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The evening Republican., 1902-07-25

EDWARD GAM Of St. Georges is
having lots of trouble with his
brother James, who has had him
arrested at leas. half do al times.
He is now bonded III tho sum Of
$40. 600 charged with trespass, for
his appearance at the September
term OF court. 1t looks like broth
er against brother. with the lawyers
likely to get the most out Of the
law suits
The evening Republican., 1902-07-25

EXhortcr's Camp rleetug Gpene

Showers; variable winds, becoming
west.
The evening Republican., 1902-07-25

SOMETHING is wrong vet with the
Wilmington A. A. baseball club.
Wynham pitched Il good game yes
terday striking out II men, but
costly errors in the field en- abled the
Chester team to pile up the runs
and defeat the home team. A little
more steam in needed IN the bat ting
OF the home team.
The evening Republican., 1902-07-25

The Brandywine Summit camp
will soon be with us. Then look
out for rainy weather Why, We
don't know, but keep your weather
eye open all the same,
The evening Republican., 1902-07-25

THE price Of c~al for the present
will be S75 a ton. This the dear
people will have to pay if they
need that article. If the strike con
tinues until September, there is Il
likelihood Of having to pay 80 per
ton or even more.
The evening Republican., 1902-07-25

A REFREsHING shower of rain fell
yesterday afternoon in Wilmington
and vicinity. The worst of the
storm passed over into Jersey The
atmosphere was cooled considerably
and sweltering humanity relieved
The evening Republican., 1902-07-25

JAMES GREER, JR., advertising
soli"itor of the Morning News,
died very suddenly Yesterday
He was Of jovial disposition, big
hearted and liked by all who knew
him. He arose from mailing clerk
in the News office. to All assistant in
soliciting advertising and made
a success of his advancement. He
will long be remembered by all with
Whom he came III contact.
The evening Republican., 1902-07-25

ALEXANDER SMITH Owed into the
river from the mainmaat Of a
schooner 80 feet from the water.
In the descent he lost his equilibrium
and when about 20 feet from the
water, struck on his side aud failed
to come to the surface. He tenpted
fate
The evening Republican., 1902-07-25

THE question a great many Re-
pnblicans voters are asking them
selves is whether it is worth while
to get registerolI They say what's
the use.
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his appetite keen, and at this juncture.
finding himself with what he considered
a winning hand, he after some hesita-
ton reached down into his pocket for
his wallet. Just at this moment a quiet
looking, sturdily built man who, with a
score of others, had been watching the
game, placed a hand on the young
mans shoulder and called halt At
the same time another man stepped to
the smoking room door and locked it.
Put your money back" said the first
to the young man. This game
ends right here. and you men had best
keep quiet" he added, addressing the
professionals and pointing them out one
by one. That is the hand for you to
play right now. You keep your hands
off that pot until this young man has
got his money out of it, and if any of
you four men are seen playing on this
ship for the remainder of the voyage
you will be arrested
Having warned the passengers ari
seen that the young man got his money,
the detective ordered the door unlocked,
and the gamblers skunk away. being
particularly quiet the rest of the trip.
Making up pools and betting on the
daily runs of the ship is always in
progress on shipboard, but the profess
sional sharps rarely go into these pools,
having no opportunities for beating tna
game not open to others Sometimes.
to vary the performance, the "sharks"
take woman along, an agreeable and
attractive female, who introduces them
to the other passengers and paves the
way for the game that is to follov.
This was the case in another game re-
Gently exposed on a steamship of a
German line. The woman's friends Sp-
variably won, and the other passengers
engaged in the game just as invariably
lost, until the gamblers were spotted bv
the ships steward and promptly os-
TRACKED by their fellow voyagers. going
ashore at the end of the trip with a
cloud of suspicion hanging over them.
THOMAS L. WINCHESTER
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until the latter were worn out and all
most in despair. His great exploit ex-
tending from July of last year to March
of this. when he zigzagged over hum
dreds OF miles of the Transvaal and the
Orange Free State, marrying, destroy
ing, always fighting and always getting
away. is one that stamps him as a mill
itary genius of the highest rank in his
class.
He is the least impressive in appear
ance of the three coming visitors and,
in fact, is quite Insignificant, physically
speaking. Before the war he was a cat-
tie drover and acquired the wonderful
knowledge of the country he roamed
over by going about seeking out stock.
He, like his brother generals. is quiet
of demeanor and excessively modest,
but he possesses fund of humor that
the other two apparently lack. One Of
his captures when on a scouting expe-
dition consisted of three of the British
yeomanry who had been taken before.
They were brought before the general,
who, instead of ordering them to be
shot as spies, dismissed them with a let
ter to their general, which read: This
is the fourth time have captured these
raging devils of yours. Please chain
them up. They annoy me-"
EGBERT L. MANTON.
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vast responsibilities. He was born in
Natal of Dutch parents about thirty
eight years ago.
General Jacob Hendrick Delarey, or
De la Rey, is the oldest of the trio,
being about fifty-four or fifty-five, and.
like Botha, is a great favorite with the
Beers who served as soldiers. Delarey
comes of mingled Dutch and Huguenot
stock and is as remarkable as Botha for
his personal appearance, being a big
six footer, with fine, dark eyes, Duke
of Wellington nose and large brown
beard. He is, in fact, the typical Boer
in personal appearance and has all the
great fighting qualities which enabled
his cOuntrymen to make such stand
so long a time against overwhelming
numbers. Born of a fighting family, he
came rightly by his genius for war and
command, and he has not only the cred
it of the first Boer victory of the war,
but also for the change of strategy
from open. organized resistance to the
guerrilla tactics so successfully pursued
by himself and De Wet. He has to his
credit several minor battles, but his
greatest achievement was the capture
of Major General Methuen and the
practical destruction of his command
last March.
Delarey is known as the silent man."
but almost equally taciturn is Christian
De Wet. who was the greatest guerrilla
general the Beers had on their side and,
perhaps. as many have observed, the
greatest the world of modern times has
known. He and Delarey are said to
have sworn a solemn oath never to sur
render. having in mind their devastated
acres and farmhouses, destroyed by
British incendiaries; but now they are
on the way to America bearing a mes
sage of reconciliation to all the world,
including their former foes.
No one of the Boer commanders is
better known than the ubiquitous De
Wet. who alternately chased and was
chased by the British in South Africa
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A SINGULAR CUSTOM.

The Kurds have a very curious and
somewhat dangerous marriage custom,
which one would think would be more
honored in the breach than in the OBJ
servance. The husband, surrounded by
a bodyguard of twenty or thirty young
men, carries his wife home on his back
in scarlet cloth and is desperately as
saulted the whole way by a number of
girls Sticks and stones are hurled at
the bridegroom, who can hardly be
considered a very happy man, for the
irate amazons often infiict on him
marks which he carries to the grave.
1t may be that among the lady pursu-
ers are some of the bridegroom's for
mer flames" who turn the mock at
tack into downright earnest to avenge
sighted love.
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gan to wear upon the passengers they
were introduced by mutual acquaint-
ances and in turn introduced others un-
til they had quite a large circle of men
with whom they were on speaking
terms. Then, Just to relieve the monot-
ony, you know" the subject of cards is
preached. and a very quiet little game"
is started in the smoking room The
professionals lose at first and if any of
them makes winning one of the others
is always ostensibly a loser, it really
making little difference, as he receives
his share of the *swag" at the end of
the trip. They manifest no eagerness
to play, and on boats where they are
suspected have been known to make
an entire voyage without mentioning
the subject of cards at all, just to throw
the ships officers off their guard. They
are always well dressed and of gentle
manly appearance, there being nothing
about them to proclaim them more
than ordinary men of business on a
casual voyage across the pond"
Having acquired the reputation of
being good losers,'' who pay their fire.
quent losses without protest, they grad
ually get on to" the playing of their
fellow passengers and, having selected
their prospective victims, go ahead and
skin them at their leisure. Their meth
DDS of fleeing their victims are those
common to all gamblers and need not
be particularized, but by means of
stacking the cards. marked cards and
preconcerted signals they always man
age to come out ahead
In the instance mentioned as the lat
est reported the game had warmed up
in the usual manner. Beginning with a
dollar limit the bets had gradually
increased until there was the comfort
able amount of s11, 900 in the pot" at
which time it happened that three Of
the sharpers were playing in company
with rich young man who evidently
had more money than brains. He had
been coaxed along and allowed to win
in previous games just enough to make
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The Gould operations meanwhile at
tracted the attention of competing lines.
notably of the powerful Pennsylvania
system. which owns and controls a lit
tie world of its own and includes as
many miles of rails in it's combinations
as it's rival, the m. o. p Besides this,
it has a traffic alliance with the Wander
bits by which virtual monopoly is
maintained along their lines between
the Atlantic slope and the Mississippi
river. The Pennsylvania is also cred
tied with control of the Santa Fe sys-
TEN, thus securing direct connection
with the Pacific coast.
Anyway, its competitive instincts
We're aroused, and war was declared as
soon as the Gould intentions became
evident. Opposition. awass made, mani
fest in a variety of ways, but chiefly
through the Baltimore and Ohio sys-
tenn controlled by the -'Pennsy," which
had traffic agreement with the Vest
ern Maryland A practical ignoring of
this agreement followed hard upon the
nonrenewal of the contract between the
Pennsylvania and the Goulds' Western
Union Telegraph company, which has
been superseded by the Postal. so far as
the eastern lines of the Pennsylvania
extend But the Goulds went right on
regardless of the threats that yet more
valuable franchises would be taken
from them, and the upshot OF the mat
ter is a prospect of as pretty a fight
between two powerful forces IN the
American railway world as the age has
ever seen.
Now the Pennsylvania is reaching out
for new fields for development, having
500. 100000 to expend on betterments
and having laid aside $1,000 600 for in
gress to New York city by means of it's
wonderful tunnel scheme which was
exploited a few months ago. Even aft
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ing but approval, but when he branched
out north, east and west, as in his pur-
chase of the Denver and Rio Grande
lines and more recently the Wheeling
and Lake Erie and the Western Mary
land, some of them began to complain,
the protests increasing in volume when
it came out not long ago that m. o.
P" and Chicago. Milwaukee and ST.
Paul railway had entered into a close
traffic agreement, which is only another
term for union of interests. BY an
other agreement with the Southern and
Central Pacific an outlet was obtained
at San Francisco, and, as the Gould
lines already controlled entrances into
Mexico and to the gulf at Galveston, it
needed only an Atlantic terminal to
make it complete as a transcontinental
system. By means of the Wabash sys-
tenn the Goulds extended their lines as
far east as Toledo. with traffic ar
rangement to Buffalo.
Their first objective in the new deg
velopment was Pittsburg. which has
been reached via the Wabash over the
rails of the newly acquired Wheeling
and Lake Erie. The Goulds are credit
ed with having devoted $40 900, 900 to the
Pittsburg terminal alone. including
among their improvements a million
dollar bridge over the Monongahela.
From PlttSburS they planned to move
still further eastward to connect with
the Western Maryland, which Mr..
Gould recently obtained by a mastery
coup and the expenditure of millions
Surveyors are now in the field seeking
the best route between Pittsburg and
Baltimore, and it seems a matter only
of the near future when the expanding
Missouri Pacific system shall have it's
own rails laid from the Rocky noun
tains and Mexico to tidewater on the
Atlantic coast.
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BETTER THAN MEDALS.

A young man while strolling along
the sands at Tynemouth, England, re-
Gently heard cries for help He at
once plunged into the sea and rescued
a lady from drowning.
A few moments after a gentleman
came hurrying along and, addressing
the young man, said:
Sir, l do not know how to reward
you for saving my daughters life.
know you are too brave and honorable
to accept of money, jewelry or medals,
but I will reward you with good advice.
which is much better. Never eat sau-
sage in the summer time. am pork
butcher and know something"
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PIANO PLAYING RECORD.

A Milan correspondent tells of q
doughty pianist named Bancia who at
Venice recently set himself to break the
record of piano playing so far as time
is concerned. Apparently what the nu-
stefan had to surpass was a forty
hours sitting at the instrument. This
he undertook to do handsomely by
hammering the keys for fifty consecu-
tive hours, that appalling period being
only broken by three short rests of ten
minutes each Incredible as it seems.
this feat was duly accomplished in the
presence of a committee of doctors and
musicians.
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in fact that the Atlantic steamers re-
turning to America from England and
the continent are bringing their richest
freishtages of passengers. The great
American miilionaires and others who
are not quite SO great but like to show
themselves so by flashing a roll OF
long green" are much in evidence just
now and unconscicusly bring along
with them shoals of sharks" and
sbarpers who fatten upon what they
can be prevailed upon to disgorge.
The announcement that professional
gamblers have been detected on this and
that ocean steamship is brought out
every year with all the eclat of a new
discovery. but perusal Of journals
published years ago reveals the same
situation annually aboard the same
steamers or their successors. 1t was
only q few weeks ago that three differ
ent groups of gamblers were spotted
and denounced aboard as many steam
ers coming from a European port and
all flying the same flag. This latter
fact may have been merely a coinci-
dence, for the ocean sharpers are not
prejudiced in favor of any particular
line, only being careful to travel on
different steamers as often as possible,
in order that the officers shall not be-
come too well acquainted with them.
The steamship companies have long
been aware of the fact that their ships
are used as floating gambling palaces
and have done much to break up their
schemes, but hitherto without avail
One company, in fact, went so far as to
refuse noted gambler of New York
passage on it's ships and was promptly
sued for defamation of character. Most
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Town and other places in South AFRICA,
where they were feted and cheered
without stint On arrival in England
they were rendered receptions such as
victorious generals might have expect
ed. accorded an audience with the king
and invited TO attend the great naval
review. all classes of people vying to do
them greatest honor On the continent
it was the same, public meetings being
held at which speeches were made
Drasing the Beers and their heroic
deeds. professions formed, the Boer ma
tional anthem sung by immense crowds,
especially in Holland, and, in fact, uni
versal testimony given of the peoples
respect and admiration for the defeated
generals.
Now that it is announced that the
trio will come to America for the pur-
pose of collecting funds for the relief of
the widows and orphans of Boer SOL
diers. opportunity will be afforded for
a display of the long repressed sympa-
thy which our people have undoubtedly
felt for the Afrikanders' lost cause
There is every reason for believing that
they viii be received with an outburst
of national feeling such as has greeted
few strangers here in recent years.
When it is recalled that the real senti-
ment of this country has always been
with the fighting Beers, that associa-
tfons have been formed for aiding their
cause that congress passed resolutions
Of sympathy and that President Nc
IIinley offered the kindly services of
this country as arbitrator looking to-
ward peace (but which were refused by
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A. 7. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania. Mr..
]. Pierpont Morgan, who is really the
'.l1ingpin'' of the railway consolidation
and community of interest" schemes
in this country, has not yet declared
himself and will not act until the crisis
comes. But that a Titanic contest is
shortly to ensue and that its like has
never been known in the annals of
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are many indications that war is on
between at least two of the vast rail-
way systems that traverse the CONT
nent. These are the Gould and the
Pennsylvania systems, between them
controlling nearly $4,000 miles of rail-
way, or. say, one-quarter the country's
total
It is well known that President
George Jay Gould, wllowas left by his
father in absolute control of all his
railway and telegraph lines, has been
for several years pursuing an upbuild-
ing policy with regard to his immense
holdings. devoting all their earnings to
betterments instead of turning them in
as dividends. He had especially equip
ped his great Missouri Pacific system
with heavy steel rails and the best of
rolling stock and brought it up to a lev
el with its competitors in every respect.
The beneficial result of this farseeing
policy was apparent last year, when the
road, for the first time in its history,
was put on a dividend paying basis,
and not only the Missouri Pacific, but
all it's various subsidiary lines, such as
the International and Great Northern,
the Texas Pacific, Wabash. Rio Grande
etc. were immensely benefited, both
materially and in the market"
So long as President Gould confined
his operations to what his brother rail-
roadists considered his Legitimate"
field in the southwest he met with moth
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AS to the alignment OF the great rail-
way magnates in the forthcoming con-
test opinions differ; but. generally
speaking, the ckefellers-William and
John De. H. Hartman, H. C.
Frick and few others are likely to
be on the Gould side, while the Wander
bits and their financial allies will prob
ably range themselves with Manager
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err securing an Atlantic outlet at Bal
timore. the Goulds, it is said, will not
be quite content until they have gained
terminal facilities at New York. To
this end, it is alleged, they have tried
to secure the Delaware. Lackawanna
and Western the Erie or the Reading
system. but hitherto their efforts have
not been successful.
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'ERY year about this
time, as the old al
llanaCS used to say,
look out for reports
of gambling sharPs
discovered playing
their dishonest games
on the ocean liners.
1t is about this time,
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a brown mustache and beard. The
dominant feature of his face, says one
who knows him well. is that of com
bined manliness and kindness, with
suggestive reserve of immense strength.
At the outbreak of the war he was pur-
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suing the vocation of a gentleman farm /
er. owning a large estate on the bor-
ders of ZAluland. He had received a
good education in his youth and was
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Great Britain, no doubts can be enter
tanned as to the reception that awaits
these heroic veterans of a hundred
fights.
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who generally travel in pairs, but on
this occasion, the steamer being big
one and the prospective harvest from
passengers presumably rich, there was
a quartet of gamblers. They did not
know one another, of course. but as the
voyage went on and its monotony be-
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AS it was. large sums had been already
lost in one instance, and in the other
Jackpot OF $1,000 was on the table when
the game was interrupted. The mode
of procedure in this latest instance re-
ported was the same as has always
been in vogue among the ocean sharps.
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sengers of the presence of gamblers and
warn them against the parties suspect
ed. On two different steamers quite re-
Gently. people were notified of gambling
going on and some money saved to in
nocent passengers that might otherwise
have gone into the gamblers pockets.
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of the crooks" are known, even though
their ranks are constantly recruited by
new sharps, and, being unable to pre-
vent their travelling on their lines. the
companies usually instruct their ships
officers, such as the purser and stew
ard. to inform the generality of pas
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bed, he named Louis Botha as the man
he desired should be his successor, and
the Boer government promptly appoint
ed him to the high position He being
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the most youthful of the Boer generals,
those who did not know his qualities
shook their heads at his appointment
over the graybeards and men of more
experience. But the result quickly veri-
fed the wisdom of the choice.
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The hero of Spion kop Is a magnifi
cent specimen of manhood, being about
six feet in height. well built and with
a strong. handsome face adorned with
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The youngest of the visiting generals
is Louis Botha, recently commander in
chief of the Boer forces in the field and
whose surrender" was SO many times
reported before the final arbitrament.
When General Joubert lay on his death
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married to relative by descent of the
famous Irish revolutionist, Robert En-
met. Botha has been described as one
of natures ready made commanders,
having had very little military training
before he was called upon to assume