much to the grief of all those
retail merchants whose trade comes
largely from the families of wage earn
ers and salaried men,. 1t is a peculiar
fact. which every merchant has no
ticed, that when disagreeable weather
ruins the trade of one Saturday, the av-
erage trade Of the month will not make
up the loss. The hole thus made In his
profits is never filed up, and there has
been much speculation as to why this is
true, especially in such lines Of trade as
shoes and ready-made clothing, among
the commonest neceSsaries of Life. The
real explanation lies in the fact that
very large percentage of the purchases
Of the American people are in excess
Of their actual necessities. The aver
age American has more than one suit OF
clothing and more than one pair Of
shoes. When an intended purchase Is
passed over on account of bad weather
or some other accident, the chances are
that some other article-a luxury per-
haps-wlll absorb the money before an
other opportunity for making the pur-
chase turns up. 1t may further be said.
with truth, that very large percentage
of the purchases-eveno Of those of peo-
pie of very small means are made on
the impulse of the moment or Of the
hour. The purchaser sees something
and buys It, The need for it may have
been more or less felt, but in all prob
ability it was not pressing, and he
might not have thought again of buy
ing it had he not seen 1t. This impul-
siveness is peculiarly true Of the pur-
chases made by wonderland they are
the ones that do the great bulk Of the
retail buying. The American people
are already the most luxurious the
world has known, and If there shall be
no great check to our national accumu-
! lation Of wealth, there is no predicting
| to what lengths the love of luxury may
go. In our travel we crowd the palace
cars and are willing to pay any kind
of prices, but insist that every luxury
that can be conceived by the ingenuity
Of man shall be at our command. The
maritime world knows nothing to equal
the luxurious appointments of the At
lantic liner, and it is made to meet the
American, not the European. demand.
Our hotels surpass anything the world
has known in the rappings and con-
veniences Of luXury-and in prices.
People pay the prices without muir
mur but if they cannot have hot baths
and velvet carpets, their objections are
loud and long. Men find it profitable to
erect enormous carayansaries in out-of-
| the way places and fit them up as no
royal palace abroad is fitted, and keep
them open but few months in the
year, because Americans will pay the
dizziest prices for few weeks of rest"
| in them From bottom to top and back
| again, the extravaganza of Americans
as a people is the wonder of the world.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-01-03

New York-During the last waal j,
have been made by both the Comn,,.s
of the Currency and the State sms4
Of Public Accounts for reports ~
conditions of the banks under tboi,
spective jurisdictions. These are tba,
official reports Of the year, and COW
study of them discloses some iptarsss.
facts bearing on the general business !
uation. Changes in the totals NJ =
principal items are comparatively sns
and standing by themselves norss
would have little significance. But an \
alysis of the statements shows ths,
the matter of deposits there has haa
movement that does not appear ON i
surface. 1t will be found that in tbo
tive, or commercial accounts, there i,
been a material reduction, while IN 4
savings accounts there has been moi
ed increase. The condition of the sav%.E
banks is regarded by many student,
economics as pretty correct index
the general situation. The growth Of ~
ings deposits means larger employmu
of labor, which in itself is concuSs
proof th.t general conditions are satisM
tory from a business point of view
Chicago-At the close of FRIDAYS vi
sion prices of the various commOaiS.
speculatively dealt in on the Board
Trade did not differ much from tNmE
prevailing at the end of the prevDs
week. An apathetic feeling pervadedsa
entire list, and complaints of dull ts
were universal, not excepting even Al
business in corn, although that cOmnd
ity approached nearer to an appearal
of normal activity than any of the ID
ers. Reasons for the dizziness in specd
ton on the Board of Trade are yarcv
and not the least Of them is the great
but superficial attractiveness Of the N
York Stock Exchange, where FORUM
are being made and lost daily, and Whl
the losers are dumb and gamers talk
their success and bring forth imtatOH
the hundreds. In comparison with stOa
what attraction can such a market
wheat, for instance, have for anyone
does NOT make of it his daily occupatu
May wheat, in which the bulk Of
trading is at present being done, had
range for the week Of IL cents bush
and whereas its value at the close Of
previous week was 1914 cents its N
at the close of the market Frida!
1875 cents. Narrow, however, as aNa
fluctuations at present in the grain n
kets, there. would unquestionaby
much more speculative business in h
if the quotations had more prompt q
wider dissemination. The grain un
as a field for speculation has the gu
advantage over the stock market Of
ing an open book that anyone can N
who chooses to devote to it the ned
sary study. In addition it cannot
controlled or manipulated to any mate
extent by cliques or lotteries of lnaS
having, as in stocks, monopoly Of
information necessary to an intells
appreciation of the situation, no sucA
elusive intelligence of conditions afs
ing grain markets being possible.