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Reminiscences of the Life of
Harriet Tubman.
A CELEBRATED COLORED WOMAN
Her Efforts to Rescue People
From Slavery.
Journeyed South Nineteen Timed a
Three Hi
9 - Frei I
lie
livered Aim
idned
From
tiy
Received
Through Del
tance From tl
La
Out
Lillie B. Chaco Wyiuan iu New England Mr.ga
Harriet Tubman was born in Dor
chester county, Md., about the year
1820. She
there is reason to believe that but for
a fraudulent transaction sho nnd her
mol her would have been free according
to the provisions of
will. Harriet was
While she w
older sisters
held
slave, although
former master's
* of 10 children,
iry little, two of hor
) sold, chained up
with other negroes and driv
She perched on the top ot a fe
watched thorn go, crying
13 y
and
they went.
. _,rs old, she
was told to help tie up a man to bo
whipped. She refused, and tho negro
off, while she put herself in tho
doorway to prevent pursuit. The owner
caught up a heavy iron weight and
throw it at the fugitive. It hit Har
riot on tho head, and induced an ill
ness, which left her subject to attacks
of a letharic nature, which often caused
her to fall asleep,
working or engaged in conversation.
She was "hired out" to act as
child's nurse and maid of all work,
when little more than a child herself.
Sho was obliged to work all day and
then rock a baby as much of the night
jeessary to keep it quiet. The
•ther's
When sho
12
if she were
I
cradle
bed, Harriet was stationed at the cradle,
and a whip lay within the mother's
If ever Harriet coasod her rock
ing and fell asleep, and the baby woke
and cried enough to disturb itn mother,
the lash curled c
tie black girl's neck
She fell ill finally,
Her mother
*ur the
•lly round the lit
d shoulders,
returned,
o, to hor master,
od her back to
health, and then she developed remark
able muscular strength. Being
she was hired out t(
her lift heavy fa
horse
Mit
st
le
:h<
•Is
l perfo
the
moor of
x. She broke (low
again,so utterly that not even the whip
could rouse hor to work, and she was
I
sent home. She lay ill a
Hor master offered to
whole winter,
sell her for a
to bring men to Took at'her. She heard
them discuss the bargain, and lying
there, while the depressing bartering
went on about her,she prayed for a long
time that her master might he con
verted. At last she grew angry and
altered her prayer und said: "Lord, if
■I
't
'vor going to change dat
man's heart, kill him, Lord, an' take
hp wont do
aftor this, she
had died,and sho
nliately struck with penitent
d wished she had not prayed
hi
out ob de wav.
I
i schief." S(
heard that the
fnelings
for hiH death.
Sho feared
that all tho dead
old, and sho
or that she and two of her
brothers were to be speedily
she determined t<
had scarcely any
what she would find if she
Itian'n slav
mid I
he
1 a
•nt South,
ay. Sho
idea who
to go, or
■ont; but
the little knowledge
led
about tho North
forced lie
Ft i
;tive ci
tout a shelter
tho world,
of flying
awaited hor !
Sho had be. n
'"lit to (ire:
towns and fields, hills
st r*
•r in
s sho
ir, but tor "ladies all
who, " she said, "put
safely
•hieh she w
Id have drow
I.
■
tried to c
dressed in white.
out deir nr:
and pulled her
>r. She had deep
faith also i
faith and
s, omens
Accordingly, urged on
! to her future if share
by forebodings
and impelled bv
. ystical impulses, she
pursuad* d hor two brothers to start
witk ber one night for the distant land
of libert
hieb, for all they knew
. , tainty, might prove indeed
to be a "No-man's land."
•ith
She dared
"t tell her father and
mother of her determination to escape,
leHt they in choir distress should rev.... ,
her plans; but, she wished to utter her I
farewells i
her other friends
real
1,1
fashion that they
would remem her
d interpret afterwards, in order that
her ab
out about umong their
they
cabins, singing
When dat v
ight he
comforted
0 ole cl«
r
*i f*
nniscd land,
> lea lie v
leubu y.
P
Krion's I'
I
lorry, friun
well oh fur
b\
Her brothers w
short way. Their hearts
the (iarkne
font with her but
gave thorn
the hidden road,
and watched thcr
»»*1 still
K'' back, and then.
I ali alone in
midnight, she turned lier rceolu'n stuns
northward. Sho had made un her mind
that she had a r'
things, freedom o
determined that m
her back alive.
an, young
tiio
e of two
Sh** was
should take
Sho reached Philadelphia
1 went
to work to o
was haunted by thoughts (
she had left behind in
December, 1850, she
♦ . ar "î kelflod her sister
to escape with two children.
tinued to make journeys into Mar
her livi
: but si
*f the.
h.
'ont back
Baltinn
Sh
ay fugiti
it il the
Civil War
ed.
kept of the mini her she thuf
from slavery, but it p
it amounted to about 3
N
. .vent
J!*;,™
she
19 t.
She
•vor failed in i
of the
guide. I North
was ev.-r recaptured,
to he called the Moh.-h
T!:
Bhe c
Of her pe,
She oft
■ pie.
r l thro
■
ami
<1
Quaker
vhosn pH
»hjf'ct i
.
Th<*
Titer of thi
■*• h
I h
his be
* lw|.|,.v oil) a
;
,tf
I ha
up
•t t
t*
h
Ihn
I pe.
his litiin
I.
naif
he pro
of thés,
» •t : • (,n
It, le
t HiH be ;
:
ul
aft
with II
nf j,
g uff
Th., I
gray h*
: 11 * : * ' r lifted hi,
> I a
-, th.
kasn't left
l.l
1 in this
'»»-n.that if a
k
"f a f
i
it.
•hel
■
" IU| " »Ti'-»-*. kcii'I hi
»•tt. and he
: ' befriend him. '
•U was a shoe dculer.aud he was 1
(j;
accustomed to give all Harriet's refu
geos now shoes if they passed through
Wilmington. Living as ho did in a
State which for a long tiuio permitted
slavery in its I ordere, he never dared
to keep any written
perieucea; but he estimated that Har
riet brought to him between UO and 70
slaves. In a letter published in a brief
memoir of her life which was prepared
by one of hor friends, ho says of Har
riet: "in truth, l never met with any
person of any color, who had more
lidenco in the voice of God, us spoken
direct to her soul. "
One (lay she came into his store and
told him that God had revealed to her
the fact that he had some money for
hor. He asked her how much she
wanted, and after reflecting a moment,
she said: "About (2d." Ho then
handed her 824 and somo odd cents,
which had been sent to him by a gen
tleman in Scotland, who had hoard of
Harriet from the reports of Abolition
ists and had consequently forwarded
this
tary of the Edinburgh Anti-Slavery
Society. It was the lirst money G
rott had ever received for Harriet. A
year lator she e
saying that God had told her that bo
again had money for hor, but not
much as ho had before. A few days
previously unotber gift of one pound
and ten shillings had come from the
other side of the ocean.
These incidents impressed him with
the conviction, which other people who
came in contact with her also felt, that
she possessed a sort of clairvoyant
power. She had no education what
ever, but she assured her Quaker triond
that sho. talked with God daily, and
that God talked with her, and said sho
felt no fear of being arrested on her
expeditions, because sho nev
anywhere unless God sent her, and sho
He would protoct her.
Sho took (titreront routes on hor jour
that but a portion of her pro
teges went through Delaware. At first
she took them only as far
State, but after the Fugitive Slave law
passed sho carried her parties to
Canada. "I wouldn't." she said,
"trust Uncle Sam wid my people
longer." During the later years be
fore the war, she made her own home in
ada, but she did not stay the
»count of his o:
through Eliza Wigham, sec
to him,
■
was
New York
C
ih.
She had various ways of lotting the
'hen sho
in their country,
mysteriously
worded that the white people who in
spected it could make nothing of it,
•gro to whom it was addressed
had the wit to clear himself of
iu Maryland km
nogre
was likely to appe
Once she sent a totter
•ad to hi
I
., iiv
refusing to take it and declaring tha't
it could not he for him. Ho under
, very woll, and, re
membering the words which lie had
pretended were utter nonsenso he con
HHBgo to Harriet's brothers
that they were to propar
North with her.
stood it, howev
voyou the
to fly to the
On
•casinn Rho
by daylight through a
Iked boldly
village where
slave. She pulled
she had lived who
her
-bonnet
tated tho gait of
ir tier face and imi
elderly pe
kot place she bought
live fowls. Turning a c
to '"hom she hai
"hired out. " She twitched the string
that bound the legs or the chickens
they struggled and screamed she
1 so hid her face as
. In
I le
•r. she
*t
ce bee
:
bent
she went by her master.
Once she sent her company of fugi
tives onward by some
started North herself ■
them,
Jrot route, and
a railroad train,
in the car offering
There w
• posters ;
$40,000 for her head,
read the
The.paseenge
aloud, so that she
At the next
pape
l their purport,
station the dauntlc
car and took a trai
let
left the
going South, feeling
' Would suspect
that a woman
•ho
life ii
asset would dare turn her face i
: ■
price
I that
promised
of tho region she
■ ii
ion. Tho
by th*' slave-holde
was accustomed to visit.
She tolerated
in herself
. A toothache tor
mented her during one of her journeys.
She took a stone or bit of
knocked the offending tooth nut of her
»f the hand sho was
weak
>r in her follows
and
mouth. If any
leading faltered
th rougi» terror*
nr threatened to lie down
it her to di
i, H
tho
ait a chance to
ret
i I •
iet
her heroism
ly for their
'no«H. Kbo
rolver at their heads
> talos;
g mothers
with her, and Harriet put their
ies into baskets and dru;
•ould not
l*t for her people was
•st desperate e
her fugitives lacked food it
ecessary to hide
■da, and then leave them
»untry herself in
the best
jxt station on their
signals to let
had ;
heroi
•dv
!in ''
physical (
moral f;
p y pointed
1 : " Dead nigge
on or die." Y«
tell
S3
1 them
Ivation
■rth in
so til
she s
T:.
:iy.
her eyes the
Whe
them ii
the
the
■r t<. les
of reaching tho
trip. She used pongs
the poor c
'H know
as sho c
she
back to the
that it w
y who app
fill whether m
to h
hod. It is doubt
led
B till
h sho h
h-i
mging did
n throufc
«led forests to the
them,
t(
h
-.ight. she c
/■
} ti* a town when*
ted to lind a friend who had
h given her aid. She left her
party huddled together in the street in
she ex;
l\"c
dol.r (if ^the * ilo
•ing to tho
. .... «he had
formerly viRited she gave a peculiar
rap. which sho anew her friend
. A white man put his head
* window and gruffiv de
She asked for
toid that he
ould
t of til
led
acquaintan
•" Da> light
I : ;
Dis
at
led
'ery
but
•nt bef*
.ment :
11
only a m*
she re
the villa;
> led th**
h** tall, damp grass.
.vamp
d
Th*
Iiiey were hungry and
frightened, but i i.
food, lest the i
t !ll
*t dare*
f.
■an she had r<
Id have
9*'d her
Mirers .
ih*
There was a
babies in the party, but
not the
•h.
ih**
.in
an*I km
■
f. *r
of tho situ;
turn. Thi
lulls k
I they shiv
dismal dav.
die
* walking along
Mo talked m
ifioir, _
Harriet heard hi
md* ir, the In
•'»sh the i
bddo; tho harnr:
A fti
* igllt fell
I
Quaker cloth
the edge nf the
<d Him
irx list*
My wagon sh
*•*1.
vard <*f
the
ext fm
Tn J
•uy.
h<
the
p
Night sett let I
Harriot stole ;
tin* farmyard.
*
sh«* fo
I tie
"ii : and it \v:
■d
•ith pr**v
'
,
• Hlf.pinng pl» , . , i.
Mulrnau. bhe
m charge to
found
; 1 'hem to him.
•• arned how .the
b
as driving
h* r whole
party t., ti,
ve th** horse
1 But Harriet
ver
stranger knew that tho fugitives were
lurking in tho swamp,
greatly caro to know. Sho always ex
pected God to send her deliver
timo of trouble, and sho saw no reason
for wondering that He had done so
this time.
One of tho fugitives whom she helped
to escape was a man named Joe, whose
first master sold him. Tho morning
aftor the bargain was completed tho
ordered Joe to strip, ami
then gave him a severe flogging, ad
mitting that Joe had committed
offenco to deserve punishment, but
saying that ho "always began with his
niggo
in«»- "
did she
by giving them h good lick
to establish bis authority
ür them firmly. After this chastise
•nt, Joo wont at onco to the cabin of
"old Ben," Harriet's father, and Baid :
"Xox* time Moses eûmes, let
know."
Being therefore put in communica
tion with Harriet, Joe joined u party
which chanced to bo more hotly pur
•d than were most of her companies.
The fugitives wore obliged to separate
d take different rondR-, but they met
again in the house of Samuel Green, u
free negro living in Dorchester county,
Maryland. This Gre
sent to jail for 10 voars, by Rente
a county court hold in C
that State, been
Tom's Cabin"
session.
afterwards
of
bridge in
a copy of "Uncle
as found in his pos
T
thousand dollars was offered for
tho capture of Joe, and the roads and
woods through which ho and his
farmed
panions made thoir
hunters eager to catch him and secure
When tho escaping party
•arod Wilmington Bridge,
)d Harriet that advertisements
out concerning Joe's flight, und
that the bridge was guarded by polico
*n. Sho hid the fugitiv
ate places, and contrived to get word
into tho city to Thomas Garrett, ad
vising hi
,'itb
ay
thi
friend
of their s
strait. Tho
'll old Quaker sent
> two wagons full of bricklayers,
who shouted and sung as they passed
the officers. They returned after dark,
still shouting and singing, and tho
guards did not suspect that while
tho noisy workmen occupied the seats,
ilent negroes lay close together
Btl
tho wago
When this
y finally
ived
•onip
New York City,
into the Anti-Slavery Office, und Oliv
Joh
Harriet took the
net Joe, exclaim
up t.
ng : "1 a
wth tw
glad to see the
who is
lollars to his
master.'' The slave-holder's adver
mt had preceded the slave to tho
ml this his heart
that
tiso
office. Who
Bank wiihin him. lie felt
rder would follow and seize hi
before ho could
Joe le
hi
la. 11 w
now proposed to forward tho fugitiv
tho rest of the way by train,
was alarmed at this idea. Ho thought
they would he safer to goon foot, walk
ing by night and hiding by day in
forests and ditches. He was persuaded,
however, to proceed with tho others in
the railroad c
possessed hi:
As the train
Bridge, tho
ach Ci
.1
: but a deep melancholy
spirit.
•preached the Suspension
egrooB, who occupied a
which ull the other passengers
sympathized with them, begun to sing.
Harriet probably furnished the words:
tho rest joined—all but Joo.
iodily silent,
Ho w
afraid.
Ho sal
bile the song rang
out :
Oh. f heard (pie
Victoria say,
if we
Our native land of slu
And c.
mild f
ry,
•ross do lake;
Dat she was j
ding on do shore,
wid arms extended wide,
To give us a peaceful ho
Beyond do rolling tide.
When the trai
the bridge, Harriet,
came to tho centro of
knowing that
I. bounded
arly pushed Joo
out of hiH Beat, crying in wild exulta
you've shook tho lion's
derstand hor, and
til
langer line
pa«
tho car
tin
paw. " He did not
B" she had to expiai
"You're in Queen
ore quietly:
(I*
an. Then
head like
Joe
ood up
, fo
Glory
OI./S
d, lifting his
let n irr
tv soul got sale!
■fi
When at last hi
planted on C
people from the < s
about him. ho wiped the to
feet were fi
ly
I all tin
•in
rejoicing
from
hi
far
do
'h only o
oy for
joi
now, and dat
Harriet persuadai thro
brothers to fly with her, after she had
demonstrated the fad that such efforts
They decided to
ge of the Christmas holi
■ako the utto
Of her
could be successful,
take ad van
days to
Christi
"foddo
pt;
day they lay hidclo
ight fall,
ther'e
iet
th them. Thei
cabi
close by their place ot c*
coalment, and their
»Lhor w
expect
■ for a festival di
Harriet had not spoke
mother for si
n with her
x years; but she dared
, . . I the
e also afraid to go to her, lest
sped theiitph
id grief make
»1
ll herself to her
hoys wer
she should
her terror
which would betray them. So all .lav
long tho brothers and sister peep*. ( '|
through the chinks of the fodder-house
wall, and watched thoir riisuppoi
mother come to her
anxiously up
ed
!...
1 look
d dow
the road to s.-(
her s(
s, who did not co
j. One ..f
now-In
the
•n had left a wife
I
babv.
The wife hail sobbed
:
ied ;
•ith her,
but ho had
because he had heard that he
South.
*t dared to stav
be sold to t!
All ho could .1.
to <
fort lie
that if
ho escaped he
back for her s<
il
force*I Harriet to let her
father,
Id Bon," kn*.
hero hi
chi Idre
ll** brought th
but he would
for..l
several ti
at t lu*ui u
dark, the me
ot look
dien h.
After it was
ith their sister
•lit
abi
■on by tho old
silently through the
Old Ben
eyes band
.io arm and
daughter by tin* other, and thus
a little
At last
hid him faro
'.ed
thei
• out to then
aged. \ son too
other.
•ith his
iru bv o
hi
a
they led him between The
distance on thei
they found strength
well. He stood in the
* ■
»ad and liste
d *,f their footsie;
unbound the cloth fri
: then lie
I
hi.>
and wended Hi
•>
Having taken all these
•ecauti*.
to th»*
of hi!
the ,
ul
al.io to
ti.
ly, when'*;in stil
ut to him
missing sons, that "ho
about hi
J hadn't see
me of 'em die Christ
A noth
fourth brother
time II.
let guided North
•*>.„, ani".l by his
'•etlieart dis
1 a*
a Jboy ; and
nally she
timidity of
h'T parent
yd the
also to
:
almost a matter of course that
i "Moses" should c
i. I 1 ...tliur to liim-i-rt tllaiw for 11 niuru
g-.-,(.raI liberation of the slaves than
could effect alone in her midnight
. k , ;*s. The Kansas hero met Harriet
i s • time before he invaded Virginia.
[ Wcudell Phillips wrote; "The last
.I..;
time I over saw John Brown was under
«By own roof, as he brought Harriet
Tubman to mo, saving, 'Mr. Phillips,
I bring you ono of the neat and bravest
persous on this continent' " It must
have been a scone for a painter; the
group they throe made, as they stood
together in the littie reception room of
Mr. Phillips' Essex street house—the
blonde iloston gentleman, the atorn
faeed man who was to dio on a gallows,
and the dark-skinned Maryland WQrnan.
John Brown and a colored man
named Loguen went to St. Catherine's
in Canada to sen Harriet, when Hrown
WM making preparations for his Vir
ginia campaign. Gorritt Smith paid
the expenses of this trip. Loguen
found Harriet's house in this town,
and informed her privately that Brown
was in the place, and asked her whether
sho would go to the hotel and see him
or whother it would do for him to
come to see her. Harriot declares that
forewarned by dreams that
John Drown was to corao to her, and
she answered Loguen that tho old man
might visit her home, for nobody would
hurt him there. She also Rent for somo
of the colored people in tho neighbor
hood to come and see him.
When John Brown entered ho shook
times, saying:
. Tubman, the
second is Gen. Tubman and tho third
is Gon. Tubman."
Ho sat down and explained his pur
poses to hor and to the negroes who
came in. As is well known, his first
intention was to establish a camp in
tho Virginia mountains, and gather
togothor and run off fugitive slaves;
and he urged liai riot's friends to aid
him. Ho promised to send thorn word
when and whoro to join him. He said
that in any raid they were to bo called
upon to make, they were not to destroy
property, injure children or insult
women. He also said that if in tho
conflicts which he evidently antici
pated, white men were taken prisoners,
they would be released on condition
that they would send to his party
colored men in numbers equal to their
own families.
John Brown remained in St. Cathe
rine's several days, and saw Harriet
more than once, it ih stated, moreover,
that he framed his Constitution in her
house. He told her. as ho told many
other persons, that God had called him
to do something for the black man,
and ho declared that he was not fa
to be killed by a Sharpe's ritio
bowie knife.
Many of the negre
promised to go to Bn
ordarty but
changed his plans afterwards attacked
Harper's Ferry, and never sent for his
Canadian recruits. At this time, hoi
to have had no doubt'
to what ho should do. A letter is pub
lished iu F. B. Saul
him, in which he save, speaking of
Harriet
she w
hands with her th
"The first I
that town
when he sent
the world knows, ho
•r, he se
's biography of
if she were
"I
succeeding to all appearaneo
beyond my expectations. Harriet Tub
his whole team at
natuially that
I ever met with. There is the most
abundant material, and of the right
quality,, in this quarter, beyond all
When John Brown bade Harriet good
fay, he again called her ''General"
three times, and informed hor that she
would hear from him through Doug
lass. This was probably tho parting
which the writer onco heard II
describe, when sho stood
step and gazed after hi
) him,
minibus which he had entered till
out of sight. They were two
rho dealt i
alike moved by impulses from mysti
cal and hidden sources.
Just before sho met Capt Brown ir.
"She
hooked
Ho is the most of a
•o beard
arriet
her door
long as she
1 then watched tho
•on Id
it
souls
tion. but
Canada sho hud thi
thought sh
of pluco, aii full of rocks and bushes,*
when she saw a Rorpont raise its head
among tho rocks, ami as it did so, it
became the hoad of an old
a long white beard, gazing at her 'wish
ful like, jes'
•ns fiort
ii'.
of ho w
gwine to speak
' and then two other heads
up beside him, younger than he,
she stood looking at them, and
wondering what they could want with
her, a great crowd of men rushed in,
and struck down the younger heads,
I then the head of tho old
'wishful.' This
1 agai
could not interpret it; but when sho
met Capt. Brown, shortly after, behold,
the very image of the head sho
When tho news came to
to
still looking at her
dro
sho had agai
■
he w
had
her of the tragedy of H.irper'a *
"then sho know the two other hoads
Fo
his two s*
"Her ow
veneration for Capt.
Brown, " says tho writer just quoted,
" has always been profound, and since
•der, lias taken the form of u
ligion. "
After John B
visited Mr. Sanborn i
•n'n death, Harriet
Concord ; and
seeing in one of his rooms, Brackett's
bust of the martyr of Harper's Ferry,
she fell, says Mr. Sanborn, "into a Hurt
of ecstacy
and went *
f sorrow and
in her rhapsodical way to
is apotheosis." Mr. San
also writes that he regards her
the whole the most extraordinary
imiration,
poraon of her
and in his estimate of her ho lays much
phasis on that inexplicable element
, which has always ren
dered her subject to "dre
misgivings and f<
Harriet wt
Civil W
services; and she
ce' ' he bus ev
known ;
.
her
, visions,
•ariiings. "
•nt South during the
to perform scouting and other
takeu along when
a portion of th«» army advanced into tho
interior under the command of Colonel
Montgomery, a Kansas associate of
s, in order that she might
encourage and care for the negroes who
were found on the plantations und tukon
back to Beaufort Sometimes sho
acted as a spy, going secretly into the
rebel lines.
For many years now this remarkahlo
woman has lived in Auburn, Now York.
She is very poor; but she devotes her
self to the
«lohn Brown'
•n and
• aged and wretched tin
herself, and she cares for helpleHH chil
dren wno are allied to her race. Her
house in a hospital for the infirm and
the sick. Her patience and charity
•arinesB. A fow friends
assist her and wonder at her. "She
would have died long ago but for her
it able courage and will," writes
of those.
i a magnanimous letter to Harriet,
written in 1868, Frederick Douglass
deprecates his own merits as compared
He bi
"The differ,
marked,
suffered i
of colorai
knr
to her •
ja . betwee
Most that 1 hav»* done
the service of our cause has
and 1 havi
nt at eve „
.oil the yther hand,
' rate way. 1 have
the day—you in tho night.
I have Juki the applause of the crowd,
while th** moat that you have d<
been witnessed by a few trembling,
footsore bondme
hav»* led out of
.
ived
rv step of
the way. Y
lain
wrought i
«I i
P
has
•hom y
and whose heartfelt 'God
your only reward."
bondage.
bless you' haR be
is able to speak for
bitnsolf, when a kuavoisnut. Shakes
peare.
An honest
AO iNTETiOCKANIC CANA!,.
Senator (iray It«
ne Would he a
Thi* Country.
!..
. H
a
N
York Herald. March
Senator Gray of Delaware fully en
dorses the view of the Herald that any
canal across Nicaragua
would be both
military disadvantag
States. Citing the fact that much of
the commerce of the world now moving
between Europe and the far East pauses
through this country, lie says;
"Does it not look like taking money
out of our pockets in two ways v
k to pledge the credit of
United States to the construction of
this proposed canal? We Incroaso our
bonded debt by just tho amount of tho
. and no man can
tear away
own enterprises and flieh from
the nnckotB of American workingmon
by thus establishing an avenue of trans
portation that must inevitably divert
from our shores much of the cominorce
and trade of the European countries,
and send around us to Asiatic coun
tries and the Orient that transportation
business that now goes through
own territory. As a business proposi
tion, this should appeal to business
men. "
Senator Gray has
roseate representations of tho military
naval advantages of tho canal. On
the contrary, he believes that "instead
of strengthening us it would bo
mont of weakness to us," and for thoso
reasons :
"As wo now are, wo havo an equal
chance with every other power in de
fending our two coasts, but with that
canal dividing tho two continents wo
would be compelled to hold it at any
cost agairiHt tho combined strength of
any two of the great naval powers.
"Once let us ho cut off from
canal—lot that highway pass into the
hands of an enemy, and our ships and
our coast would bo at the mercy of the
enemy. Our fleet would then be in
tho position of an army cut in half and
unrated from its base of supp
That is a sound and sonsin
Our commercial interests
considerations of national safety dictate
that the true
States should
canal. "
Panama
commercial and a
to the United
bonds we may
tell the amount of money
from
faith in the
that
c policy qf the United
I bo "No interoceanic
A VKELtMiN AHY
JUNCTION.
A Retirai
ln« Order
of the Ct
John
on the Ap
epreaentlug
. II tan not
and tho
Children of Mr». Kopf.
Chancellor Nicholson has granted
injunction restraining tho Security
Trust and Safe Deposit Co., trustee
der the will of the late John Hart
mann, from interfering with the conduct
and management of the business of the
Hartmann A Fehrenbach Brewing Co.,
from undertaking to make a change
in the board of directors of the brew
ing company. The application was
made Thursday afternoon by Willard
Saulsbury, representing John G. Hart
mann, president of tho company, and
the minor children of Mrs. Kopf, a
daughter of the late John Hartmann,
all of whom are bonuiiciarios under
the will.
There has boon a disagreement be
tween tho Security Trust und Safe De
posit Co. ami perse
(lends
a
titled to divi
tbe stock hold by the trust
ulted in tho appli
pany, which
cution of
injunction.
A representative of the board of di
)ctors, who
seen by a
•porter of
Tho Gazette Friday morning, stated
that Charles C. Kurtz, who has been
manager for somo timo, has tendered
his resignation, but ho will remain
with the company for several
George Baumann, who has been assist
ing Mr. Kurtz, is not connected with
the company. Mr. Kurtz will continue
of the collectors
with the company. The other
* are J, George Fehrenbach
eoks.
collectors
I Frank M. Sovier, tho lattur having
just boon appointed.
Lia
Manager Cook of tho local Adams
Express office has received a supply of
books in which are printed lists of all
the offices of the company in the United
States, Canada and Mexico, together
with other information of interest to
shippers. This i,* the first complete
list over issued by tho company.
Will Do It?
I that
»«»fui
Uy
tng,
ipi.lk
'Ihn
•lliv
1 »urn
arrli i
lilHtory of tho
proof that only
these courtttion
Till« «ale and
-I timt I« Ely'.- Ui
e .ut reined> ha
itn
■ '
i*d
hi*
physician
l<
e May be 1'leutlfn|.
Local gunners
po will be plentiful this year,
probably be here in about i
being
Within the past few
of the opinion that
They
will
and preparations a
hunting them.
duys many skylarks have been
tho rural territory around Wilmington,
k.
de ft
Camera Club'« New Qi..
The new quarters of the Delawaro
Camera Club in tho second story of tho
Kogers Building, at Sixth and Orungo
streets, will be occupied on March 25.
Tho room will bn suitable for giving
lantern slide exhibitions, but for the
present there will be no (lark room.
Fine und Complete Tugboat.
The current number of Seaboard, a
New York mar»
publication, gives
illustrated description of the tug
boat Henry U. Palmer, which
built by the Jackson & Sharp Co. Soa
board speaks of the Palmer
d complete tugboat. '
ProgroMfitve K
A progressive euchre party
at Kirkwood on Thursday night by
Jucoti B. Cazier. Many people p
ticipated. Tho first lady's prize was
carried off by Mrs. J. F. Elinson and
the first gentleman's prizo by Merritt
"a very
giv
Specification» Revi««
Tho specifications for the improve
ments ut the Howard School have been
revised ami
office of E. L. Rice, architect.
the tables at the
Bids
ill be opened by the Board of Kduca
Monday evening, March 23d.
An Ag«*«l Wandefer.
Pascbull Peterson, Sr., an aged man,
wh*, strayed away from his home, No.
1408 Lancaster avenue, on Tuesday
week, was found by the police wander
ing about Market street bridge over the
Brandywine, Thursday evening.
A Young Dodger.
old lad, liv
ing in Philadelphia, applied at the
police station Thursday night for lodg
ing. Ho stated that ho
it a relative at Avondale, and
•d to go Friday morning.
J2-y
»'rank Nelson,
on his
ay
alloy
r. Itayur
Ambassador Bayard vvas a guest at tho
Huguenot Society's dinnor in London
Wednesday evening. He responded to
the toast "Tho Mother Country" ilia
received with cheers.
■marks w
The tug Amanda Powell, which has
been on tho marine railway *,f the
Enoch Moore <fc Sons Co., receiving a
whaeL way launched Friday.
Bl
needle wonk guild.
m W ■ I in I net on Ill-illicit Itepo
iiomiiI of ArtloIttM.
Onicer* of
R«i;nr<llii B
»• I»l __
Tho officers of tho Needle Work Guild,
feeling that tho contributors of tho
articles shonId have dofinito knowledge
of tho disposal and distribution of the
garments, take this method of making
a statement, ns it will bo more far
reaching than any other manner of
making a report.
There were 2,000 articles of clothing
collected by the Guild, and they w
given to the various institutions, as
follows : Sunday Breakfast Association,
7/V' , B Daughters, 25; Circle of
King's Daughters, 25; police matrons,
50; Bible readers, 200; Associated
Chanties, 100; Girls' Industrial School,
m; St. Michael's Mission, 150; St.
Matthew's Mission, 100; St. Joseph's
Colored Asylum, 200; St. Peter's
Asylum, 125; Delaware Hospital, 131;
Homaopathic Hospital. 118; Colored
Women's Home, 13; a total of 1,332.
Tho residue, 608, wore divided pro
rato among the section presidents, sub
ject to application in the various
tioqp by the members of tho Guild.
Auy further information concerning
tho Guild and its workings may be had
at No. 602 West street, and it is hoped
that tho good it has accomplished may
commend it to tho generosity and in
terest of the public.
Tho Guild is designed as a direct
charity and is entirely nonsectarian.
Tho section presidents
C. Bird; Mrs. Willard Saulsbury, Jr.,
Mrs W. C. Spruance, Mre. Bead .1.
McKay, Mrs. Henry G. Morse, Mrs.
Martha B. Ward, Mrs. Lewis William
son, Mrs. Charles B. Lore, Mrs. George
Gray, M
Andrew G. Wilson, Miss
unco, Mrs. Amelia Layton.
: Mrs. Levi
Spotswood Garland, Mrs.
a. U. Spru
Lecture on ttlrda.
Prof. Witrnor 8tone of Philadelphia,
conservatory of tho ornithological sec
tion of the Academy of Natural
Sciences, lectured at Friends' School
Friday under the auspices of the
Natural History Society of Delaware.
The subject was "Protection and P
nervation of Our Native Birds. " The
lecture was illustrated with storeopti
con views. The speaker discussed tho
causes that combine to bring about the
of various species of
sessary to their
changing and some species
nable to adapt themselves to the
Fashion is the greatest de
of birds. Millions upon
of birds have
rifined to the craze. Collections of
birds' eggs are hIho responsible for tho
destruction of the bird species. Pro
tection to the birds can only come
through the education of the people
and by protective legislation, sustained
by the game wardens; by a better un
derstanding of their practical value
insect destroyers and tho cultivation of
love for birds in the rising generation.
extermination
birds. Condith
existenc
change.
strove
illic
een
Meetluirof Italian».
An Italian massmeeting was held at
tho hall at Fifth and du Pont streets
Friday night. Speeches
a great deal of sympathy was expressed
for the fumili
slai
made and
of tho Italians who
injured in Abyssinia. It
was decided to open a subscription list
and keep it open until April 1st, when
all money suhscribed will be forwarded
to the Italian consul in New York, lie
will be requested to place the funds in
tho hands of tho Rod Cross Society for
distribution where it is
ideil.
Funeral of Tlioma» MrClary.
The remains of Thomas McClary
nterred in Wilmington and
Brandywine cemotery Thursday after
noon. Services were hold at his lato
resilience, No. 707 King streot, and
conducted by tho Kov. A. T.
Bowser. Miss Wales sang "Nearer, My
God, to Thee." Tho honorary pall
Edward Butts, A. D.
hearers w
Warner,|D. W. Taylor, William Lawton,
Frank L. Bakor and William M. Canby.
Officers KlM'tfil.
The Delaware Camera Club at a
meeting in the Equitable Building last
Thursday elected tho following officors.
President, George K. Thompson ; First
Vice-President. Miss Kachel 8. How
land; Second Vice-President, George S.
•sponding Secretary, John
C. Phillips; Kocording Secretary and
TreuFuror, Earnest B. MacNair.
Knight» of l'ythiu»
Minneapolis, Minn.,March 13. - Tele
grams have been received from Suprn
Chancellor Kitchie
nahan, sanctioning tho proposed North
western Knights of Pytbians encamp
ment, to be hfld here next August.
Most of tho Western brigades will send
delegations hero instead of to Cleve
land.
Elliott; C
General Car
KlIlfMl
Eut ton, I'a, March 13—Archibald G.
Pascoe, aged 48 years, a prominent
citizen of South Easton and a well
known Kopuhlican politician, while
standing on the tracks of tho Lehigh
Valley railroad this morning, was struck
by a locomotive and instantly killed.
He leaveR a wife and fivo children.
Impro
Improvements
K «be Dali *.rounds.
being made at the
street ball grounds by the
Wilmington City Railway Co. Tho
capacity of the bleachers
creased and the grand stand will bo
strengthened and otherwise improved.
The field will bo put in good condition
also.
Uni(
ill be i
Piueon Shoot.
Jacob Huber, Harry Ford, Harry
White. Joseph White, Harry Marr,
Mark De Cray, Alfred II. Stout, «lames
Jester, Dr. Paxon
went to Pennsylvania
shot at live pig««
and CrosB tied and divided tho purso.
and Joseph P. Cross
Friday and
Messrs. Marr
A
Baning,
Coniv
Cal., March 14.—Robert
1 James Reef of Pasadena,
named
ilea south of Twenty
Palms. The killing was caused
by a dispute over mining property.
killed yesterday by
Nicholson. 22 m;
Ni
Mr«. Hi ml le.
Mrs. llindle, mother of Alfred Hindle
Sunday.
of this city, died in Chester
ied at Kivorviow cemetery
Wednesday. She was 76 years of
age and death resulted fi
trouble.
and
heart
Washington, March 13.—The Senate
to-duy author
>n the bill for
ittae <
favorable report tipt
the admi.suion of New Mexico
State.
terri tori
com
izad
Dr. W. K. Barrett, son of Presiding
Elder Barrett, has purchased from W.
A. Pryor, the drug store at the north
woat corner of Sixth und Walnut streets.
A Philadelphia paper in authority for
tho statement that Bragdon & Co. of
Middletown have p
tors to the Zoological Gurdona iu tbut
city.
ntod two alliga
a
George Johnson »lied suddenly Wed
nesday night at his home, No. 4-10 West
Front street.
Why Hasn't Mr. Wiswell Been
Commissioned Major?
THE QUERY OF AN OLD SOLDIER
Adjutant-General Hart Silent
on the Subject.
Say*
tlon Anked liy the V
Ha» No Reply to Make to the Que».
Ih Keapon
for
to Acting Oo
or VVatdon Alo
HU
in« the Militia.
Friday's Milford Chronicle
tained the following communication:
"Mr. Editor: Last summer a neigh
bor of mine, Capt. Fred. C. Wiswell,
was reported through tho columns of
your, and otbor papers, as having been
elected major of tho First Kogiment,
N. G., of this State. With others, I
congratulated him on his election; but
I hear ho has never received his com
mission. What is the troublo? In a
conversation with friends, tho Governor
iR reported us having said that Wiswelp
ought to have been commissioned Ion
ago. 1 don't know of my
edge, what the Governor said, but I do
know that Wiswell is capable of filling
tho oflico, and as an old veteran and
comrade, I wish you would let the pub
lic know why an old soldier of actual
war, is treatod as ho is by tho militia
of Delaware. 1 am, sir, an old army
and woll wisher of the National
Guard of the country.
knowi
Old Soldier."
appended
follows :
of many
To the communication
editoriul, which read
"The abovo inquiry is
that are asked by old soldiers and
Grand Army
grot to air the dirty linen of the Na
tional Guard of Delaware, we feol that
tho blame for tho matter should be
placed where it belongs by tho public.
"In July, 1895, Gov. Watson issued
an order to his Adjutant-General, G
rett J. Hart, of Wilmington, that tho
Board of Officers of tho First Kogiment
should convene at Dor
major to till a
In co
Wisw
upset the plans laid by tho Wilming
ton people, and they resolved to depri
Wiswell of his commission. Thi
a deliberate policy of the Atljuiant
General's department, and has been
faithfully carried out for ni
past. No effort can rouse them to action
and even the suggestion of tho ( i
himself
bull headed spirit that dominates the
Adjutant General and hin advisers in
this matter. It is rank insubordina
tion among thoso who should set ex
amples of obedience to the line,
this little junta of pane
power to order Maj. Wi
, and much as
and elect a
•ancy in the regiment,
mpliance to that order Capt. F. C.
ell of Milford, was elected. This
ths
rnor
not rouse the stubborn,
That
soldiers have
iswell before an
examining board, and turn him down
on physical conditions, every old Na
tional Guardsman well knows. Capt
Wiswell is a soldier of the rebellion,
and in tiin head wears two silver piatoa
patches to his skull where rebol bul
lots passed through his head, and of
course he is not physically a sound
man. But not one mendier of the Na
tional Guard, without coaching, can
military knowledge per
Tho National
equal hi
turning to hm station.
Guard system of Delaware neods
forming,
of the State,
county furmers, boli
reformed out of existence, and tho
salary of the Adjutant-General be saved
to the State. If tho Adjutant-Gen
eral's department must be »leased in
■ery election, the law should give him
the power to uppoint officers."
A reporter of Tho Gazette called
on Adjutant-General Hart, and
quested a statement concerning the
election of Capt. Wiswell.
"I ha
the Adjutant-General stntod.
responsible to Acting Governor Watson
alone for my actions in the military."
By this remark he intimated that he
did uot c
lished in the Chronicle.
But a National Guard officer
found who would talk, lie s ta tod that,
far as he understood the situation,
the meeting at which Capt. Wiswell
elected major was not regularly
hold. Ho had been informed that the
office
uniform,
that
General Hart was not in favor of sanc
tioning the action of the meeting. At
it would establish a precodent.
It is believed the matter is in the
hands of Acting Governor Watson, and
whatever orders he should give will be
carried out by Adjutant-General Hart,
The position of major is still vacant.
ell as the political policy
Many Kont and Sussex
it should be
reply to make to that, "
"1 am
tho story pub
full dross military
required by law. and for
nderstood Adjutant
•o not i
be
THE COUNT NY
!ïi
wi
T. Mule.
Only a country editor, whose life is "pied"
at last,
As out upon the futurity his genial soul is
t.
The linal "form" of life's made up; and the
edition is "
That those who _
tilings that he has done.
"Wrong fonts" there
fyet i
his great desire for right and
yearning shine;
And with his humble paragraphs and local
notes galore.
I note the kindly throbbing heart tbut felt
for those lieartsoro.
ntry editor, wh
rend and
, ami errors, too—
what
t li
his
Only a
And closed f*
fold the marble brow,
lie's written kind words of those who'
died for twenty ye
ot that he to-duy should have
the meed of tears.
Obituaries may be short—perhaps a "stick"
toiling's
the sunken eyes, and
And tis t
Which tell the story of his life and how his
heart wi
But in tho Judinne
Book some deeds ho
fords—"The
h;
jrodit for
d aureole the
Will Rhino
Country Editor!"
—Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Vegetarians say
we should eat no meat. Dr. J. A.
Deane says we should eat of all kinds
of nourishing food,
and if the stomach
and bowels are lazy
and rebel we should
^ Dr.
Deane's
Dyspepsia j
greatest authority
diseases of the
digestive organs.
•yspcpsla PIHa aid elites
diTj. a.
Pills.
Dr. Deane's D
id
* ;
■i
ept
on. N. Y.
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iu
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