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Evening journal., 1902-01-20

There appears to be trouble in the
office of the Wilmington Addicks or
gan, the sun. Some time ago, because
their wages were allowed to get behind
for three weeks, the city editor, the re-
porters and some OF the printers united
in letter calling the attention of the
gas magnate to the fact, and request
ing that the deficiency be made up.
Whilst to other persons there seems
nothing very offensive in their conduct,
considering that the laborer is worthy
of his hire, and the employer is suffi-
ciently possessed of this worlds goods
to pay his debts as they accumulate
IL is a fact that the owner Of the pa
per became very indignant. and stated
to the editor that he acted in a very un-
dignifed manner in signing the letter
with the printers This occurred in
November Last week Mr.. Addicks
asked for the resignation of the city
editor ON account of the letter-Dela-
ware Democrat
Evening journal., 1902-01-20
Subllmity

The fiddler iddled little while.
Compelling the Iigid strings
To wall in weird and mOunful
style
AS living and tortured things
And the kudies gazed ON the sweep of
his hair.
And listened with bated breath
And then they rose and rushed on him
there,
And kissed the poor devil to death.
Chicago Record Herald.
Evening journal., 1902-01-20

Carrie Nation. chief OF the hatohet
crusade has lost toe. This would
not be worthy of paragraph were it
not for the fact that her sacrifice was
in a noble cause. While handling a
hatchet sent to her by an admirer, the
instrument fell severing a toe. She
should draw pension for honorable
service and for suffering physical in
Jury in the service Of reform.
Evening journal., 1902-01-20

A Pennsville IN. J) man Announces
that he is going to fly over to Salem
some time soon. Why not fly across TO
Wilmington? True, the water OF the
Delaware is wet but THAT does not
matter TO one who sails on the wings
OF the wind.
Evening journal., 1902-01-20
NUGGETS OF NEWS

Fire in the Globe yarn mills at FAN
River, Mass, damaged the plant to
the extent of 100000.
Ohio Masons of the Scottish Rite
will celebrate the 5Oth anniversary
of the order next month.
Town Treasurer Albert Jennings
OF Wellesley. Mass admits shortage
of S25.000, procured by forgery.
Memorial services commemorative
the birthday OF General Robert E
Lee were held throughout the south
yesterday.
Mrs. Albert ]. Yeager OF Allentown
Pa. who was injured in the trolley ac'
cident at foot of Lehigh Mountain
four weeks ago, died yesterday.
Evening journal., 1902-01-20

man picked up the stub of the match
when it had been thrown away and
put it on the mantel shelf at home
Such is fame.
Mr.. and Mrs. John d. Rockefeller,
Jr.. are both instructors in the Sunday
School of the Fifth Avenue Baptist
Church. New York City. Mr.. Rookie
feller is the leader of the Bible class,
and Mrs. Rockefeller has a class of
little boys.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell is said to be
the only actress whom the present
Queen has received on intimate terms.
While Mrs. Campbell was said to have
been held in high regard by Queen
Victoria. the once popular and bril-
liant Marie Wilton. wife of Sir Squire
Bancroft. was the only actress who
Vas honored by her acquaintance
Evening journal., 1902-01-20

General James II. Wilson is a repre-
sentative Delawarean. and his seleo-
tion as a member of the special enl-
bassy which will represent this coun-
try at the coronation of King Edward
of England. is an honor richly de-
served and well bestowed. Dover Del
awarean.
Evening journal., 1902-01-20

Charles Emory Smith dropped his
duties ais postmaster-general one day,
and was back at the Press the next
writing editorials Our great con-
temporary is to be congratulated.
Evening journal., 1902-01-20

w'Eere two members Of tho Levy Court
have been committed TO the workhouse
Ter plundering the county, and more
are likely to follow. The healthier
moral condition in politics was clearly
demonstrated IN the recent municipal
election. and we are receiving a daily
exhibition Of il at the White House.
Corruption and malfeasance in office
are the natural result of the degrading
condition of our politics. The manage
ment OF political parties which builds
their success on corrupt means and
corrupt men are bound TO reward The
iattor with offices of trust, and oorrupt
men IN Office will never consider a pub
NO Office public trust Let the good
work go on, but the Republican party
dare not stand in the way. Let us as
sumo a position that will aid. assist
and Increase civic virtue. Let us prove
ourselves worthy champions of the
right and worthy to be trusted with
the administration of public affairs. be
they national, State, county or mu-
Republican.
Evening journal., 1902-01-20

IL would seem as If the stilted elo
cubion of the classroom had no place
IN modern scientific pedagogy. and that
II Is within the province of progressive
educators to substitute for it system
which, encourages consecutive thinking
and natural utterance. The boy who
can be encouraged to overcome self
consciousness and say what he thinks
on any subject, as well as he would say
IL to hds companions and with the same
spontaneous emphasis of gesture and
injection, viii have been greatly as
sisted to success In life. To hold be-
fore him an absurd and unattainable
standard Of artihciality as representing
torcible and eloquent speech. is to
make him self-distrustful, and do all
That can be done by instruction 10 spoil
him for public speaking Castle
News.
Evening journal., 1902-01-20

Mrs. Daniel Lentz, Of Newport, is
visiting relatives in the city.
Evening journal., 1902-01-20

entered az the Wilmington postofhce as
second-class matter.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-23
PARIS STREET cAR SYSTEM
Three Lines Which End Under the
Grand Opers House.

- ans - 80 G fi~--E
Few Psrisisns much less foreign visi-
tors, have any idea Of the engineering
works necesslrated by the Metropolitan
Railway. They simply notice that some Of
the most freQuente5 rogtes through Paris
are dottsd with wooden enclosures. witch
Increase The difficulties and dangers ~
pedestrians II city already perilous
from It's trans. cycles and motor-ears
Yet some Of these operations are ex-
tremsly interesting. The original Inc. in
deed. presented no serious obstacles. 1t
runs through Paris from east 20 vest.
from the Nincennes 10 che Seuilv barrier
and merely required tunnels under the
Fauhorg s.. antoine. the Rue sc Rlrou
the Champs Elysees. ard The Avenue &c
Ia Grande aimee The branches from
the Place Dc Etoite 90 the Troes6ero
snd The Porte Dauphine were also eas-
operations B1t the line from the Pace
IEtoile q the Place &c IA Bas-ue.
section ot which vas recently opened IS
OF a diEere-t character The li1e ha5 K
pass over or under three trunk railways
for Level crossings were OUT ~ this u-as-
tson BY lines by each y which hundreds
% trains daily entered or LETT Paris TIE
NerropoItan IRE accordingly tunnels az
der the Western railway 81 the Boule-
yard des Bausnoiles, 40 yards from s.
Lazarde station. b-t that line is not very
wide. nor = e much oelow ground Not
% with The northern and eastern Iines.
which are both vide ard deep where thav
pass under the boulevard The 3Ietr5n0i-
itsn Therefor energies rrou underground
snd At a ve-y sharp gradient becomes
viaduct passing along The middle ~ TIE
boulevard Il Il very unsishiiy. as have
be piece % e1Gine=rins
stiu more noteworthy IS The work 90
Ing On under the Pace &c lOrera- Three
EtegleS. 50 TO SPEAK. OF always aTe there
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-23

frzze ard ut - eazazres have r.
s.4z-tea a. asr1a arzias. re zsa-scsgai-
~ sw r.. a4owsne ths ersak-1p q e
zenepalT s1- ~sizh hey pay oo-sssrz-
80 sz-Psrss earrzz4-1eaos Lea1a-
Tlnez
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-23

.here VIII - station ssrvsls - tAree
tires, xet aizosE irpe-cePt-eia tron the
surface Jast as TIE Greet Ly1aalls hss
tire. STOKES - vaaits lhe-s Egl be thsee
stories q aaes. zf,h stai- SC arranged
as 70 make iuE-ezs q es-ess easy g.
let speak q projected tine fro-a &1zt-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-23

uarlre 70 NeztpaErssse czfu1E Paris
frcn ae-ta = aa-tA AID taazez-g l-ser
ihe Seu,= oe-ssse MS has ~ get aes-
commenced
ore result q IKE llnss already oYsnea
Is tnzt several oza-o-s a1z trazw4y
Ines AaTe besa Esssa - 11- v2zi q
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-23

beng Constructed. one ilne from AuteuiA
IL ne Opera another erom TIE place ca
DanG1e at TIE northeastern extremity q
from Coarcslles 70 Menilmoztsnt "a
reach or qass this SPOT Which wiz tzsre-
fore BE tie great center Of trsEc. and
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-12-24
A KnaVe Of
Con science
By FRANCIS LYNDE.
Copyright 1900, by Francis Lynde.)
CHAPTER V.-CoNTINUED.

by Jove! but she is a magnificent
iy strong type" he unused, lying fiat
on his back and staring absently at
the fiittering shadows among the
deck beams overhead. "Her face is
as readable as only the face of a
woman instinctively good and pure
In heart can be. Any man who can
put her between the covers of a
book may put anything else he
pleases in it and snap his fingers at
the world. If I am going to live
In the same town with her l ought
to jot her down in words before I
lose the keen edge of the first i'm
preston
He considered it for moment.
and then got up and went in quest of
pencil and scrap of paper. The
doing night clerk gave him both,
with sleepy malediction thrown in;
and he went back to his engine-room
and scrubbed his word-picture by
the light of the swinging lantern,
thus:
"Character-study: Young woman
of the type Western-Creole-no the
daughter of aliens, but born in the
West of parents who have migrated
from one of the older States. G'n
hazard that much as a guess.) De-
tails: Titan blonde, with hair like
spun bronze; the complexion that
neither freckles nor tans; cool, gray
eyes with an under-depth in them
that no man but her lover NAV ever
quite fathom; a figure which would
be statuesque if it were not alto
gether human and womanly; fea-
lures cast in the Puritan mold, with
the lines of character well empha-
sized; lips that would be passionate
but for-no, lips that will be pas
sionate when the hour and the man
arrive. A soul strong in the strength
of purity. which would send her to
the stake for a principle, or to the
Isle of Lepers with her lover. A
typical heroine for a story in which
the hero is a man who might need to
borrow a conscience"
He read it over thoughtfully when
1T was finished, changing a word here
and n phrase there with a crafts
mans fidelity to the exactnesses.
Then he shook his head regretfully
and tore the scrap of paper into tiny
squares, scattering them upon the
brown flood surging past the engine
room gangway.
1T won't do" he confessed, reluc-
family. as one who sacrifices good
literary material to an overweenino
sense OF the fitness of things. Its
nothing less than cold-blooded sac
rilege. 1 can't make copy out of her
If / write no more while the world
stands"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-12-24

the captain what she had discovered:
and she was deferred from so doing
only by the reflection that less ter
rible alternative would be the send
ing of letter to the New Orleans
bank people.
This she determined upon, telling
her aunt nothing of her discovery.
but merely saying that upon second
thought she felt that she must write
TO Mr.. Galbraith at once. Miss Gill
man withdrew her objections re1uc-
family.
IF you must. Charlotte. But it
seems like a very dreadful thing for
you to have to do"
1T is very dreadful" said Char
lotte, with sob in her voice. New
ertheless, she went away quickly to
write the letter which should set the
machinery of the law in motion.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-12-24
English Beef.

The king of Portugal, although en-
tirely against the doctors advice, is
somewhat great meat eater, and
thinks no form of cooking comes up
to that of the English. When stay
ing in England a few years ago he
visited Lord Salisbury's beautiful
seat at Hatfield. During dinner the
conversation naturally turned upon
the royal visit, and the duke of York
now the prince of Wales-who was
present, said to the king: ''Now,
what has impressed your majesty
most during your short stay in Eng
land?"
The king of Portugal replied,
thoughtfully: well, I think the Eng
lish roast beef is very delightful"
'Oh!" laughed his royal highness,
'but surely something else has i'm
pressed your majesty as well?"
"Ahi" Enthusiastically replied the
king, 'of course! The English boiled
beef is also delightful" Chicago
Record-Herald.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-12-24
"DEAR OLD MOTHER AND ME-"

We lived in a cottage, years ago,
cottage down by the sea,
There were only two of us living there,
Just dear old mother and me.
Daddy had gone on his last long cruise,
And Buddie was off at sea,
Sis was married, and so there were left
Just dear old mother and me.
The home was plain, but then it was
home"
And living we got from the sea;
We were happy together, / want you to
know,
Just dear old mother and me.
But, an end must come to sorrow or joy,
And so, like storm on the sea,
A shadow passed over the house where
Just dear old mother and me.
A beautiful boat appeared, one night,
And anchored off shore, at sea;
AT dawned 1t sailed, and carried away
Ny dear old mother from me.
And now. lone watch each night keep,
Looking out toward the sea;
Hoping, some day that boat will return
With dear old mother, for me.
But no, boat 1 must prepare,
For cruise on the Crystal sea,
beautiful trip, to last Away
For dear old mother and me.
William r. Savage, in Sailors Magazine.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-12-24
SHOULD HAVE BEEN RED.
Did Not Correspond, Thought
the Young Lady.

eat least, Miss Ticklowell," said the
young man, pale but firm, and standing be-
tore ner with folded arms, 81 am entitled
to an explanation"
I never supposed, Mr. Howell" she
replled, facing him with equal frmness,
says the Chicago Tribune, you would ask
me to marry you"
That is not an explanation. Leaving
out OF the question the fact that you have
accepted my attentions for a period of q
year or more, which / might plead as ample
justification for my presumption, if you 50
consider it, In proposing marriage to you, I
am wholly at loss to understand the re-
pugnance, amounting almost to horror,
with which you have turned me down. Am
L SO disagreeable, personally, that"
No, 1t is not that" she interrupted. GOV.
erlng her face with her hands. al admire
you as gentleman and esteem you highly
as friend, but can you not SEQ. can
you not see?-why any nearer tie is impos-
No! For the life of me can't!"
Mr.. Hoxwell," she said, with restored
calmness, Il had hoped there would be no.
necessity for this explanation, but I can
never, never marry man with black hair
and SO grotesquely inappropriate q name
as Rufus!"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-12-24
CHAPTER vi.

Charlotte Farnham's friends were
wont to say of her that she was as
sensible as she was beautiful. She
was, as Griswold had guessed. of New
England lineage. Her parents had
migrated for the health of the wife.
but the migration had been post
poned too long. The mother died in
the early Minnesota days, but the
daughter lived to grow up unspoiled
and beautiful.
She had been spending the winter
at Pass Christian with her aunt. who
was an invalid: and for the invalid's
sake the return passage was taken
on the Belle Julie" On the morning
OF the second day out, when the New
Orleans papers came aboard, the two
OF them were sitting in the shade
OF the hurricane deck aft. Charlotte
bought paper and read the account
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-12-24
CHAPTER VIII.

While Griswold was graphing
afresh with the problems of escape
Charlotte was sitting behind the
locked door of her stateroom, try.
ing to write her letter.
She knew it would be hard, but it
proved much harder than she had
feared it would be. Try as she might
she could not eliminate the factor
of personality. Truly, this man was
no more to her than any stranger in
the passing show, an impersonal unit
of class with which society is at
war; and yet, at the end of every
effort, the point of view shifted, and
in the whole world there were but
two persons; man who had sinned.
and woman who was about to make
him pay the penalty.
Nevertheless, conscience was not to
be denied; and after many futile be-
ginnings, the fateful letter got itself
written, and she went out to mail it
at the office. AS it happened, the
Belle Julie" was slowing for a land
lng' and the office was closed. And
since she would by no means entrust
the letter to the outside mail box,
she waited till the clerk should re-
turn.
The doors giving upon the saloon
deck forward were open, and she
stepped out. The crew was grouped
about the uptilted landing-stage. and
ne was there-this man for whose
future she was about to become an.
swerable.
One glimpse of his face, hageard
and woe-begone beyond any imagin-
lngs OF hers. slew her resolve on the
eve of its accomplishment, and she
turned and ran back to the state
room, saying over and over to her.
self as she fed: "Oh, can't! I
can't.-and yet 1 must!"
1t was noon before she opened her
door again at the luncheon call, and
went aft to bring her aunt to the ia
pie. What she had endured in the
interval, none might know; not even
the sympathetic invalid. who more
than once looked askance at the
troubled eyes with their downcast
lids.
AT their end of the table, the talk
rlppled about the bank robbery; and
when Capt. Mayfeld mentioned the
fact of the $4,000 reward which had
been offered. Charlotte was moved
to say:
''That seems dreadfully barbarous
Ito set price on the head of a hu-
man being"
A gentleman across the table took
it up.
but, Miss Farnham, would you
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-12-24

self in fair way to acquire the Gov
eted need of it. From the hour of
his enlistment. if was heaped upon
him unstintingly. Without HAVING
| specialized himself in any way to the
bullying chief mate, he fancied he
was made to bear the brunt OF the
| mans wrath. Curses. tongue-lasb.
ings without mercy; eontumelv and
abuse. with now and then at the
| night landings. when no passengers
were looking on. blows.
All these buffetings. or at least
his share of them, Griswold endured
as became a man who had yolun-
tarily put himself in the way of such
things. And. fortunately, he was not
hopelessly unequal to the physical
trial. Physically, as intellectually.
the material in him was of the fine
grained sort in which quality counts
for more than quantity. None the
less, the first night with it's uncount-
ed plantation landings. tried him
sorely, and he was thankful when
the second day brought fewer stop
ping-places and more time for rest.
1t was in one of the restful inter-
walls that he had been sent aft to
readjust the tackle of the suspended
yawl. He had come upon Miss Farm
ham and her aunt unexpectedly, and
so was off his guard; and he made
sure the young woman had recog-
nized him. If so. what would she
do? He recalled his written sum-
mary of her character. and decided
that she would be sexless and just
before she would be womanly and
merciful. At least he hoped she
would. Ideals are much too pre-
cious to be shattered by mere con-
siderations of personal safety.
But while he theorized upon the
probabilities, he was fully alive to
the necessity for prompt action. If
Miss Farnham- had discovered him.
she would doubtless lose no time in
giving the alarm. She might even
now be in conference with the cap
tain. he thought.
At this he had his first shock of
genuine terror. Up to that moment
he had suffered none of the pains of
the hunted fugitive; but now he
knew that he had fairly entered the
gates of the outlaws inferno; that
he should never again know what it
was to be wholly free from the ter
ror of the arrow that f1ieth by day.
The force of the Scriptural smile
came to him with startling emphasis.
bringing on a return of the prickling
paralysis of fear; but he shook it
off and ran aft to rummage under
For the whistle was sounding for
landing, and it was high time that
he was afoot and fleeing. But when
his hand reached the place where the
bundle should have been, the blood
surged to his brain and set up a
clamorous DINING in his ears. The
niche under the coffee sacks was
empty.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-12-24

of the bank robbery with a little
| gasp of belated horror.
What is it, Charlotte?'' asked the
| invalid.
Charlotte read the reporters story.
Dear me! How shockingly boldi"
commented Miss Gilman.
'Yes; but that wasn't what made
me gasp. The paper says: "A young
lady was at the teller's window
Aunt Fanny, was the young LADY,"
you? Horrors!" calculated the
invalid.
Its true. And 1 had no more
idea-why, it seems Incredible
II should think it would
"There wasn't anything about it to
suggest robbery" Charlotte went
on. 1.-THE man was smiling, and he
had a good face-a face that one
would trust almost intuitively.'
"Charlotte!" exclaimed her aunt
81 do hope they can't trace you by
your fathers draft
What if they could?"
Don't you see! You'd be dragged
into court to identify the robber.
<ALO ClInC "Oulu NC
II shouldn't want to be dragged.
1t would be simple duty to go will
lingly. More than that, 1 think
1 ought to write to Mr.. Galbraith and
give him my name and address"
But at this the invalid protested
| with what authority there was in
her, and Charlotte agreed finally to
wait until the matter of duty had
been submitted to her father.
Here the subject was dropped, and
Charlotte went to her stateroom to
get book for herself and maya
zine for the invalid. It was a full
hour later, and Miss Gilman was deep
in the last installment of the maya
zine serial. when Charlotte gave up
the struggle with the book. Do what
she could. the scene in the bank
would thrust itself between; and at
length she let the thought have it's
will of her.
From where she was sitting she
could see the steamers yawl swing
ing from it's tackle on the stern
staff. In the midst of the reminis-
cent thought. she saw that the ropes
y
would presently fall. When she rose
to go and tell some one, a man came
aft to make the tackle fast, and she
stepped aside to let him pass.
1t was Griswold. She saw his face
as he passed, and there was some
thing strangely familiar in it. When
he had fastened the rope and was
returning, she had fair look at him
and for an instant was fain to grip
the back of her chair to keep from
crying out. For in that instant she
recognized him.
Now. this young woman was wise
beyond her years, and she knew
what she had to do. None the less,
she was true woman. with a heart
full of tenderness and pity. So it is
not wonderful that for a moment
conscience turned traitor, and was
dumb. But it was only for a mo-
ment. The simple and obvious thing
to do was to go at once and tell
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-12-24
CHAPTER VII.

In yielding to the impulse of the
moment which prompted him to bor-
row the identity of John Gavitt, Girls
void was not without some forecast
ings of the event. He knew that the
river steamers were manned by pick
up crews assembled at the last mo-
ment. and reasoned that the officers
OF the Belle julie would not yet
have had time to individualize the
members of the crew.
But. apart from this, he was not
unwilling to add another chapter to
his experience among the toilers; and
as to this, he Immediately found him.