Daily Republican., 1881-05-16
Too Modest by Half.
From the Newark Ledger.


Mr.. Kenney, of the p, w. & b., says
the Newark people might have had all
the trains they wanted long ago if they
had only made their wants known.
This is just what we suspected.
1.-THE fault, dear Brutus, isnot in ourstars,
But In ourselves that we are underliDgs."
We occupy one of the most delightful
and salubrious spots on the habitable
globe. Our hills are bold and breezy,
our valleys charming and fruitful, our
streams sparkling and joyous. The hum
of industry is everywhere about us. We
have a paper mill, and an iron mil. and
any number of flour mills. To the south
of us just little way is an iron mine,
and to the north of us the tiinty rock is
being baked and ground to powder from
which to make the smooth white porce-
lain. We have an excellent college, u
first rate academy, good public school y
and several private ones of high charaC
ter. Our people are an intelligent, a
reading people; but we havn't like
Dover, post office that cost all the way
from $4,000 to $l24,00O. Well, we
never asked for it, we are too modest.
We send off more freight and paSsen-
gers than Ellkton does. and yet she has
more railroad facilities than we have.
We never asked for any, we are too
modest. The p. w. & b. would have
run nearer to us, but we never asked it;
we are too modest, We have the most
prudent, the most industrious, and the
handsOmest wives on this green earth;
and yet we never had q newspaper un-
til recently to tell any body about it
we are too modest.
=. Our old maids are the most inSinua-
ting and enticing that ever were heard
of; they are ten times better than the
wives are in any other community.
They set the old bachelors and widow
ers, who chance to come among us, per-
tectly wild and send them away as
crazy as looms; they wont have them,
they are too modest
And as for our young maidens, they
are as beautiful as vision and as sweet
~ an August peach: but we have never
said so before; we We're too modest.
And now if you outsiders don't believe
this ust come to the next Delaware
College commencement and see for
yourselves.
AT the very last commencement, the
President OF the Board of Trustees, who
it might he supposed, was as hard aS Il
piece Of his own railroad iron, didn't
face that charming and beautiful array
in the oratorv more than ten minutes
before he had a palpitaton Of the heart.
Perhaps you will say: "Can such
things be, and overcome US like sum-
mer cloud, without our special Won
der"' Even So-no doubt of it, Now
at last the papers verify it. Newark is
beginning to be appreciated.
Senator Cooch, VINO livesin our neigh
borhood, has discovered our worh, and
did his best at the last session OF the
Legislature, to bring our town into no.
tice and make it q great railroad centre.
In fact everything was to come within
a half q mile of us except the oceanic
canal; and that would have been rsqllir-
ed 10 make u circuit around this way,
if Uncle Sammy Townsend hadn't been
deSirous of a salt bath; and rs he is old
and stiff, and can't conveniently 60 to
the ocean, it was thought right and
proper to bring the ocean to him. The
canal will, therefore, run through the
lower part of Uncle Sammy's garden.
But everything else we either have or
ran have if we are nOo too modest.